Right to income of working children in Kenya
Date
2020-11
Authors
Ochieng, Emmie Rose Achieng
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Strathmore University
Abstract
This paper analyses the laws on working children between the ages of thirteen and fifteen and their right to income. It seeks to understand the rationale behind the law allowing these children into admission of employment as per Article 7 of the Minimum Age Convention, which is binding on Kenya. This provision shows that children between the mentioned ages have had their capacity extended from the previously known incapacity to cater for themselves. The concept of working children was first seen during the British industrial revolution which faced the challenge of child labour
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The Minimum Age Convention is a creation of the International Labor Organization, which is a branch of the United Nations organization that seeks to establish standards of labor, develop policies and programmes aimed at promoting decent work for everyone. The Convention attempts to curb forced child labor and further regulate their working as they have been admitted to employment. 2 It was adopted on the 26 June 1973, which Kenya ratified on the 9 April 1979, 3 and therefore is binding on Kenya in this regard.