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By Daniel Ulman toc Commettee: International Labor Organitation. Topic: Child Labour. Country: The Federal Republic of Germany.

__At what age can work childs now ?__

When we speak about children working, most of the people think about the kids of the Third World, that are exploited working from the morning to the night.

This extreme form of work is totally forbidden in Germany. In 1939 it was a reform in children working at factories. In Germany, is directly forbidden to work at 9 years because german people would use them in military services in a future. In the last 160 years were improved by some laws, and some working conditions and the last and the biggest reform was in 1997. The children above 15 and less than 18, can work in some works (like waiter) for 4 weeks, except of Sundays and statutory holidays, which are normaly foreseen as a resting period. The days theyr work, they can only work the time they want, but with a limit of 6 hours per day.

From there emerged the Labour Protection Act applies to youth and young children. Calling the Nine years children behind 15 and young children less than 18 years. The law forbids the employment of Nine with some exceptions:
 * Occasional use in household chores, youth facilities and support for the integration of disabled people.
 * Measures to educate children (Official)
 * The care of them (use as a therapeutic)
 * Introduction to the world of work (work placements during school years)
 * With parental consent, finishing the living years 13 can hold some light work that does not threaten the security, development and health of him and under very strict.
 * Work should not negative affect school attendance or school performance.

Working time must not exceed the 2 hours per day (in family businesses and farm three hours), more than 5 days a week between 8 and 18 pm and after the school. Finally, there are exceptions for children's theatre, music, footage, and radio and television productions. These works have to be ordered by the employer before the competent authority patterns are established within the legal frameworks. Federal law regulates only minimum standars.

Regulation on the protection of child labour that describes the activities permitted: Children over the age of 13 can only be used delivery of newspaper, magazines, free newspaper and leaflets, in homes and in agriculture.

There is also activities in gardens errands, keep babies, keep pets, school help and some others things. Non.commercial activities and events of churches, religious communities, associations, clubs and parties. Employment will be slight, according to 5, paragraph 3 of the youth employment law and appropiate for them. The labour activities to which paragraph 1 are neither simple nor suitable for children over 13, who are still in school. Especially is the regular duties involve handling weight of 7.5 kg or sporadically handling of weights over 10 kg.

__Bibliography:__ __[]__ [] [|http://www.ilo.org] [] [] Talking with German people.