Children Working Alone in Alberta: How Child Labour and Working Alone Regulations Interact

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Children Working Alone in Alberta: How Child Labour and Working Alone Regulations Interact
Abstract
The Canadian province of Alberta does not effectively enforce its child labour laws. This non-enforcement interacts with the working-alone regulations in Alberta´s Occupational Health and Safety Act to deny workers under age 15 meaningful solo work protection. As a result, children and adolescents are exposed to the hazards adults face while working alone as well as hazards unique to children and adolescents working alone. This suggests that failing to enforce child labour laws has both obvious and subtle effects. The subtle effects are difficult to identify and remediate, in part because of the initial regulatory failure is politically difficult to acknowledge.
Publication
Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
Volume
17-18
Pages
34-48
Date
2010-2011
Citation
Barnetson, B. (2010). Children Working Alone in Alberta: How Child Labour and Working Alone Regulations Interact. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 17–18, 34–48. http://www.justlabour.yorku.ca/volume17/pdfs/03_barnetson_press.pdf