Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-25
new Law PROVIDES
9 HOUR WORKING
DAY FOR WOMEN
Applies to Women Employ
ed in Restaurants and
Hotels Only.

The state minimum wage and maxi
mum hour commission has issued an
order limiting the hours of work for
women in hotels and restaurants in
the state to nine hours a day, six
days week. This ruling was made
under authority of an act of the last
legislature. In effect, the ruling pro-
vides that con and after May 20,
1919, no female shall be employed or
be permitted to work in any hotel or
restaurant in the state more than
nine hours in any one day, nor more
tran six days a week, no more than
50 hours a week. "Notices are re-
CURED to be posted, stating the work.
ing hours of female employees Any in
quiry regarding the law should be
be addressed to the commissioner of
labor, state capitol, Little Rock. VIC
lations of the order are punishable
by fine of $25 to 500.
All Women Affected.
The general assembly of 1919
amended the minimum wage and
maximum hour law, bringing under
the provisions Of the law all females
employed in the state Prior to this
year year, the law only affected en-
ployment of females where as many
as four were working; the amended
law prohibits any woman working
more than nine hours any day or
more than six days week.
Order.
Whereas, under section II of act
191 of the acts of the general assem-
bly, of 1915, as amended by act 275
Of the acts of 1918, the minimum
wage and hour commission is au-
thorized and it is made the duty of
said commission to establish regu-
lations governing the employment of
females in hotels and restaurants in
the state; and, whereas, after due no.
tice, hearing was held on May IS,
1919, at which all parties interested
were given an opportunity to be
heard; therefore, it is ordered that;
First-On and after May 20, 1919
No Female shall be employed or be
permitted to work in any hotel or
restaurant in the state more than
nine hours in any one day, or more
than 81 hours in any one week, or
more than six days in any one week.
Second-That each owner, lessee
or manager shall post and keep post
ed in a convenient place in each hotel
and restaurant, in which females are
employed or permitted to work, a no.
tice printed in English, stating the
number of hours such females are
permitted or required to work on
each day of the week the hours of be-
ginning and ending work each day;
the recess allowed for meals or other
wise. That every employer shall keep
a time book or record of every female
employed, stating the number of
hours worked and the wages paid.
The commission, upon request in
writing, will hold hearings from time
to time at which interested parties
may appear and show cause, if any,
why those regulations shall not be in
force
These regulations shall be and re-
main in full force and effect from
and after May 20, 1919. The COM
nilsson retains jurisdiction of the SUBJ
ject matter for the purpose of MAX
ing further orders that it may deem
just and necessary.
Witness our hand this 18th day of
May, 1919.
MARY H. McCABE, Secretary.
By Order of the commission.
Note. Failure to comply with the
order subjects violator to a fine of
from $500 to $4,000.