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What's the Legal Age for Child Employment in Egypt?

Last updated 8/3/20260 viewsProvisional

No employment under 15 (training from 14), max 6 hours/day, no overtime or night work (arts. 62, 65).

Age: Employing children before the age of fifteen is prohibited; however, they may be trained once they reach fourteen, provided this does not hinder their continued education. An employer training a child under fifteen must give the child a card proving the training, approved by the competent administrative authority (art. 62). For the law's purposes, a child is anyone under eighteen (art. 61).

Working hours: A child may not work more than six hours a day, and the working hours must be interrupted by one or more rest-and-meal breaks totaling at least one hour, so the child never works more than four continuous hours (art. 65).

Key prohibitions: A child may not be made to work overtime, on weekly rest days, or on official holidays, and may not be employed between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. (art. 65).

It is also prohibited to employ or train children in work that endangers their health, safety, or morals, or hinders their education (art. 64).

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