Is it illegal to recruit minors to work in bars?

It depends. Minors are also divided into two situations: under 16 years old is child labor, and recruitment is illegal; It is not illegal to recruit minors aged from 16 to 18 and apply for the registration certificate of underage workers.

Except for a few literary and art groups, it is illegal for all enterprises and institutions to recruit minors under the age of 16. 16 years old to 18 years old, is an underage worker. If you are over 16 years old, as long as you meet the requirements of special protection, the bar is not a forbidden industry.

According to the regulations,/kloc-people over 0/8 years old are adults with full capacity for civil conduct. /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:

Labor law of the people's Republic of China

Article 15

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

Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors

Article 38

No organization or individual may employ minors under the age of 16, unless otherwise stipulated by the state. Any organization or individual that recruits minors who have reached the age of 16 but have not reached the age of 18 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state shall implement the provisions of the state on types of work, working hours, labor intensity and protective measures, and shall not arrange them to engage in overweight, toxic or harmful labor or dangerous operations that endanger the physical and mental health of minors.