Indicator 3.3.13

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Indicator 3.3.13

by Contact on 8 October 2026

Requirement

Indicator applicability: children aged 13 or 14, or below the age of completion of mandatory schooling. The UoC shall ensure that children conducting light work have a daily rest period of at least 14 consecutive hours within a 24-hour period.

How Do I Interpret This Requirement?

  • Excessive working hours can have a detrimental physical and mental impact on all people, but particularly on children under the age of 18 who have not yet reached adulthood.

  • Protecting children from excessive working hours is an important part of the prevention of child labour.

  • A rest period means a time when children are not working.

  • A rest period of 14 consecutive hours in a 24-hour period means that children have a sufficient amount of time to rest and sleep in between times when they are conducting light work.

Evidence of Implementation

  • age verification records

  • working hours records

  • payslips and pay records

  • young employees’ contracts.

Auditors Should Confirm

  • whether anyone under the age of 15 or below the age of completion of mandatory schooling is employed at the UoC;

  • working hours and rest hours of employees under the age of 15 or below the age of completion of mandatory schooling;

  • that information in contracts, age verification records and payslips match;

  • young employees’ description of their working hours.