Vietnam: list of light work allowed for persons from 13 to under 15 years of age

Vietnam: list of light work allowed for persons from 13 to under 15 years of age

According to the provisions of Circular 09/2020/TT-BLDTBXH, one of the conditions employers must comply with when employing people under the age of 15 is:"Persons from 13 to under 15 years of age may be employed only for light works included in the list of work for persons from 13 to under 15 years of age and The workplace is not any of the cases mentioned in Points a, b, c and d Clause 2 Article 147 of the Labor Code as well as the List of workplaces that harm the physical, intellectual, and personality development of minors as prescribed in Point dd, Clause 2, Article 147 of the Labor Code."

According to Appendix II issued together with Circular 09/2020/TT-BLDTBXH, list of light work allowed for persons from 13 to under 15 years of age includes:

(1) Art performers.

(2) Athletes.

(3) Software programming.

(4) Traditional crafts: pottery dot painting; mussel shell sawing; bamboo paper making; leaf hat making; hat dot painting; sleeping mat weaving; drum making; brocade weaving; brocade embroidering; rice noodle making; vermicelli making; bean sprout making; rice paper making; silk weaving; lotus silk winding; lacquer painting, incense making, votive paper making (excluding stages where toxic chemicals such as paint made from wax tree, bleach, colorants, fragrance additives, etc. are used).

(5) Handicrafts: lace weaving; decorative woodworking; horn comb making; folk painting (Dong Ho painting, Hang Trong painting, etc.); making toy figurines from rice powder; woodcut painting, attaching additional layers to silk painting; collecting mollusk shells for paintings; painting polishing; bead bracelet making, handcrafted jewelry polishing; puppet making; greeting card making, making paper decorations for greeting cards; making painting frames, paper models, paper boxes and paper bags.

(6) Weaving and making household articles and handmade articles using natural ingredients such as plants of the Calameae tribe, bamboo, coconut tree, banana plant, common water hyacinth, jute, sedge, forked ferns, etc.

(7) Cured pork wrapping, candy wrapping and cake wrapping (excluding use of wrapping equipment).

(8) Silkworm raising.

(9) Removing weeds from vegetable gardens; collecting seasonal vegetables and fruit.

(10) Herding livestock in farms.

(11) Assisting with untangling fishnets, weaving fishnets and drying aquatic products.

(12) Cutting threads, sewing buttons, sewing button holes and packing hand-woven products into boxes.

Thus, according to this regulation, employers are only allowed to recruit and employ people from the full age of 13 years old to under 15 years old to do jobs on the list of jobs mentioned above, and the workplace must not fall into the following cases:

- Under water, underground, in caves, in tunnels;

- Construction site;

- Cattle slaughter establishments;

- Casinos, bars, discos, karaoke rooms, hotels, motels, sauna facilities, massage facilities, lottery business points, electronic game services;

- Other workplaces that harm the physical, intellectual, and personality development of minors

Details on the list of workplaces that harm the physical, intellectual, and personality development of minor can be found in here.

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