兰桂姬 不仅仅只是语言 Languagee,More than just Language

The employment rate for minors exceeds 50% in Quebec, where there is no minimum age requirement to start working.在魁北克，未成年人的就业率超过 50%，没有最低年龄要求。

At an age when some children still play with Legos, Adrien dutifully stacks cans on a shelf. Every night, the young boy runs out of school to come to work in this supermarket on the north end of the island of Montreal. Working two hours every day after school makes for a busy schedule for this 12-year-old boy. At the cash registers of this same supermarket, very young adolescents like him help customers fill their bags. How many hours a week do they work, at what wages? The manager refuses to answer.

在一些孩子还在玩乐高积木的年纪，阿德里安尽职尽责地将易拉罐堆放在架子上。每天晚上，这个小男孩都会从学校跑到蒙特利尔岛北端的这家超市工作。每天放学后工作两个小时，让这个 12 岁男孩的日程安排很忙。在同一家超市的收银台上，像他这样的非常年轻的青少年帮助顾客装满行李。他们每周工作多少小时，工资是多少？经理拒绝回答。

However, in theory, the employment of these minors is perfectly legal. In Quebec, there is no minimum age required to start working. The law on labor standards only lists a few restrictions: The employer must make sure to obtain the written authorization of the parents for minors under 14 years of age. Up to the age of 16, they may not work during school hours, and night shifts are prohibited.然而，理论上，这些未成年人的就业是完全合法的。在魁北克，开始工作没有最低年龄要求。劳动标准法只列出了一些限制： 雇主必须确保获得 14 岁以下未成年人父母的书面授权。直到 16 岁，他们不得在上课时间工作，并且禁止上夜班。

In 2016, a survey conducted by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec found that one in three schoolchildren had a paid job during the school year. This is a very special situation, which makes Quebec, and Canada more generally, an exception among the members the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) when it comes to child labor.2016 年，魁北克统计研究所进行的一项调查发现，三分之一的学童在学年中有一份带薪工作。这是一个非常特殊的情况，这使得魁北克和加拿大在涉及童工问题时成为经济合作与发展组织 (OECD) 成员国中的一个例外。

来源：Quebec puts kids to work to address labor shortage (lemonde.fr)

PS:没想到这个年代西方也会有童工，我记得西方什么时候也炒作批评过中国的童工问题？