Must recruitment be at least 18 years old?

You don't have to be 18 years old for recruitment, but you need 16 years old. According to national regulations, minors under the age of 16 are child laborers.

The specific criteria are as follows:

1 and 16 are child laborers, while 16 and 18 are underage laborers;

2. Minor workers shall not engage in high-temperature and high-risk industries such as underground mines, or work in nightclubs and other business premises, otherwise the labor administrative department may impose a fine.

Reasons for invalid signing of minor contract:

1. Except for purely profitable contracts, contracts signed by persons without civil capacity below 10 are invalid;

2./kloc-The contract signed by a person with limited capacity for civil conduct over 0/0 years old is not valid, but it is of course valid according to his age and intelligence;

3. Minors are divided into persons with limited capacity for civil conduct and persons without capacity for civil conduct, with age 10 as the boundary;

4. The civil activities of a person without civil capacity must be represented by a legal agent. Therefore, the signed contract is invalid;

5. The effectiveness of the contract signed by the person with limited capacity is to be determined. Other civil activities must be ratified by a legal representative unless the behavior commensurate with his age and intelligence is effective;

6. Only the beneficial contract is valid, regardless of whether it has civil capacity or not. /kloc-minors over 0/0 are persons with limited capacity for civil conduct, and minors under 0/0 are persons without capacity for civil conduct.

To sum up, the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that:/kloc-people over 0/8 years old are persons with full capacity for civil conduct and adults. /kloc-minors under 0/8. However, a person who has reached the age of 16 and is under the age of 18, and can make his own income as the main source of livelihood, is regarded as a person with full capacity for civil conduct. Therefore, child labor is legally defined as employment under the age of 16. 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 2 of the prohibition on the use of child labor

State organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units or individual industrial and commercial households are collectively referred to as the employing units, and the employing units shall not employ minors under the age of 16.

It is forbidden for any unit or individual to introduce employment to minors under the age of 16.

/kloc-minors under the age of 0/6 are prohibited from starting businesses and engaging in self-employed activities.

Article 19 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Minors over the age of eight are persons with limited capacity for civil conduct, and their legal representatives act as agents to carry out civil legal acts, or with the consent and ratification of their legal representatives; However, civil legal acts that are purely beneficial or suitable for their age and intelligence can be implemented independently.