Employment of Adolescent

1. Employment of Adolescent
“Welcome to our presentation”

2. Consist of Our Group members
Group Members Name ID
Md.Sanaul Haque M20190202383
Fariha Jarin Khan Mouri M20190202355
Ashutosh Mondol M20190202362
Shafayet Hossain Zihan M20190202343
Nusrat Jahan M20190202350

3. • Introduction
• Definition
• Major Reasons for Employment of Adolescent
• Consequences of Child Labour
• Statistics on Working Child Sector in Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 (Section 34-44)
• Observation Real Scenario
• Case Study
• Implementation
Contents of our presentation

4. Introduction
There are more than 52 million adolescents in Bangladesh. In a country of
young demographic, they make up 1/3rd of the country's total population.
Youth employment encompasses youths between the ages of fifteen and
twenty-four working part-time or full-time for money, outside their family.
Youths younger than fifteen working for money are regarded as child
laborers; such labor is prohibited in many regions.
Prevalence of Child Labor is a common scenario in most of the least
developed and developing countries, and Bangladesh is no exception. At the
age of schooling and joyful childhood days, many children are compelled to
work for their family and livelihood.

5. • Child : 0-14 year of age; Sec 2(63)
• Adolescent : 14-18 year of age; Sec 2(8)
• Adult : Completed 18 year of age; Sec 2(36)
Definition

6.  High incidence of population.
 Cheap labor.
 Lack of awareness on the consequences of child
labor among parents/employer.
 Poor but big family size.
 Lack of sufficient educational infrastructure.
 Parents don’t estimate opportunity cost of education.
 Lack of support and service of school.
Major Reasons for Employment of
Adolescent

7. Consequences of Child Labour :-
Increase Adult Unemployment Rate
Physical Injury of Children
Perpetual Poverty
Increase in Child Marriage
Obstacle to rapid economic development
Ill-health and mal-nutrition
Obstacle to attain MDG
Disruption of social peace and security

8. Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 (Employment of Adolescent):
Section 34: Prohibition of Employment of Children and Adolescent:
1. No child shall be employed to work in any establishment.
2.No adolescent shall be employed to work any establishment, Unless-
a) A certificate of fitness in the prescribed form granted to him by a registered medical practitioner
b)Must carry certificate as a token.
Section 35: Prohibition of Certain Agreement with Regard to Children:
No person being the parent or guardian having legal custody of a child shall made an agreement to allow the service of the
child to be utilized in any employment.
Section 36: Dispute with Regard to Age:
If any question arises as to whether a person is a child or an adolescent, it shall be resolved by his birth certificate, school
certificate or certificate issued by a registered physician.
Section 37: Certificates of Fitness:
A registered medical practitioner shall examine such person as to whether such young person is fit to work and ascertain his
fitness for work in an establishment.
Section 38: Power to Require Medical Examination:
Power to require medical examination is mentioned in section 38.
Section 39: Declaration of List of Hazardous Work and Prohibition of Employment of Adolescent in Certain Work:
1.The government shall declare the list of hazardous work from time to time.
2. No adolescent shall be allowed to give employment in such work which has been declared by the government as hazardous.

9. Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 (Employment of Adolescent):
Section 40: Employment of Adolescent on Dangerous Machines or Hazardous Work:
No adolescent shall work at any machine unless--
a) He has been fully instructed of the dangers arise by the machine and the precautions to be observed.
b) Sufficient training in work at the machine or is under adequate supervision of a person who has knowledge
and experience of the machine.
Section 41: Working Hours for Adolescent:
1. No adolescent to work in any factory or mine more than five hours in a day and thirty hours in any week including
over time thirty six hours in a week in any factory or mine.
3. No adolescent shall be allowed to work between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.
8. No adolescent shall work in more than one establishment on any day.
Section42 : Prohibition of Employment of Adolescent in Underground and Under Water Work:
No adolescent shall be employed in any underground or underwater.
Section 43: Notice of Periods of Work for Children:
In every establishment adolescent worker shall be laid down by rules, a notice of specified period of work and the
period shown in the notice board.
Section 44: Exception in Certain Cases of Employment of Children or Handicapped Children:
A child who has completed 12 years may be employed in such a light work. which is not dangerous of his health and
development or shall not interfere with his education and No handicapped worker shall be employed in dangerous machine or
hazardous worker.

