The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-19
NJ Office TO EMPLOYERS OF FE-
IN MALE LABOR An act for the

NJ Office TO EMPLOYERS OF FE-
~ MALE LABOR.-An act for the
better protection of female or other en-
ployes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the state
of Delaware In General Assembly met:
Section l. That 1t shall be the duty of
every person or corporation employing te-
male labor to the number OF ten or UP
wards in New Castle county to provide
within three months after the passage OF
this act, room or rooms, plainly and ap-
propriately furnished, for such employees
to dress, wash and lunch in, separate and
apart from the male employees OF such
person or corporation, allowing In said
separate room or rooms, at least nine
square feet of floor space for each EN-
ploye. and further to provide Washing
sinks for such female employees, separate
and apart from such male employees, al
lowing one such washing sink to each M
teen of such female employees by such
person or corporation; and further, to
provide water-closets for such female
employees separate from those used by
such male employees, provided that moth
ing in this section shall apply to canning
establishments doing business in the
rural districts of said county.
Section @ 1t shall be the duty of every
store keeper in New Castle county to pro-
vide seats for his or her clerks and en-
ployes so that when unemployed such
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of every
person or corporation employing female
labor to provide such places for such fe-
male employees to work in during cold
weather as shall be reasonably and COM
fortably warm.
Section 4. 1t shall be unlawful for any
employer of female labor, or any over
seer, superintendent, foreman or boss OF
any such employer of female labor, to use
toward female employees any abusive In
decent or profane language, or to In any
manner abuse misuse, unnecessarily eX-
pose TO hardship or maltreat any such
female employee.
Section s. Any person violating any
provision of section four of this act, shall
he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than ten and not exceeding one hun
dred dollars for each offense. Any person
or corporation violating any provision of
the first, second and third sections of this
act shall be deemed guilty of INSIDE
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
he fined the sum of ten dollars and shall
be subject TO the further penalty of ten
dollars for each day thereafter during
which such corporation or person shall
| refuse or neglect to provide the furnished
| rooms, Seats appliances, or furnish the
heat therein mentioned.
Section {. Prosecutions for violation of
the provisions Of this act may be insti-
| tuted upon the complaint of any person
| before any justice of the peace in New
| Castle county, resident in the hundred in
which the place of business of such en-
| ploycr shall be located, or in a hundred
| adjacent thereto Any such justice of the
| peace shall have Jurisdiction to hear, try
and determine such complaints, with an
appeal to the Court of the General Ses-
| SiOnS of the Peace and Jail Delivery. Upon
| conviction OF violation Of any Of the pro-
| visions of this act the justice Of the peace
| hearing said complaint, in case said de-
| PENDANT is a cOrporation shall have
| authority TO issue execution against said
| defendant for tho fine ana costs. and all
penalties imposed or accruing against
ssiI I,,fgnGanf under the nrnVisiun,s of
S ,ha aeieuS XII nna and nenaties ' immosed
under this act shall be maid into the treas
ury of New Castle county. In any prose
| cufion under the first section of this act
IL shall be necessary to aver in the com.
nlaint' or TO move in behalf of the prose.
rutlon Mt the trial thereof, that the de.
PENDANT EMPLOYS female labor TO the mum.
her of ten or towards, provided, however
| NAT ma attendant in any such nrosrcu.
lion may Introduce evidence upon this
noint' and if the Justice of the peace try,
inp said case shall find that such de.
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No nnmhnT Of Ten or JiUwards' said nrose
cntinp ehaIl faI All nroseCution unde,
This act shall he in the name of New Cas-
lie county,
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