'Child's working hours'

Working Hours and Earnings

Many children work long hours every day of the week.For example,some survey results show that half of the working children are toiling for nine hours or more per day.Sometimes,they also works in holidays,especially in the rural communities.A large mejority of youngster toil as unpaid family workers,in the rural areas where working girls outnumber working boys.More than four in every five children work without pay.Also,the younger working children the lower the wage payment.In average girls are working more than boys and they get low money more than boys.Sometimes,many children work during the evenings or night as well.Children do not get overtime money.In one major survey,close to two-thirds of the child labour force in the agriculture are found to be working during these periods-three quarters of the boys and more than two-fifths of the girls.A large number of the girls working as housemaid are often obliged to spend the night in their employer’s household there by also exposing themselves to various abuse.For girls and boys the payment for domestic help ranges from taka 200-1300 per month in dhaka area.But in other district,They get low money from dhaka.