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RA 679 Section 2

Employment of children below sixteen years of age.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Employment of children below sixteen years of age.- a. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work- 1. in any industrial undertaking or in any branch or division thereof, including- aa. mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth; bb. undertakings in which articles are manufactured, transformed, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, or broken up or demolished; cc. undertakings engaged in shipbuilding or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind. dd. undertakings engaged in building and civil engineering works, including constructional, repair, maintenance, alteration and demolition work; and ee. undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road or rail, or in the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses, or airports. 2. in any shop, factory, industrial establishment or other place of labor- aa as operator of elevators, motorman, or fireman; bb to operate or assist in operating or to clean machinery ; cc to work underground or with the use of ramps or scaffoldings; or dd to do any work similar to any of the foregoing. 3. in billiard rooms, cockpits, other place where games are played with stakes of money or things worth money, or in a bar, night club, dance hall, stadium, or race track, as waiter, boxer or jockey.

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CitationRA 679 Section 2 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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