Make money at 14
Most of the time, it's simply because 14-year-olds don't get enough pocket money - as they see it - when they express a desire to take a job in order to top up their budget. After all, when it comes to branded clothing, leisure activities, etc. keep up with their friends. And so the decision was made very quickly to start earning own money at the age of 14. But even if the parents allow their offspring to earn money at 14 - the legislature sees things very differently!
At 14, the Child Labor Protection Act applies
According to the law, 14-year-olds are still considered children, only from the age of 15 do they fall under the group of young people. And for children in Germany and all EU countries, the Child Labor Protection Act applies! As parents, you may give consent that your child may take up light work in order to Earning money at the age of 14 - this activity must, however, again comply with the guidelines of the law orientate.
- The legislature stipulates - and you as parents should also check this - that these are basically only light, engages in activities suitable for children that do not affect the health, development or safety of your child, respectively. endangered.
- Be sure to do the daily working time does not exceed 2 hours (exception: family farm: 3 hours) and the job exercised a maximum of 5 days a week between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. - but neither before nor during school time will.
- It is very important to ensure that your child's academic performance is not neglected because of the employment. Your child must still be able to follow the lessons attentively and homework and other school tasks must not be neglected.
Earning money - the law allows
- According to the law, your child is allowed to pursue simple activities in order to earn money at 14, but as a parent you should be with us Be very sensitive to job offers and find out in advance about the job offered and the working conditions inform.
- The permissible occupations in the sense of the state include the giving of tutoring, the supervision and care of Pets, handouts for sport (ball kid in tennis), household and garden activities, help in private and agricultural households including harvesting or cultivating fields, running errands, the self-marketing of agricultural products and shopping activities.
- Babysitting with neighbors' children is a particularly popular way of earning your own money at 14 - especially with girls. Here, however, there is a risk of exceeding legal limits, because 14-year-olds are not allowed to work after 6 p.m. and certainly not on Saturdays and Sundays! Seen in this way, paid babysitting would already be a violation of applicable law, because babysitters are usually needed in the evenings and on weekends.
- An estimated 80,000 children have chosen to deliver newspapers, magazines and flyers every week in order to make money. This is even done properly with an income tax card, which can be applied for from 14 years of age.
- But here, too, the trick of the law lurks: 14-year-olds are not allowed to engage in any activity the maximum handling of which regularly exceeds 7.5 kg, in rare cases 10 kg. Most of the time, the stacks of printed matter that have to be transported every week are much heavier, and in addition - measured against the drudgery - the payment is equivalent to a starvation wage.
At the age of 14 you can already take on a wide variety of jobs in order to ...
So if your child reveals to you that they want to earn their own money at 14 - you better think again whether - measured against to Expecting earnings - not a solution within the family (mowing the lawn, painting the fence, etc., for cash) to the cash register of your offspring to fill.
