Without holidays

With the arrival of summer season began on child labour
70 thousand young citizens of the republic did not attend school, but instead to earn bread for themselves and their families.
Younger change employment in trade and services among youngsters is considered a prestigious profession and portering. The other day in the capital and regions have passed activities to attract public attention to this problem. Experts of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection beaten in alarm: more and more boys and girls scores textbooks for work at Bazaar.
-- Almost all children who are working today in Bishkek, come from regions - explained at a press conference chap minsotsrazvitiya Uktomhan Abdullayeva.
According to her, such a step at besprosvetnaya poverty pushes people to get their parents associated with unemployment. Today, almost every third child is engaged in trade, 14 percent worked loader, 8.5 - gather metal, another 5 - turned back in the fields. According to official figures, about 6 percent of young kirgizstantsev simply begging on the streets, which also equated to child labour.
And if in the capital and major cities boys and girls earn their bread mostly in local markets, the regions of their peers equal footing with adults missing on plantations of cotton, beans, vegetable crops. For example, only one in Jalal-Abad area of about 125 thousand children are involved in collecting tobacco. As
Uktomhan stressed Abdullayeva, in Soviet times, schoolchildren and students also actively used at the time of harvest, but not at the expense of learning. Local authorities, as forces working with children, explaining the legal norms, and interviews conducted in parallel with the parents.
-- Vozmuschaet indifference adults who are not ashamed in the markets to load dozens of kilograms of boys - negoduet head of the Ministry. -- At the same time encouraging that there are many among the young volunteers who want to address these
problem. The child is not willing to heed official with his guidance, and by their peers, tells of children's rights.
As stressed by Abdullaev, in the republic established stringent standards: how many kilograms of weight minor may raise per shift. For adolescents 14 years of combined mass must not exceed 200 kilograms, 15 - 250.16 -500.17 - 700. For girls installed more serious limitation: in 14 years per shift could raise a total of 90 kilograms, 15 - already hundredweight, 16 - two hundredweight, in 17 - 250 kilograms. In case of violation of these regulations a minor employee can safely apply to the state labour inspectorate in the Ministry of Labour and sotsrazvitiya. But employers complain of young people unprofitable, but because adults are very often violated the rights of youngsters.
According to specialists in this field, authorities now applied lot of effort to motivate children's learning. To do so, in Osh, near the bazaar was open information and rehabilitation center for working children. Following a change of guys come into it to learn the basics of computer knowledge and learn more about their rights. A similar center operates in
Kara-Suu. Soon, the same structure will appear in Bishkek on the basis of one of the capital's vocational schools. It is expected that his visitors will be teenagers working at located close to the educational institution Osh market.
The alternative to child labour there. Thus, according to the head of youth exchanges Aziz Eid-rice, boys and girls could easily earn decent money, leaving his request for labour exchange. During the holidays, as is known, too many students and school children looking for additional sources of revenue. According to Idrisova, they had already employ more than a thousand people who work for 4 - 5 hours a day and on average receive about 4-5 thousand soms a month.

Commentary
Vladimir Tomchenko,
Deputy Director of the State Inspectorate of Labour in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development:
-- We are particularly concerned that employers do not enter into employment contracts with their children. Therefore, they typically do not bear any responsibility for what happens to adolescents at the time shifts. Unfortunately, the rights of minors workers are often denied. Thus, at a recent private enterprises Jalal-Abad accident -17 - old boy hit in the foot container on the tape bottling mineral water. As a result of an accident a young man amputated three fingers. But only two weeks after the mother of boys CHP has been able to make the convening of a special commission to investigate the incident. If labor relations have been legalized, the employer will be liable.
We have many violations of children's rights in private enterprises. Today, there is rule of law, which hampered the work of inspectors. Now, before arriving on the production, we need 10 days to inform the employer about the future verification, to provide him with the program. As a result, when we come to check that children usually can not get there. Therefore, in our practice so far has had no sanction employers for the inappropriate use of child labour. Once again recall that the treaty must be in writing with all, including workers with minors. It is necessary to ensure that this becomes the norm.

Oksana Semenyak