Child and labor legislation
On Tuesday June 12, 2018, the Directorate of Labor and Social Welfare held in the auditorium of the Government Palace the conference called “Labor Legislation and Child Labor” which was taught by Mrs. Luz María Chombo Tovar, Eleven Rivers Technical Operation Coordinator.
This conference dealt with issues such as: Child labor, decent and decent work, farm workers and day laborers and domestic work. She also mentioned the categories in the standards related to child labor which are:
- Work excluded from legislation relating to minimum age (For example, housework, work that is part of education),
- Light work (12 and 13 years),
- Work without risk (from 14 years old),
- Dangerous work (from the age of 18),
- Worst forms of child labor (totally forbidden)
As part of the presidium, Eduardo Alberto Portillo Ávila, Director of Labor and Social Welfare of the State, Lic. Margarita Urías Burgos, Executive Secretary of the State System for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents, Lic. José Silvino Zavala Araujo, Local Deputy, Lic. David Careaga Angulo, General Director of AARC and Mtro. José Carlos Álvarez Ortega, President of the Sinaloa State Human Rights Commission and Luz Maria Chombo Tovar, Technical Operation Coordinator of Eleven Rivers, who was in charge of the conference.
Mr. Eduardo Portillo Ávila said that prevention is the most efficient and effective route to improve our social environment and eradicate the occupation of girls and boys below the minimum age to work, as well as to safeguard human rights and social prevention of adolescent workers in the permitted age, tasks in which the joint participation of the three orders of government is required.