CHILD LABOUR

• Children below the age of 15 years are not permitted to work.
• Children between the ages of 15 and 18 years may not perform work that places their well-being, education, or physical and mental health at risk.

The Department of Employment and Labour and the state prosecutor will be primarily responsible for enforcing the rules about child labour. To employ children is a criminal offence and comes with a jail sentence of up to 6 years.

FORCED LABOUR

No one may force employees to work (for example, to redo and perform work because the employee made a mistake and produced unacceptable work). This is a criminal offence.