Employment of minors: rules and restrictions

During the holidays, adolescents often find various part-time jobs, which they later plan to combine with their studies. While working for students in Moscow is already a common phenomenon, enrollment in schoolchildren is a rather delicate process, with its own characteristics and pitfalls. Let's spend a little educational program on this difficult subject.

Governing Law

The employment of minors is regulated by chapter 42 of the LC RF and other related articles. According to them, you can hire people who are already sixteen years old. In special cases, to perform light work that is not capable of causing harm to health, it is permissible to enter into a contract with fifteen-year-olds provided that the candidate has already completed the training or continues it on a different form from full-time. Concerning the fourteen-year-old law, it states that work for adolescents is possible in the case of consent from one of the parents (or from the trustee) in their free time from school. As for participation in filming, theater performances and concert activity, there are no age restrictions, but there are a large number of specific rules regarding the organization of the process, which require strict adherence.

Working Conditions and Restrictions

Employment of minors implies the issuance of an insurance certificate and work record book, which is regulated by Article 66 of the LC RF. In this case, the contract can be formalized as urgent for a certain period (for example, during the summer holidays), and as a standard perpetual. Until the age of 18, such employees must necessarily undergo an annual medical examination at the expense of the company's employer. We list the main essential rules:

• It is forbidden to engage in shift work;
• A teenager can not be dismissed solely on the initiative of the employer without the consent of the commission for juvenile affairs and labor inspection ;
• The opportunity of registration in combination is excluded;
• It is impossible to write full financial responsibility in the contract.

Among other things, the legislation defined areas in which the employment of minors is unacceptable. These include production with harmful and hazardous to health and life conditions - for example, underground work; As well as chemical industry, metallurgy, machine building, gambling, nightclubs, activities related to tobacco products and spirits. The complete list is quite extensive, and we recommend that it be carefully studied. A separate paragraph specifies the length of the working time. It, of course, is shortened. Teenagers up to the age of 16 can work for a maximum of 24 hours during the week, but if they have reached this age, it is already 35 hours. When combined with study standards are reduced by half. In this case, one shift should not exceed 5 hours at 15-16 years and 7 hours at 16-18 years. So, the employment of minors requires increased attention and preliminary study of the legal framework relating to this issue. Remember that this is a big responsibility for you.