Example in Action: Preventing Child Labor Reoccurrence in a Manufacturing Environment

Impact Limited’s Operational Procedures for Remediation of Child Labour in Industrial Contexts provides detailed guidance on both improving victim situations and preventing recurrence of child labor when found in a manufacturing environment, including:

• Providing a stipend to the child’s family to make up for the lost income if the child’s family can be contacted.
• Offering the child’s job to another member of the family who is of legal age to work.
• Providing alternative income generation opportunities to the child’s parents or adult relatives.
• Ensuring that the child attends school or an alternative educational facility, paying associated fees as needed and tracking the child until they are of age to work.
• Providing the child with a training or apprenticeship opportunity when they are of legal age for such programs and committing to provide the job back once they are of full legal working age.
• Linking the child to educational, developmental, psychosocial, and other services provided by the government or NGOs.
• If the child has been living away from their family, reuniting the child with the family while ensuring that the family can provide a protective environment and applicable services.
• For children of the minimum age for work, eliminating dangerous work activities from the child’s job and closely monitoring the child’s work on an ongoing basis.
• Helping the child identify other safe income-earning opportunities, if there is no feasible way to reduce hazards in the current work environment.
• Finding a way for the child to make up for the lost income through other earning opportunities, a stipend, or family interventions, in the event working hours are reduced.

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to address child labor and forced labor.

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