Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

to regulate employment agents, and
making an appropriation.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin.
represented in Senate and Assembly.
Section l. Sections 1866, 1e3s-1o,
1861. 1868, 92s-1e7 and 926-169
OF the statutes are repealed.
Section 2. There are added to the
statutes fourteen new sections and new
subsection to read: Section 2394-S2. The
term employment agent shall mean and
include all persons, firms, corporations or
associations engaged in the business of
furnishing to persons seeking employ
ment information enabling or tending to
enable such persons to secure the same,
ers or other help of any kind, informa-
ton enabling or tending TO enable such
employers to secure such help, or keeping
a register of persons seeking employment
or help as aforesaid.
Section 2394--S3. No person, firm, asso-
citation or corporation, or any employee or
agent thereof, shall make any false state
ment to any person furnishing or seek
ing employment, knowing the same to be
false, in regard to any employment,
work or situation, it's nature, location,
duration, wages or salary attached there
to, or the circumstances surrounding the
said employment, work or situation. No
employment agent shall offer or hold him
self out as in position to secure or fur
nish employment without having an Or
der therefor from an employer; and no
employment agent shall miSrepresent any
other material matter in connection with
any employment, work or situation he
may offer or hold himself out In posi-
ton to secure.
Section 2394-S4 Every employment
agent shall assure himself beyond a reas-
tons whatsoever, whether spoken writ
ten or advertised in printed form, which
he makes with regard TO any employ
ment work or situation, and which leads
ployment, work or situation, are true and
cover all the material facts affecting the
employment in question.
Section 2394-86. No employment agent
or any employee or agent thereof, shall
divide or offer to divide or share direct
ly or indirectly, any fee, charge or COM
pensation received from any applicant for
employment with any employer, super
intendent, manager, foreman, or any
other person who hires help or to whom
help Is furnished by an employment
agent; and it shall be unlawful for any
employer, superintendent, manager,
foreman, or any other person who hires
help to receive any compensation or any
valuable consideration from any appii-
cant for employment or from any en-
ployment agent for giving employment to
said applicant or to any employees fur
nished by said employment agent.
Section 2394-S6. No person, firm, cor
poration or association shall engage in
the business of an employment agent for
profit, or receive any fee, charge, COM
mission or other compensation, directly
or indirectly, for services as an employ
ment agent without first having obtained
license from the industrial commits
sion of Wisconsin and executing a bond
as hereinafter provided. Said license
shall constitute a license from this state
to operate as an employment agent for
compensation and shall not be transfer
able to any other person or persons
whatever, or inure to the benefit of any
person other than the licensee.
Section 2394-87. Application for the
foregoing license shall be made to the In
dustrial commission and shall be accom-
panied by a bond in due form to the
state Of Wisconsin for the penal sum Of
one thousand dollars issued by surety
state to be approved by the industrial
commission, conditioned that the agent
will conform to and not violate any of
the duties terms, conditions or require
ments of sections 2394-82 to 2394-96. in
elusive, of the statutes.
Section 2394-88 The said license shall
be renewed annually and the fee for the
same shall be graded as follows: % In
cities of 10000 and over, every employ
ment agent supplying female help eXclu-
svely shall pay fifty dollars per annum.
All other employment agents shall pay
one hundred dollars per annum. ca In
all other cities the fee for employment
agents dealing exclusively with female
or employment agents, it shall be twenty
five dollars. The said fees shall be paid
to the industrial commission and shall be
transferred by 1t to the general fund of
the state treasury within one week Of
receipt.
Section 23s4-Ss. The industrial COM
mission is vested with the power and
jurisdiction to have such supervision of
necessary adequately to enforce and adj
minister all laws and lawful orders de-
signed to prevent fraud, misrepreSenta-
lions, false statements, or other unau-
thorized acts of such employment agent.
Section 2394-90. Any commissioner or
deputy of the commission may enter any
employment office or the place of bust
ness of any employment agent for the
purpose of collecting facts and statistics,
examining the records or registers kept
to the attention of such agent any law
or any order of the commission, or any
failure on the part of such employment
agent to comply Herewith. No employ
ment agent shall refuse to admit any
commissioner or deputy of the commits
sion to his place of business.
Section 2394-91. Any employment
agent receiving receiving from the COM
mission any blanks calling for informa-
ton required by it to carry into effect
the provisions of sections 23s4-S2 to
2394-95 inclusive, of the statutes, with
directions to fill the same, shall cause
the same to be properly filled out so as
to answer fully and correctly each ques-
ton therein propounded, and in case he
is unable to answer any question, he shall
give good and sufficient reason for such
failure, and said answer shall be verified
by two witnesses, and returned to the
commission at it's office within the period
fixed by the commission.
Section 2394-92 Every employment
agent shall file with the commission,
within a time fixed by the commission, a
schedule of the fees or charges made by
such employment agent both to appli-
cants for employment and for help for
any services rendered to such applicants,
together with all rules Or regulations
that may, in any manner, affect the fees
charged or to be charged for any service.
1t shall be unlawful for any employment
agent to charge, demand, collect or
ceive greater compensation for any SER
vice performed by him than is specified
in the schedule filed with the commission,
and no employment agent shall charge a
registration fee without permission from
the industrial commission.
Section 2394-93. 1t shall be the duty
of the industrial commission, and it shall
have power jurisdiction and authority
to issue licenses to employment agents.
and to refuse to issue such license when
ever, after due investigation, the COM
mission a majority of the members
thereof finds that the character Of the ap-
plicant makes him unfit to be an employ
ant Cno