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Network Journal 2007 Issue 4 July/Aug |
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Boy’s employer fined
The owners and manager of a butcher’s shop where a 15-year-old boy lost his arm have been fined for illegally employing a child.
The two were prosecuted by Oldham Council because the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and Oldham Council's by-laws ban schoolchildren from working in butcher's shops. In court both pleaded guilty and were each fined £750 with £200 costs.
A council spokesman said: "We are committed to taking action against employers who illegally employ children of school age. They are allowed to work from the age of 13 as long as they are working within the law, and their employer has applied for, and been issued with, a licence for them to work, via the local authority. Had Sam's employers applied for a licence for him to work, they would have been told that they could not employ him, therefore it would have safeguarded him from this incident."
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