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Work undertaken by children under the legal minimum working ages. National legislation normally sets various minimum ages for different types of work. For example, the age for normal full-time work may begin at the age at which compulsory schooling ends. The term child labor refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially, or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and which interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely, or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

The term “child labour” corresponds to work performed by children under the minimum age for employment and work defined by Article 3 of ILO Convention No. 182 including slavery and forced labour, use of children in armed conflicts, use of children in illicit activities, use of children for pornography or prostitution, and hazardous child labour.