What's illegal about restaurants that employ/kloc-children under the age of 0/6?

The employment of child labor is a violation of the Labor Law, the Law on the Protection of Minors and other related illegal acts to protect the rights and interests of minors.

Employers are prohibited from recruiting/kloc-minors under the age of 0/6. Units of literature, art, sports and special arts and crafts that recruit minors under the age of 16 must abide by the relevant provisions of the state. If the employing unit illegally recruits child labor, the labor administrative department shall order it to make corrections and impose a fine; If the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked by the market supervision and management department. In terms of prohibiting the use of child labor under the age of 16, China's relevant laws, whether it is the Labor Law or the Law on the Protection of Minors, actually have clear relevant prohibitions. "Labor Law": It is forbidden for employers to recruit minors under the age of 16. In the law on the protection of minors, child labor refers to the employment of people under the age of 16, and minors refer to people under the age of 18.

No organization or individual may recruit minors under the age of sixteen; The Regulations on Prohibiting the Use of Child Labour further clearly stipulates that state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units or individual industrial and commercial households (hereinafter collectively referred to as employers) shall not recruit minors under the age of 16 (hereinafter collectively referred to as using child labour). The fine for using child labor is 5,000 yuan per child per month. Including local regulations.

Consequences of employing minors:

Fines or revocation of business licenses, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. If the law stipulates that the employer illegally recruits minors under the age of 16, the labor administrative department shall order them to make corrections and impose a fine; If the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce. Article 94 of the Labor Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that if an employer illegally recruits minors under the age of 16, the labor administrative department shall order it to make corrections and impose a fine; If the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce. If the circumstances are serious, according to the first paragraph of Article 244 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of labor management regulations, minors under the age of 16 are recruited to engage in ultra-intense manual labor, or to engage in aerial or underground work, or to engage in labor in explosive, flammable, radioactive or toxic dangerous environments. If the circumstances are serious, the person directly responsible shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and fined. If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

To sum it up. Enterprises, institutions and individual industrial and commercial households employ minors under the age of 16 to engage in labor, which is an illegal act of recruiting child labor. This is the key protection measure for minors in national laws.

Legal basis:

Article 15 of the Labor Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Employers are prohibited from recruiting/kloc-minors under the age of 0/6.

Units of literature, art, sports and special arts and crafts that recruit minors under the age of 16 must abide by the relevant provisions of the state, go through the examination and approval procedures, and guarantee their right to receive compulsory education.