Child Labour Regulation Act of 2019

“Childhood should be about learning, growing up and discovering the world, not earning a wage. Even where rules exist, young people can still face pressure to work instead of focusing on school. Raising the minimum employment age to 18 draws a clear line. Education comes first, and every child deserves the chance to finish it without economic pressure shaping their future.”

“Although the State needs to prevent exploitation, especially when minors are involved, we do not believe that raising the employment age to be the solution. There are already restrictions and safeguards in place: forbidding a 16 or 17 y.o. from working when they, for example, already left school or completed a vocational course, only increases the risk to encourage the plague of NEET. We obviously encourage our youth to study as much as possible but we cannot not take into account that some of them simply do not want to or are just not very academically inclined. For this reason, although we understand the noble intentions behind this bill, ADFR's voting against it.”

“Employment under appropriate conditions can teach responsibility, discipline, and valuable skills. Rather than banning all work until the age of 18, sensible regulations should protect young people from exploitation and hazardous occupations while still allowing them to gain experience and contribute to society.”

“While constraining child labour is generally a noble idea, we believe that limiting the ability of the youth to perform work with restrictions actually hurts them by hampering their opportunities to make money during the summer break and accumulate potentially relevant job experience that will help them in the future.”

“Early work keeps Teenagers out of crime. Keeping children permanently in education only leads to an educational bourgeoisie and the decline of important occupations in the craft sector. We have to oppose that. Teenagers should work as soon as they want to and are able to do so.”

“Children's are the tomorrow of our nation so we believe that increasing the age of minimum employment to 18 would ensure the health, good environment , supports education of children so saxenheim Republic supports this proposal for the good and healthier tomorrow”