Submitted on Tuesday 1st November 2016
Rejected on Friday 4th November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Uphold the law that a child who assists in commercial work is employed for this.
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”, and yet in many situations such as in research, Child Employment Officers do not uphold this law.
Hundreds of thousands of children younger than 13, are employed in the UK in commercial research, testing, marketing and consultancy (ISBN1845298802). Child Employment Officers do not give them the protection they give children in performance work such as modelling & acting. Irrespective of the above Act the Officers do not regard them as being employed (NNCEE). This and the lack of protection undermine their rights as workers and can result in them being mistreated & deprived of pay (ACAS).
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government and Parliament are not responsible for enforcing the law. That is the responsibility of the courts, which are independent.
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