Investigate the use of minors by the enterprise
Bac GiangViet Yen district police were asked to investigate the use of underage workers by the enterprise in connection with the case of 4 workers raping a 13-year-old girl.
On the morning of April 4, Mr. Tran Van Ha, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Bac Giang province, said that he had asked the provincial police and the police of Viet Yen district to speed up the investigation into the use of unsuccessful laborers. year at a company in the area, report before 7/4. The districts and the industrial park management board review the use of juvenile workers in enterprises throughout the province.
The move related to the case of 4 male workers at TK Tech Vina Co., Ltd. in Viet Yen district, aged between 16 and 19, were arrested by the police of Bac Giang province on March 23 with charges of girl rape 13 years old.
Police said that a 16-year-old male worker, from Thai Nguyen, had an affair with a 13-year-old local girl, a colleague of the same company. This worker forced the girl to have sex in the motel room on the evening of March 12. The next afternoon, the young woman went to the room of a young man in Ha Giang and was raped by him and two compatriots.
“The authorities are still investigating, if there is a violation, we will strictly handle it,” Ha affirmed.
The national survey on child labor in 2018, published in December 2020, showed that more than 1.7 million children nationwide were involved in economic activities. More than one million of them are child laborers (from 5 to 17 years old), more than half work in heavy, hazardous, dangerous and illegal conditions for their age, exceeding the prescribed hours.
84% of child labor in Vietnam is concentrated in rural areas and more than half of them work in agriculture, forestry and fishery; services, industry and construction; about 40.5% of children are unpaid household labor.
The Labor Code 2019 stipulates that a minor employee is a person under 18 years of age. Persons aged full 13 to under 18 years old are only allowed to do some light work according to specific regulations. Business owners employing minors must have working conditions, such as arranging jobs suitable for their health so as not to affect their physical, intellectual and personality development; must have the consent of the parent or guardian; make a separate monitoring book, record full name, date of birth, current job, results of periodical health checks and present it at the request of a competent state agency.
Enterprises employing employees under the age of 15 must enter into a written contract with that person and his/her legal representative; arranging working hours does not affect study time; have a health certificate from a competent medical facility certifying that the employee is suitable for the job and have a periodical health check at least once every 6 months.
Hong Chieu
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