Salaried work is allowed from the age of 14, but under several conditions, e.g. granting paid daily studying time and limiting access to some jobs considered as dangerous or a hazard to health. Lobbying from working children’s organizations was decisive in allowing self-employed work from the age of 10.
Salaried work allowed from the age of 14, sometimes 12. On June 26, the Bolivian senate approved the new Child and Teenager Code (Código del Niño, la Niña y el Adolescente), added to the Labor Act, which will come into force in 2015. It regulates salaried child labor from the age of 14, 10 in case of self-employment. This text is a victory for working children’s associations, mobilized to defend underage people’s right to work. Last December, they forced Bolivia’s MPs to backpedal on a bill...
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