Submitted on Wednesday 19th October 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 25th October 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
To use the law to protect all the children employed in the UK.
The Children & Young Persons Act 1933 says “A person who assists in a trade or occupation carried on for profit shall be deemed to be employed notwithstanding that he receives no reward for his labour”. This means children used or working in for-profit market-research & product testing are employed.
Employers say 100,000s of children younger than 13 years are employed in the UK to undertake commercial work in market-research, product testing, consultancy, quality control and design (https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=children+market+research). These children are not provided with the sort of protection that children employed in performance work such as modelling & acting have & in many cases they are deprived of payment for the work.
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