Conducts labour inspections and enforces legislation on child labour through the Directorate-General for Social Welfare and the Directorate-General for Labour Inspections. It was created by the Labor Inspection Law, promulgated in 2017 by Decree No. 178-2016. (13,17,41,42) Summary This report, commissioned by the ILRF in Costa Rica (x year), summarizes the following evidence of labour rights violations. Freedom of association is not granted to agricultural workers on holdings with fewer than ten permanent employees. Since many agricultural workers are bound seasonally or contractually, they are denied the right to connect. In principle, children between the ages of 14 and 16 are only allowed to work 4 hours a day and 20 hours a week. However, the law on child labor in Honduras stipulates that young people over the age of 16 are allowed to work after 8 p.m., as long as the work does not affect their ability to go to school. Obviously, all children who work until 8 p.m. are.
will not go to school regularly. Wages, working hours and working conditions Although health and safety in the workplace is regulated on paper, there are no preventive or control measures and, above all, no sanctions for violating the law. This image on the right, drawn by a 10-year-old child, shows a boy spraying dangerous chemicals while thinking about his lost upbringing. This shows a harsh reality: among the children involved in child labour worldwide, 79 million are involved in hazardous work that can harm their health, safety or morals. This number has increased by 6.5 million since 2016. While the law in Honduras grants workers the right to form and join trade unions, there have been reported cases where employers have attempted to disrupt trade union activities by harassing or dismissing trade union sympathizers. Beginning in 1999, the Honduran Labour Court heard numerous appeals from workers who claimed to have been dismissed by their company for trade union activities. Subordinate domestic workers often work in difficult conditions (long journeys and long working hours, low wages, etc.). In the absence of social security and other occupational benefits under Honduran labour law, these children, especially girls, are also exposed to violence, including sexual abuse, by their employers. If the number of union members falls below 30, the Labour Code authorizes the Ministry of Labour to dissolve the union.
This violates Article 4 of ILO Convention 87, which prohibits the dissolution of trade unions through administrative procedures. Trade union federations, employers` organizations and human rights organizations stressed that the level of funding and resources of the Directorate-General for Labour Inspections is not sufficient to enforce child labour legislation at the national level. (1,17,28) Although the government reportedly granted nearly $3.4 million to the General Directorate of Labour Inspections, it ultimately received only $3.2 million due to budget cuts related to the pandemic and Hurricanes Eta and Iota. In 2020, inspectors did not have enough office equipment and transportation to conduct inspections. (17) In addition, reports indicate that the Directorate for Children, Youth and the Family (DINAF) does not have sufficient resources to carry out its mandate adequately. (14,28) In 2020, the continuing labour authorities in Honduras took measures to combat child labour (Table 6). However, there are gaps in the activities of the STSS that can hinder the proper application of labour law, including a lack of human resources. Aims to improve the enforcement of labour legislation, including laws relating to child labour, through the implementation of legal and policy reforms, the strengthening of STSS, the improvement of enforcement measures and the intensification of public relations. (60) During the period considered, USDOL and STSS continued their activities and coordination within the framework of the plan.
(17) In Honduras, children are sexually exploited for commercial purposes by family members and friends. (5,13,17) Children are also forced to work as street vendors and domestic workers. Gangs force children into extortion and murder, engage in prostitution, transport weapons, trade in drugs and serve as guards. (5,13,17) In addition, Honduras is a destination country for child sex tourists from the United States and Canada. (5) The project targets coffee-growing areas in western Honduras where many children are at risk. So far, more than 6,600 children have received direct services under the Bright Futures project, and more than 660,000 Hondurans have been affected by awareness-raising campaigns on children`s rights at work. † program is funded by the Government of Honduras. The government had other social programs that included the goal of eliminating or preventing child labor. (53) The poorest and most marginalised children choose violence as a means of survival. They are perceived as vermin and are often accused of all kinds of crimes, the most common of which is that they scare off investors and tourists.