Child Workforce Participation
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsStrength: StrongProposed by: The Overmind
The World Assembly,
Recognizing that child labor, when well parameterized, can be a learning experience and an early chance to develop qualifications and familiarity with the workforce,
Accepting that, under certain circumstances, child labor is a necessary source of income for families otherwise unable to meet their financial obligations, such as in impoverished regions,
Resolving that whether child labor is a rewarding pastime or a necessary evil, children represent a vulnerable population that must be protected,
Hereby enacts as follows,
- Defines, for the purposes of this resolution
- Child as any living denizen of a member nation, regardless of citizenship status, below the member nation’s age of majority,
- Workforce as the sum total of all positions providing opportunities for work in any member nation,
- Home economics as labor done on behalf of the child’s own family on property belonging to that family,
- Informed assent as the voluntary agreement of a child to do something, the nature of which they have demonstrated a full understanding of given age-appropriate explanations,
- Guardian as the entity holding legal responsibility for the well-being of a child,
- Informed consent as the voluntary agreement of a guardian to allow a child to do something, the nature of which they have demonstrated a full understanding of given a complete and clear description,
- Workplace as the property on which the child will be employed and all development of that property, including both interior and exterior,
- Ordinary risk as the level of risk normally assumed by a child in the course of their usual daily activities, and
- Mandated reporter as one who has a duty to the guardian and the state to report information of legal interest, related to the child’s safety, through state-defined legal channels,
- Restricts,
- Children eligible to enter the workforce, with the exception of home economics, to those children having reached at least two-thirds the age of majority, and who can freely give their informed assent to work with the informed consent of their guardian, and
- Workplaces eligible for a child to work to those which pose no more than ordinary risk to the child’s life or welfare,
- Requires that workplaces,
- Have policies in place to ensure that a child they employ faces no more than ordinary risk to their life or welfare while on the premises or in the course of their duties,
- Act as mandated reporters of any threat to the child’s life or welfare, including those originating from the child themself, and
- Assign no duties to the child that would be inherently damaging to the child’s life or welfare beyond ordinary risk, or that would otherwise be illegal, including those activities illegal due to the child’s age,
- Forbids, in consideration of any child’s entry into the workforce,
- The participation of any child in armed conflict,
- Interference with the child’s ability to complete their education in a timely, developmentally appropriate, and effective manner,
- Reduction of the responsibilities of any workplace toward a child that it would have toward any adult worker, including pay rate, pay schedule, provision of breaks, and recourse for violations of the child's rights as defined by the World Assembly and the member nation, whichever is stricter, and
- Mandates that member nations,
- Observe all worker's rights in equal measure for children as it would for any other participant in the workforce, up to and including litigation brought on behalf of the child by the child's guardian.