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05/11/2012
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Alex Rodrigues
Agency Reporter Brazil
Brasilia - The judges are prohibited from Maranhão allow teenagers under 16 years work. Maranhão is one of the few states in the country to veto such a practice that contradicts the Constitution. By law, no company can hire people under 16 years, except as an apprentice. In the case of dangerous or unhealthy activities, including night work, minimum age is 18 years. The measure took effect yesterday.
According to the National Coordinator to Combat Exploitation of Working Children and Adolescents of the Ministry of Labour, Attorney Rafael Dias Marques, the states of Pará, Santa Catarina and Minas Gerais also prohibited state judges to grant injunctions of child labor.
Signed by the presiding judge, Judge Guerreiro Junior, the initiative Maranhao has been published in the Official Gazette of the State Courts. According to the advisory body, the judge made the decision based on data provided by State Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor, which identified 131 legal permission for children under 16 to work, even in unhealthy activities.
Information was obtained from records provided by the companies maranhenses the Ministry of Labor and Employment, through the Annual Social Information (Rais). The same data collection instrument whose consistency is questioned by the tax auditors working in São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul
Responsible for coordinating the projects of the Ministry of Labor to combat child employment in both states, the auditors inspected part of the statements recorded by the companies from São Paulo and Mato Grosso South and found a number of court injunctions to hire people under 16 years long reported below by Rais. In Sao Paulo, where work began last month, none of the 100 records already checked by the auditors of the work exists.
From the local situation, the auditors and the prosecutor Rafael Dias Marques suspect that many of the more than 33 000 permits reported by employers in Rais may never have existed, having been registered in error or bad faith. The auditors and the prosecutor, however, point out that, even though much smaller in number, there are cases of children and adolescents allowed to work for justice. And an even larger number of minors working informally.
Based on 2010 Census data, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), experts estimate there are between 2 million and 3.4 million children and adolescents between 10 and 17 years, with some kind of paid work.
Edition: Aecio Amado
Source: Agency Brazil
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