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Child labor
Child labor
Cases of child labor havepersisted in the last several months in small-scale mining areas in T’boli town in South Cotabato despite a ban imposed by the local government on the employment of children or minors in mining activities in the area.
Chona Mantilla, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 12 director, said Monday they uncovered during a recent assessment of the mining activities at the gold rush village of Kematu in T’boli that a number of mining operators in the area have continued to employ minors for their operations.
She said the current pool of child laborers reportedly come from areas outside of Barangay Kematu, which passed a resolution and an ordinance last May that sets the elimination and prohibition of the deployment of minors and under age children within the village’s mining sites.
The measure, which was endorsed by the local government of T’boli, called for the full enforcement of such prohibition in the area.
“They (mining operators) resorted to hiring transient and visiting child workers or laborers from neighboring villages because of the ban,” Mantilla.