Penalties for violating regulations on employing workers under 16 years old
Ms. Tran Thi Hien in Vinh city asked, how is the crime of violating regulations on employing workers under 16 years old handled?
Article 296,The 2015 Penal Code (amended in 2017) stipulates:Crime of violating regulations on employment of workers under 16 years old, as follows:
1. Anyone who employs a worker under 16 years of age to do heavy or dangerous work or to work in contact with toxic substances according to the list prescribed by the State in one of the following cases shall be subject to a fine of from VND 30,000,000 to VND 200,000,000, non-custodial reform for up to 03 years or imprisonment from 06 months to 03 years:
a) Having been administratively sanctioned for this act or having been convicted of this crime, not having had the criminal record expunged, and still committing the violation;
b) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 31% to 60%;
c) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 31% to 60%.
2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 03 to 07 years:
a) Committing the crime 02 times or more;
b) Causing death;
c) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;
d) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%.
3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 05 years to 12 years:
a) Causing the death of two or more people;
b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 122% or more.
4. The offender may also be fined from VND 10,000,000 to VND 50,000,000 and banned from practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 01 to 05 years.
