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