About 78% of the child domestic servants are girls. They perform all kinds of domestic work such as sweeping, washing clothes, cleaning dishes, cooking, grinding spices, looking after babies, making beds, shopping, accompanying children to school etc. Their remuneration ranges from taka 80 - 400 per month. Some young newcomers do not get any salary for the first few months. In most of the cases the money is handed over to their parents. The domestic servants are on the contrary provided with food, clothes and accommodation by their employer. They generally work 16-17 hours a day. But sometimes they work up to 18-19 hours a day. A few can take a rest and watch television for some time during their long working hours. The educational background is very poor: Most are illiterate (Rahman, 1997).

There is a wide variety in working hours of working children. Data from the Rapid Assessment Survey reveals that 65% of the interviewed child workers work 9 to 14 hours a day. In rural areas where agricultural work of which most is highly seasonal prevail, long hours during peak periods alternate with much less hours during slack seasons. Domestic servants may make the longest hours. Sometimes they work up to 18-19 hours a day. It is hard to say just how many hours children can work without having such negative effects because that depends on many things such as how hard the work is.

Not all children work for cash. Some children are paid in kind such as food, lodging or clothes. Children in urban areas generally earn more than children in rural areas. Many households are dependent on their children's income to a significant extent. Monthly income varies from taka 200 to 1500 in exceptional cases. The average monthly income of self-employed children is taka 797, while average monthly income of child workers employed by others is taka 362 . (3) Generally, children's wages do increase as they grow older.

There is considerable variation in payment in between various types of employment. Even for prostitutes, usually one of the best paid occupations, there can be a broad range, from those working as slaves for pimps receiving almost nothing, to girls working alone who can earn up to taka 1500 per day.

Hazardous work can be considered work that is unsafe or that threatens children's health and development. The garment industry employs only a tiny fraction of the total number of child workers. The vast majority of children work in the informal sector where conditions are far worse. However, young garment workers are most widely discussed. These children do also work under harsh conditions, but alternatives generally are far worse.

Garment factory work is usually not physically hazardous, but children usually work hours that keep them out of the school and that may be exhausting for the younger. In some factories children are treated harshly by the managers which can be damaging to children. Working children consider garment work to be amongst the very best jobs they can find because it pays better, has shorter hours, has easier working conditions and has more chance for advancement than almost any other work children can find. Very few work with machines, almost all do light work that has no inherent physical dangers .(4)

Children, as young as 10, start as a helper in the garment factories. They fetch and carry fabrics, cuffs, buttons and finished garments through the factory between the cutters, seamstresses and packers. After a few years working as a helper, they start working on the machines.

Abul Fayez came to Dhaka with his three sons after his farmland was flooded. Now they break bricks into gravel. Even so his youngest boy Bilal Hossain (10 years). They start to work at 6 am and finish about 12 years later. Per day, they barely earn enough to buy two meals a day. Without the help of Bilal, they wouldn't make enough to survive. Bilal himself of course wants more out of life; he wants to go to school and get a good job.

Hazardous child labour is the most unacceptable form of child labour such as children making brick or stone chips, or working in plastic, rubber or glass factories. In many cases the children are working without adequate safety measures like wearing gloves, protective shields and masks. Child domestic servants is an invisible labour force, but they are working in most labourious and exploitative situation. Child workers at night constitute an integral part of the child labour situation in Bangladesh. These child workers are found as cigarette sellers, fruit and peanut sellers, porters and prostitutes . (5)

Delwar Hossain is 12 years old. For a year he worked in a garment factory, 12 hours a day, pressing shirts and packing them for export. As a result of the pressure of groups campaigning to stop child labour, Delwar was fired. He now sells waste paper that he picks up along the road. Delwar and his mother live with his brother's family, eight people in a one-room hovel. Lately they have been skipping meals. For two months they weren't be able to pay the rent. In the garment factory, Delwar earned a wage of $20 a month. Delwar does not understand why he had to leave the factory.