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Employment of children - 14 years old

Type of work

May be employed in light work as long as it is not on the prohibited employment list below:

Prohibited Employments

In a cinema, theatre or discotheque, dance hall or night club, (except in connection with a performance given entirely by children OR under the terms and conditions of an entertainment licence).
To sell or deliver alcohol except in sealed containers.
To deliver milk or fuel oils.
In a commercial kitchen.
To collect or sort refuse.
In any work more than three metres above ground, or in the case of internal work three metres above floor level.
In employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
In work involving exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable to children.
In telephone sales.
In a slaughterhouse or in a butcher's shop or other place connected with the killing/butchery of livestock or the preparation of meat for sale.
As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade, or in any other place used for the purpose of public amusement by automatic machines, games of chance, or skill etc.
In personal care of residents of any residential home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult.
To collect money or canvass door to door, except under the supervision of an adult.
Before the hour of 7am.

Hours that can be worked

No child shall start working before 7am or finish after 7pm.
On days that pupils are required to attend school, they can work for one hour before school and up to two hours after school. However, they must not work for more than two hours in total on any school day.
On Sundays, children can work for a maximum of two hours.

On all other days when the school is not open, children can work for a total of five hours. However, they must have a break, of at least one hour after three hours work.

The maximum number of hours that can be working during a school week is 12.

The maximum number of hours that can be worked per week is during school holidays is 25 hours.