{"id":85298,"date":"2015-04-04T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/85298\/say-no-to-child-labour\/"},"modified":"2015-04-04T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T08:00:55","slug":"say-no-to-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2015\/04\/04\/say-no-to-child-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Say no to child labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research indicates that of children found to be working almost 60 per cent did so in order to help their parents financially.<br \/>\nThis clearly constitutes child labour and is, therefore, unacceptable.<br \/>\nChild work is defined as a child performing menial tasks such as mowing the lawn, washing dishes and generally helping in the home.<br \/>\nThese tasks should not be exploitative, hazardous or inappropriate for the child\u2019s age or detrimental to the child\u2019s social, physical, mental, spiritual or moral development.<br \/>\nAccording to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, it is a criminal offence to employ a child younger than 15, except in the performing arts, with a permit from the Department of Labour.<br \/>\nA child aged 15 to 18 may not be employed to do work inappropriate for their age, or work that places them at risk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='870204ec2caac44bdaf843af98f0df7a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 4, the country will commemorate Child Labour Day, to give a clear distinction between child work, which is acceptable, and child labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":85299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[3310,7028],"class_list":["post-85298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-abuse","tag-child-labour-day"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["abuse","Child labour day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}