Example in Action: Preventing Child Labor Reoccurrence in a Manufacturing Environment
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Impact Limited’s Operational Procedures for Remediation of Child Labour in Industrial Contexts provides detailed guidance on both improving victim situations and preventing recurrence of child labor when found in a manufacturing environment, including:
- Providing a stipend to the child’s family to make up for the lost income if the child’s family can be contacted.
- Offering the child’s job to another member of the family who is of legal age to work.
- Providing alternative income generation opportunities to the child’s parents or adult relatives.
- Ensuring that the child attends school or an alternative educational facility, paying associated fees as needed and tracking the child until they are of age to work.
- Providing the child with a training or apprenticeship opportunity when they are of legal age for such programs and committing to provide the job back once they are of full legal working age.
- Linking the child to educational, developmental, psychosocial, and other services provided by the government or NGOs.
- If the child has been living away from their family, reuniting the child with the family while ensuring that the family can provide a protective environment and applicable services.
- For children of the minimum age for work, eliminating dangerous work activities from the child’s job and closely monitoring the child’s work on an ongoing basis.
- Helping the child identify other safe income-earning opportunities, if there is no feasible way to reduce hazards in the current work environment.
- Finding a way for the child to make up for the lost income through other earning opportunities, a stipend, or family interventions, in the event working hours are reduced.
DOL welcomes examples of good practices
to address child labor and forced labor.
Email us at GlobalKids@dol.gov.