LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

What are the rights of a Filipino child

Understand the Restrictions of employing minors

Find out the worst forms of child labor in the Philippines

THE RIGHTS OF A FILIPINO CHILD

RIGHTS OF A FILIPINO CHILD

What is a child? A person who is

eighteen (18) years old or younger

A person who is above eighteen years old but is unable to fully take care or protect himself from abuse, discrimination, exploitation, neglect, or cruelty because of physical or mental disability or condition

RIGHTS OF A FILIPINO CHILD

1To be born. To have a name and nationality

2To be free. To have a family who will take care of me

3To have a good education

4To develop my potentials

5

To have enough food, shelter, a healthy and active body

RIGHTS OF A FILIPINO CHILD

6To be given the opportunity for play and leisure

7

To be given protection against abuse, danger & violence brought by war & conflict

8To live in a peaceful community

9

To be defended and assisted by the government

10To be able to express my own views

Role of the state

To provide special protection to children from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, and discrimination, and other conditions prejudicial to their development including child labor and its worst forms

To provide sanctions for their commissions & carry out programs for prevention and deterrence of & crisis intervention insituations of child abuse, exploitation and discrimination

Role of the state

To intervene on behalf of the child when the parent, guardian, teacher, or person having care or custody of the child fails or is unable to protect the child against abuse, exploitation and discrimination, or when such acts against the child are committed by the said parent guardian, teacher, or person having care and custody of the same

To protect and rehabilitate children gravely threatened or endangered by circumstance which affect or will affect their survival and normal development and over which they have no control

EMPLOYABLE AGE

No child below 15 years of age shall be employed.

Any person between 15 and 18 years of age may be employed for such number of hours and such periods of the day

No child below 18 years of age shall be employed in hazardous or deleterious nature of work

EMPLOYABLE AGE

Child works directly under the sole responsibility of his parents/ legal guardian

Employment shall not endangers life, safety, health and morals or impairs the child normal development

The child shall be provided with the prescribed education

EMPLOYABLE AGE

Child shall work for not more than 20 hours a week

The work shall not be more than 4 hours at any given day

The child does not work between 8pm and 6am the following day

A work permit from DOLE shall be secured in exceptional cases where any child may be employed

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in PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT

The employment contract is concluded by the child’s parent or legal guardian, with express agreement of the child concerned

A child below 15 years of age maybe allowed to work for not more than 20 hours a week

A child 15 years of age but below 18 shall not be allowed to work for more than 8 hours a day an in no case beyond 40 hours a week

Rules & regulations

Rules & regulations

No child below 15 years of age or 15 years of age but below 18 shall be allowed to work between 10pm and 6am of the following day

No child below 18 years of age shall be employed as a model in any advertisement directly or indirectly promoting the following:

alcoholic beverages intoxicating drinks tobacco and its by-products gambling any form of violence or

pornography

All forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery

sales and trafficking of children

debt bondage and serfdom

forced or compulsory labor (including recruitment of children for use in armed conflict)

Use , procuring, offering or exposing of a child for prostitution, for the production of pornography, or for pornographic performances

Use, procuring or offering of a child for illegal or illicit activities, including production and trafficking of dangerous drugs and volatile substances prohibited under existing laws

Work, which by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is hazardous or likely to be harmful to health, safety, or morals of children

Debases, degrades or demeans the intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as a human being

Expose the child to physical, emotional , or sexual abuse, or is found to be highly stressful psychologically or may prejudice morals

Performed underground, underwater, or at dangerous heights

Involves the use of dangerous machinery, equipment, and tools such as power-driven or explosive power-actuated tools

Performed in an unhealthy environment exposing the child to hazardous working conditions, elements, substances, co-agents, or processes involving ionizing, radiation, flammable substances, fire, noxious components, and the like, or to extreme temperatures, noise levels or vibrations

Performed under particularly difficult situations

Exposes the child to biological agents such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoans, nematodes, and other parasites

Involves the manufacture or handling of explosives and other pyrotechnic products

Penal provisions

Violations to R.A. 9231