As per the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 a 'week' means a period of 7 days beginning at midnight of
ASunday
BMonday
CSaturday
DThursday
Answer:
C. Saturday
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Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
- It aims to eradicate any kind of child abuse in the form of employment and prohibit the engagement of children in any kind of hazardous employment, who have not completed 14 years of age.
- The Act prohibits the employment of children in certain occupations and processes.
- The occupations which are prohibited are mentioned in Part III of this Act.
Hours and period of work
- The Part 1 of this act defines 'Week' on the basis of working days by the child.
- According to this a "week" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on
Saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the Inspector - Every child who is employed in an establishment shall mandatorily be allowed a holiday each week. The holiday must be for a whole day.
- The day of the week must be decided on which it would be a holiday for the employees of the establishment and the notice regarding the same must be exhibited in a conspicuous place of the establishment.
- The notice should be of a permanent nature and should not be altered more than once in three months.
- As per the Act, no child employee shall be allowed to work in any establishment in excess of the number of hours that have been decided on and prescribed for such an establishment or class of establishment.
- The number of hours shall be fixed by the establishment and the child employee must not be allowed to work for more than three hours without a break of one hour.
- The total number of hours of work for a child employee shall not exceed six hours.
- Six hours shall also include one hour of interval.
- According to the Act, the employer cannot make a child employee work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. and no employer must permit the child employee to work overtime.
- If a child has already worked in an establishment in a day, then such a child must not be permitted to work in another establishment on the same day.