Legal bases

Young people require special health protection measures at their training or work place. The "Jugendarbeitsschutzgesetz" (Act on the Protection of Young Persons at Work) stipulates that employers must protect employees under the age of 18, in accordance with said employees' level of development, against excessive physical strain, excessively challenging tasks and hazards at the workplace. They must also ensure medical care is provided at work and that their young employees have sufficient leisure time to relax and develop their personality.

• Council Directive 94/33/EC of 22 June 1994 on the protection of young people at work
• "Jugendarbeitsschutzgesetz" (Act on the Protection of Young Persons at Work)
• Verordnung über die ärztlichen Untersuchungen nach dem
  "Jugendarbeitsschutzuntersuchungsverordnung" (Ordinance regarding Medical Examinations as specified in the Act on the Protection of Young Persons at Work)
  
• Verordnung über den Kinderarbeitsschutz
  "Kinderarbeitsschutzverordnung" (Ordinance on the Protection of Children at Work)
  
• "Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag" (Interstate Agreement on the Protection of Human Dignity and Young Persons in the Broadcasting Media and Telemedia) 
   
  
  
  

Example rulings

• Giving trainees work after they have completed their training results in employment contract [14.07.2005]
  Even if a trainee is only given work for a short period after the end of his/her vocational training, that work results in an employment contract of unspecified duration since the legal situation is equivalent to that in the case of a fixed-term.  
  
• Employers obliged to take on young workers'/trainees' representatives as employees only in case of contractual relationship [18.08.2005]
  Employers are only obliged to take on young workers'/trainees' representatives as employees if there is a contractual relationship between the representative and the employer.