The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
CHAPTER 561-H. r. No. So5.

AN ACT prescribing hours Of labor and time
for meals for women in mercatile establish
ments, restaurants. lunch rooms, and eat
with, mechanical, manufacturing, telephone
and telegraph establishments. regulating
a aad OF a
class and repeating ali acts inconsistent
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the State
OF Minnesota:
Section 1. No female shall be employed in
any mercantile establishment, restaurant,
lunch room or eating house or kitchen op-
Grated in connection Herewith more than ten
hours In any one day or ffty-eight hours In
any enc week or In any mechanical or manu-
featuring establishment more than nine hours
week. OF in any telephone or Telegraph he eseap@
lishment more than nine hours In any one day
or hfty-four hours IN any ono week in cities
T. Provided that different superintendent Of
hours may be made for the sole purpose Of
the Week and further provided that tho pro-
ployment required in the canning or other
|or vegetables where the period of operating
an establishment requiring such employment
vded further that females m may BE-
in retail mercantile establishments not more
than eleven hours on Saturday each week
hfty-eight hours in any one week.
Every employer shall post in q conspicuous
place in every room in which such persons
number Of hours work, and the hours when
the time allowed for meals begins and ends.
The printed forms Of such notices shall be
provided by the commissioner OF labor.
The employment Of such person at any
time other than as stated in said printed
notice shall be deemed a violation Of the
lost on previous day Of the same Week in
upon Which he or she 0p was EMPLOYED OF DE-.
pendent, but no stopping of machinery for
less than thirty consecutive minutes shall
justify such overtime employment, nor shall
overtime employment be authorized until a
written report Of the day and hour Of its
occurrence and duration is sent to tho com
missioner Of labor. :
Sec. 2. In each such establishment at least
sixty minutes shall be allowed for the noon
day meal unless the commissioner Of labor
shall permit a shorter time.
Where employees are required or permitted
to work more than one hour after six o'clock
P. M. they shall be allowed at least twenty
minutes to obtain lunch before beginning to
work overtime.
Sec. 8. No more employees shall be re-
quired or permitted to work in room in any
of such employees not less than four hundred
CUBIC 1eet OF air space, unless by written
amount Of air space for each empoyee R
be reduced to not less than two hundred fifty
cubic feet Of air space.
iSec. 4. The owner, agent or lessee of any
| establishment shall provide In each work
| room thereof proper and sufficient means OF
ventilatfcn; If excessive heat be created or
II steam, gases, vapors, dust other i'm
purities that may be Injurious to health be
generated in the use Of such establishment
the rooms must be ventilated In such manner
to to. render them harmless 80 far as is prac-
| late the commissioner Of labor shall order
such ventilation to be provided.
Such owner, agent~ or lessee shall provide
such ventilation within twenty days after the
service upon him of such order and in case
Of failure to comply Herewith shall forfeit
day after the expiration of such twenty days.
to be recovered by the commissioner Of labor
In an action brought for that purpose.
Sec 3. Every factory and workshop IN
| this state where women and children are en-
| shall be lime washed painted at least once
in every twelve months. :
| Every floor OF any room OF any establish
ment herein named where women are en-
ployed shall be thoroughly cleaned with soap
and water at least once in six months and
establishment shall be thoroughly cleaned
/ with soap and water once in every week
Sec. g. Every employer. superintendent,
owner orr other agent Of any establishment
named In section hereof who violates
be guilty Of q m1sdemeanor.
| Sec. T. All acts or parts Of acts inconsYst-
ent herewith are hereby repealed.
+ Approved April %. 1913.
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