10. Observation Real Scenario
 Even though every industry denied that there is no child/adolescent worker
in the industry most of them usually employed many child.
 They don’t make any agreement with the parent/guardian of a children before
appointing them any work.
 No certificate is given on the basis of identify if the person is a child/an
adolescent.
 No certificate of fitness is issued by them to the worker.
 Most of the industry don’t give proper training to the workers before engaging
any kind of hazardous work.
 In most of the industry adolescent are working daily 8 hours with maintain shift 9
am to 9 pm. Total number of working hour is 72(8+2=12*6) per week.
 They don’t provide any notice of periods of work for child/adolescent.
 Most of the industries doesn’t employed any handicapped children.

11. Case Study
 Md. Hossain, a garments labor, he carry garments stuff in factory. lives in a slum with his parents who migrated from a village in
Mymensingh district. He is 12 years old and has been doing this job for about 5 years. His father can't work due to old age which
has forced Hossain to come to work and to leave school when he was in class four. He does not know his mother's educational
level. He gives all of his earnings to his family. Hossain works from 8 am to 12 noon, earns a daily average of Tk. 70, wants to
work in a vegetable selling shop and has no intention to study in future, if opportunity arises.
 Md. Abdur Rahman, aged 12, worker in a sweeper of garments in Mirpur, came from a village in Faridpurto Dhaka for livelihood. His
father is dead and mother is a housewife. He has 5 brothers and sisters. He is the eldest in the family and that's why he has come to Dhaka
to work so that he would be able to maintain his mother and the younger brothers and sisters. He works from 8 am to 6 pm.
 Md. Mobin Rahman, aged 13, workers in a garments canteen. He came from a village in juri to Dhaka with the expectation oflearning a
good trade. His father is a peasant and mother a housewife. There is no want in his family. Even then his parents has sent him to work
afraid he may be spoiled if remains home idly. He studied up to class two and his mother up to dlass three. He works daily from 8am to 6
pm, earns Tk.1200-1300 per month (he is provided with food and shelter by the mahajan), not eager to study at a later period and only
wishes to go abroad after leaning this trade.
 Md. Kamrul, aged 12, lives with his parents in Mirpur, Dhaka. He has 3 brothers and 2 sisters. He has been working in Dhaka's local bus
for almost 3 years. He had stopped his studies according to his own will when he was in class five. His mother is only literate. For the
entry into the job he was motivated by his friends who work in different professions. His parents neither permitted nor prohibited his work.
He works daily from 7 am to the next day's 7 am, has to take food and sleep in the bus during working hours and earns almost Tk.250 per
day.

12. Working Children; aged 5-
17
7.4 million
Working Children; aged 5-14 4.7 million
Child Laborers; aged 5-14 3.2 million
Children engaged in
hazardous labor; aged 5-17
1.3 million
Child Domestic workers 421000
Percentage of children (aged
5-14) engaged in child labor
National Slum Tribal
12.8 19.1 17.6
Statistics on Working Child Sector in Bangladesh
15%
46%
23%
13%
3%
Agriculture
Construction,Transport and RMG
Street Hawker
Domestic Worker
Other
Ref: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, National Child Labor Survey

13. Implementation
 Providing appropriate training.
 Monitoring and giving publicity to best practice on the
employment of adolescent act.
 Encouraging the development of policies by undertaking to
promote the aims of the Convention.
 Establishing special complaints procedure.
 Adopting appropriate measures to improve the educational
infrastructure.
 Taking into account in national programmers of
job creation.

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