Case Analysis in Citi Bank

Related literature

As unicef's2 1997 State of the World's Children Report puts it, "Children's work needs to be seen as happening along a continuum, with destructive or exploitative work at one end and beneficial work - promoting or enhancing children's development without interfering with their schooling, recreation and rest - at the other. And between these two poles are vast areas of work that need not negatively affect a child's development." Other social scientists have slightly different ways of drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable work

According to the statistics given by International Labor Organization1 there are about 218 million children between the age of 5 and 17 working all over the world. The figure excludes domestic labor. The most condemned form of child labor is the use of children for military purpose and child prostitution. Child agricultural works, child singers and child actors outside of school hours during season time are more acceptable by champions of human rights and law. The phenomenon of child labor is a complex development issue worthy of investigation. The fact that vulnerable children are being exploited and forced into work, which is not fit for their age, is a human rights concern now. India and other developed and developing countries are really plagued by the problem of child employment in organized and unorganized sectors.

Child labor law,3 enacted by the Federal Government, restricts when children can work

and what

jobs they can do. Teens hired for nonagricultural employment (which is just about everything

other than farm work) must be at least fourteen. Other child labor law restrictions, regulating the

type of positions young workers can hold and the type of work they can do are also in effect.