In Germany, it’s 14. I made absolute bank tutoring slightly younger kids (and a few old people on how to use computers) as a teen and young adult. Since I also used a bicycle to get to all of my clients four to five days per week, I was in the best shape of my entire life.
Still, the reality of these laws, especially in countries like Russia, is that kids from poor socioeconomic backgrounds will be forced into awful (even dangerous) jobs at terrible hours (not the easy-going “self-employed” middle class tutoring I voluntarily did), resulting in lower quality of life and poor performance at school, which means their chance of having a decent life later on will be seriously hurt when they are tired in classes and don’t have enough time to learn, play and socialize outside of school hours.
13 is the minimum in Netherlands. Yes, under some conditions, but still. 13.
Those “some conditions” being:
Not on school days.
Not on sundays, except if you didn’t work Saturday and only a dozen per year.
No factory or machine work
No dangerous materials
No register work
No loading/unloading
No delivery work
No late or night work
No loud noises
I feel Russia doesn’t quite hold to the same list of requirements.
Can you tell me what kind of work is even left for 13 year olds?
Edit: I get it, apparently farmwork.
Stuff like stocking shelves at the supermarket, helping around your parents work.
But yeah, the list is intentionally short.
In Germany, it’s 14. I made absolute bank tutoring slightly younger kids (and a few old people on how to use computers) as a teen and young adult. Since I also used a bicycle to get to all of my clients four to five days per week, I was in the best shape of my entire life.
Still, the reality of these laws, especially in countries like Russia, is that kids from poor socioeconomic backgrounds will be forced into awful (even dangerous) jobs at terrible hours (not the easy-going “self-employed” middle class tutoring I voluntarily did), resulting in lower quality of life and poor performance at school, which means their chance of having a decent life later on will be seriously hurt when they are tired in classes and don’t have enough time to learn, play and socialize outside of school hours.