The Young Workers Directive: a safety net with holes

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The general aim of the Young Workers Directive is to protect young workers from work involving dangerous or harmful employment conditions. To this end, it seeks to prohibit child labour, strictly to regulate and protect the work done by adolescents, and to ensure ‘that young people have working conditions which suit their age’ (Article 1). In order to achieve these goals, the Directive comprises thirteen compulsory minimum standards. They fall into standards relating to the area of occupational health and safety more narrowly understood, and into provisions belonging to the field of employment rights defined in a wider sense.

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