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Which is also legal in some places of Europe, it's called "practicing" or whatever.
I think the system in Europe is more about practicing skilled trade than just doing unskilled factory work. If this story was about kids apprenticing to be plumbers, then I think there would be much less outrage.
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I think the system in Europe is more about practicing skilled trade than just doing unskilled factory work. If this story was about kids apprenticing to be plumbers, then I think there would be much less outrage.
Depends on the course, same practical internship are pretty much of the level of unskilled work. Still not okay without at least a decent pay if you ask me.
>Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours 16 is a legal age to work in many places of Europe, including my very own country. What exactly am I missing here? Also isn't it a bit manipulative to call a 16 year old teenager a "schoolchild"?
Edit: I think it is also a method to differentiate K-12 schools from higher education. Although "college kids" does also appear to be used often in America (don't know about the UK). I am not sure whether "kid" and "child" can refer to different age groups.
>Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours 16 is a legal age to work in many places of Europe, including my very own country. What exactly am I missing here? Also isn't it a bit manipulative to call a 16 year old teenager a "schoolchild"?
From what I have gathered, it is pretty normal in America/English to call 16 years old "children" (although Guardian is from the UK), in contrast to Germany/German, where apparently they normally wouldn't be called "Kinder" but "Jugendliche". So maybe it is just a linguistic or cultural difference to your country. Edit: I think it is also a method to differentiate K-12 schools from higher education. Although "college…
In many countries the legal age to work is 14 or 15.
>Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours 16 is a legal age to work in many places of Europe, including my very own country. What exactly am I missing here? Also isn't it a bit manipulative to call a 16 year old teenager a "schoolchild"?
The company said in a statement: “We have doubled the oversight and monitoring of the internship program with each relevant partner school to ensure that, under no circumstances, will interns [be] allowed to work overtime or nights." My dear Chinese friends, does Chinese govt bother to punish FoxConn for this or overtime is just norm in industry ?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is also legal in some places of Europe, it's called "practicing" or whatever.
I think the system in Europe is more about practicing skilled trade than just doing unskilled factory work. If this story was about kids apprenticing to be plumbers, then I think there would be much less outrage.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I have gathered, it is pretty normal in America/English to call 16 years old "children" (although Guardian is from the UK), in contrast to Germany/German, where apparently they normally wouldn't be called "Kinder" but "Jugendliche". So maybe it is just a linguistic or cultural difference to your country. Edit: I think it is also a method to differentiate K-12 schools from higher education. Although "college…
Article should use the word teenager, not children - seems misleading. In many countries the legal age to work is 14 or 15.