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Manpower Training Act, 1981 (Act No. 56 of 1981)

Chapter 2 : Registrar of Manpower Training, Training Boards, Training of Apprentices and Attainment of Artisan Status

15. Employment of minors in designated trades

 

1) Any employer who -
a) has any minor who is not an apprentice or a trainee in his employment in a designated trade at the commencement of the Manpower Training Amendment Act, 1990;
b) takes any minor into his employment in a designated trade in a capacity other than that of an apprentice or a trainee;
c) has any minor who is not an apprentice or a trainee in his employment in a designated trade and for any reason terminates his employment, shall -
i) in the case of an employer referred to in paragraph (a) , within thirty days after the said commencement;
ii) in the case of an employer referred to in paragraph (b) , within fourteen days after the date of the employment in question;
iii) in the case of an employer referred to in paragraph (c) , within fourteen days after the date of the relevant termination of employment,

in the prescribed manner and in the form determined by the relevant training board notify the training committee in question of the fact that a minor is so in employment or of the employment or of the termination of employment, as the case may be.

 

2) No person shall take into or retain in his employment in a designated trade any minor who is not qualified in terms of section 17 to bind himself as an apprentice, or who is not qualified so to bind himself in accordance with the conditions of apprenticeship prescribed in respect of apprentices in the designated trade in question.

 

3) Every minor employed under this section shall be employed in accordance with conditions which are not less favourable to him than the conditions, if any, prescribed or deemed to have been prescribed under section 13(2), in so far as they relate to the rates of remuneration and hours of work of apprentices employed in the trade in question, and in accordance with any other conditions which are applicable in respect of such employment by virtue of the provisions of subsection (4).

 

4) The Minister may in any notice in terms of section 13(2) or (3) declare that any of or all the other conditions of apprenticeship contained therein shall apply also in respect of minors employed in terms of this section.