Do Laws on School-age Workers Need to Be Simplified?

The law governing how much and what kind of work school-age children in England and Wales can do is too complicated and confused, according to the TUC and NSPCC. The two organisations are calling on the Government to simplify the rules.

In a new report - Too much too young: Sorting out the law on teenagers at work - the two organisations detail the legal provisions which determine the conditions under which workers aged 13-16, who are still at school, may work. The TUC and the NSPCC believe ... (532 more words)

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