Minimum age

Minimum Age The legal minimum age for employment is 15 years of age (Section 44).

2 Domestic regulations of every State shall fix a minimum working age, as well as working conditions and hours.

Minimum Marital Age

MINIMUM AGE FOR RECRUITMENT

MINIMUM AGE FOR CONTRACTING MARRIAGE

(a) A lower minimum age

The Republic of Korea had recently raised the minimum working age and prohibited the employment of those under 18 years of age in hazardous work.

MINIMUM AGE FOR PARTICIPATION IN HOSTILITIES

198. Tunisia has ratified Convention No. 138, 1973, as it previously ratified Conventions No. 58, the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936 No. 59, the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937 No. 112, the Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959 and No. 123, the Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965.

ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138).

Gabon had ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention No. 138, which set the minimum age for employment at 14, but its own legislation improved upon that by making 16 the minimum age.

In Bahrain, the minimum age was 19 years.

The early marriageable age, the minimum age for employment and the age of criminal responsibility are matters of concern.

The law recognized several important principles, such as the fixation of minimum rates of wages, the introduction of a legally defined working day, the minimum age of employment and the concept of tripartism.

More working age men than working age women died during that period.

There is no minimum age for retirement but the age for optional retirement remains 55 years.

The Committee regrets the State party's lack of commitment to increase the minimum working age of children from 14 to 16, since the age of 16 is when basic education is normally concluded.

Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (No. 138)

The minimum age of criminal responsibility is often too low.

For unhygienic or dangerous occupations the minimum age is 18.

(i) Tunisia and the minimum age for admission to employment

182. Under the Danish Working Environment Act, a minimum age of 15 generally applies for working children and young people it is, however, also possible to set a higher minimum age for work whose nature or the circumstances in which it is performed may pose a risk to the safety, health or development of young people.

150. The minimum age for taking a job was examined earlier.

The minimum age for sexual consent invariably gives rise to confusion.

(b) The differential minimum age of marriage of women and men

45. The Committee is concerned about the failure to provide for a minimum age for sexual consent and the absence of harmonization between the age for the completion of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

689. The Committee is concerned about the failure to provide for a minimum age for sexual consent and the absence of harmonization between the age for the completion of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

quot 15. The Committee is concerned about the failure to provide for a minimum age for sexual consent and the absence of harmonization between the age for the completion of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

Regulating the working conditions of young people who have reached the minimum age of admission to employment (duration of work, pay, holidays, night work and medical checks)

21. The minimum age for recruitment should be set at 18 years unless national legislation stipulates a lower age.

267. The minimum age for admission to paid employment is 15 years.

Under international law, however, the minimum age for military service was 15.

PWA Population of Working Age

Has reached 18 years of age (with some exceptions for this minimum age with regard to graduates of vocational training)

Which, she wondered, was the actual minimum age for marriage, 18 or 21?

b) men and women are protected by the minimum age requirement for marriage

The State party is urged to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility.

There are no statutes establishing a minimum age for consent to sexual relations.

Ms. Saiga enquired whether regulations existed to set the minimum age of employment.

Most of the countries which fix a minimum age for work are European.

(i) The raising of the minimum age for bearing firearms to 25 years

It is also concerned that the minimum age of marriage for girls, fixed by law at 17, may be reduced by the religious courts, and that no minimum age is fixed for men.

The Committee is concerned that, according to information received, an alleged approximate number of 5,800 children below the minimum working age of 15 years illegally work in the streets.

Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary