Format:
Book
Resource type:
Good Practice
Year:
2022
Thematic area:
Increasing awareness of labour rights
Rules and regulation
ILO Element:
Safe work environment
Work that should be abolished
Target group:
Youth and Women organisations
Publisher:
ILO
2022-Thematic-Plan-8-Young-Workers-in-Hazardous-Occupations.pdf3.45 MB

Young Workers in Hazardous Occupations

Frontpage

48 million young workers aged 15-17 were estimated to be employed in hazardous jobs in 2012. Decent Jobs for Youth not only aims to create jobs for youth, but improve the quality of existing work with regard to productivity, earnings, working conditions and rights, particularly for young people who are working but continue to live in conditions of poverty and deprivation. The situation of young people in hazardous work is of particular concern.