Acts and Regulations

E-7.2 - Employment Standards Act

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Restrictions on employment of persons under 16 years of age
39Subject to section 41, no employer shall employ a person who is under the age of sixteen years
(a) in employment that is or is likely to be unwholesome or harmful to the person’s health, welfare or moral or physical development;
(b) for more than six hours in any day;
(c) for more than three hours on any school day;
(d) on any day for a period which, when added to the time required for attendance at school on that day, would require the person to spend more than a total of eight hours attending school and working;
(e) between the hour of ten o’clock in the afternoon of any day and the hour of six o’clock in the forenoon of the following day.
1984, c.42, s.22