Surrey County Council has prosecuted a pub restaurant for breaching child employment law, by having a 16-year-old working later than 7pm on a Sunday.
The young woman was working at The Moorhen, in Pirbright, owned by chain Mitchells & Butlers, the night before a GCSE exam.
Ian Hart, child employment officer at the council, brought the case on 22 December last year. Hart, the chairman of the National Network for Child Employment and Entertainment, has prosecuted 23 companies in Surrey over the past three years.
He said: "Surrey is at the forefront of child employment enforcement, prosecuting companies such as McDonald's. The network has only 40 reported prosecutions nationally, so Surrey has achieved more than 50 per cent of this."
See 'The Work Life Balance' (YPN, 5-11 November 2003, p14).
