Youth employment protection

The term youth labor protection stands for political measures for the personal protection of children and young people in working life. The protection of young people at work is thus both a sub-area of labor law or occupational safety as well as the protection of young people .

history

From a historical point of view, provisions on the protection of young people at work are the oldest measures in the area of statutory labor protection law. An example of this is the Prussian “ Regulation on the Employment of Young Workers in Factories ” of March 9, 1839.

Instruments

Instruments of youth employment protection are or can be:

Prohibitions, e.g. B. the general prohibition of child labor and possibly young people below a legally stipulated minimum age or the prohibition of certain occupations
special rights of children and young people, e.g. B. with regard to working hours or in the context of company interest representation

Youth employment protection is the subject of national legislation (in Germany: Youth Employment Protection Act , in Austria: Child and Youth Employment Act), legislation in the field of EU social policy and international conventions (Art. 32 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child , Art. 10.3 of the International Covenant on Economic , social and cultural rights ).

literature

Brox, Rüthers, Hennsler: Labor law. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-17-019955-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ On the protection of young people at work and child labor up to the First World War and their legal regulation cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Department I: From the time when the Reich was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881), Volume 3: Workers' protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1996; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890), Volume 3: Workers' protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 1998; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904), Volume 3, worker protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 2005.

[1] On the protection of young people at work and child labor up to the First World War and their legal regulation cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Department I: From the time when the Reich was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881), Volume 3: Workers' protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1996; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890), Volume 3: Workers' protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 1998; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904), Volume 3, worker protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 2005.