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as well as loading and offloading companies.
The same prohibition shall apply to business
premises, liberal professions, national or ministerial
offices, civil society organisations, trade unions and
all kinds of associations.
Art.D.189-17.- In industries in which the work
involves substances that can very quickly change
form, when an instance of unforeseeable or
unpreventable force majeure, with no periodic
character, impedes the normal functioning of the
institution, the provisions of article D.189-17 herein
may be temporarily waived for male children over
sixteen, in order to prevent imminent accidents or
fix accidents that have occurred.
However, heads of institution shall have to inform
the labour inspector to use the waiver provided for
herein above.
Art.D.189-18.- In the industries enumerated herein
after, as concerns male children aged over sixteen
and employed in the indispensable works named
herein below and before, due to their nature, and
which have to go on night and day, the provisions of
article D 189- 17 may be waived, with an special
authorisation issued by the labour inspector :
• 1° iron and steel plants: works where
reverberatory or regenerative furnaces are used
and sheet as well as iron wire are galvanised
(excluding prickling plants), to help with
ancillary work for refining, rolling, peening and
wire-drawing, mould preparation for cast
objects moulded during initial melting ;
• 2° glassware : to hand tools, help in blowing
and moulding, carry into annealing furnaces,
withdraw objects from there, subject to
compliance with the prescriptions and
prohibitions provided for in articles D 189- 28,
D 189-32 and in tables A and B attached;
• 3° paper mills: to help machine attendants,
cut, sort, and prepare paper subject to
compliance with the prescriptions and
prohibitions provided for in article D 189-32
and in tables A and B attached;
• 4° sugar bush where unrefined sugar is
processed: to wash, sort sugar cane, operate the
juice or water valves, watch filters, help with
diffusion batteries, saw fabrics, wash
appliances and workshops .
Art.D.189-19.- In factories, plants, mines, quarries,
constructions
sites,
workshops
and
their
appurtenances, children may not be assigned to
work on recognised or public holidays, even to
arrange workshops.
However, the provisions of the sub paragraph may
be waived in non-stop operations, as concerns male
children who will have to be given a compensatory
day of rest.
Art.D.189-20.- Both male and female children in
apprenticeship may not be assigned any work in
their respective professions.
However, they may be assigned, following
agreements or in accordance with standard practice,
to take part, on Sundays, in works to arrange the
workshop. This work may however extend beyond
10 a.m.
Art.D.189-10.- It shall be prohibited to employ
children to work in the making, handling and sale of
writings, printed material, posters, drawings,
engravings, paintings, emblems, images or another
objects whose sale sale, offer, exhibition, posting or
distribution can negatively affect their morality or
have a negative influence on them.
It shall also be prohibited to employ children to do
any kind of work in premises where the works, spelt
out in the precious sub paragraph, are carried out.
Art.D.189-22.- The heads of institutions where
children are employed must ensure that proper
morals are maintained and public decency complied
with.
Art.D.189-23.- Children may not carry, pull or
push, both inside and outside their usual place of
work, loads that weigh more than the following :
1) load bearing :
• boys aged 14 to 16 yrs
: 15 kg
• boys aged 16 to 18 yrs
: 20 kg
• girls aged 14 to 16
yrs: 8 kg
• girls aged 16 to 18
yrs: 10 kg
2) transportation using small wagons moving on
rail tracks :
• boys aged 14,15, 16 or 17 yrs : 500 kg, vehicle
included ;
• girls aged below 16 yrs : 150Kg, including the
vehicle.
Implementing Decree of the Labour
Code
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