The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-29
PLUMBING and HEATING
NOTICE.
SPECIAL

At meeting OF the board OF health.
held on January 2S, 1920. the following
rules and regulations were adopted:
Whereas the city of Richmond in
common with other cities of the coun-
t-y Is now threatened with an epidemic
Of influenza which is recognized AS an
infectious and dangerous disease: and
Whereas the employers of the city
have held n meeting in the Chamber OF
Commerce and requested the promul-
cation of regulations in regard to the
opening and closing hours for work of
employees SO as to minimize the risk of
infection consequent upon the conges-
ton of The public means Of travel that
results from requiring the same gen
eral hours fer beginning and ending
the days labor; now, therefore,
BE 1t resolved by the board OF health
Of the city of Richmond, and it is
hereby ordered:
! That the employers Of the city Of
Richmond are hereby divided into the
following groups and are ordered and
directed to observe the following regu-
latjons:
J. Persons. firms and corporations
" no are manufacturers or conduct re-
pair shops including railroad shops.
street railway shops and autor ohile
and machine shops. shall not require
or permit their employees as class or
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the hours Of s A. NJ and 10 A. NJ on
any work day, nor require or permit
them to end work for the day between
the hours Of 80 + NJ and $40 + NJ.
An such persons, firms and corpora
tons who employ at their places OF
business more than FIVE persons shall.
III their hours for beginning the days
work are between a. NJ. and S 4. NJ 81,
d'vide their employees as nearly as pos
EthIE three classes Of annal ~
hers and require one class to report
for work at 4. M: another at 100
A. NJ and the third at A. M: and II
their hours for ending the days work
are between 4:30 z. NJ and Sac r NJ.
they shall require one class to cease
work for the day at 80 2. VI. another
! a. p NJ and the third at $50 ?, VI.
Employers of this class employing
FIVE employees or less must conform to
the hours Of opening and closing pre-
sCrihsd for the class.
. No wholesale merchant shall re-
0Gire or permit his employees. as a
: class or group, including office en-
pIayes. TO report for work between the
hours of A. NJ and . A NJ nor be-
tween the hours of 8 A. NJ and 10 A.
/ NJ: nor saali he require or permit them
to cease work for the day between the
hours OF 80 and 80 r. M. but every
such merchant shall require his said
employees TO report for work at A NJ.
and TO cease work at $40 p. NJ
3. No retail merchant shall permit or
require his employees as class or
group. including office employees to
report for work between the hours Of
/ A ". and $50 A. NJ. nor TO cease
work for the day between the hours
/ o. 40 =, NJ. and 6 Y, NJ, nor at s 80
=. NJ but every such merchant shall
require said employees to report for
work at 80 A. NJ. and to cease work
for the day at 6 2. NJ
1. Ne other business or professional
man shall require or permit his en-
ployes. as a class or group. 10 report
for duty between the hours Of A NJ.
! and 10 A. NJ, nor TO cease work for the
| day between the hours of 4.31 +. NJ.
and $50 r. NJ. but shall require said
employees To report for work AZ o A. NJ,
and TO cease work at $50 +, M.
| II Any person. Arm OF corporation
! may adopt and require another hour
! than those hereinhefore designated for
Ire beginning and ending of work by
+ his employees provided the hour so
i chosen is not one forbidden to him by
these regulations
Ill All business concerns -runrir =
.twenty-four hours a day and working
employees by shifts shall conform TO the
schedule Of hours above named 10 the
e. tent OF SO arranging the shifts that
no shift shall come on or so off duty or
work during the hours above specified
for some other group or class thereof
than his own. and IL EuCh business
concern is in group numbered one Gl
may use any Of the hours designated
for the classes 81 group for "a shift
] ". These regulations shah not apply
n acts done in Sudden emergencies
other than OF business character nor
! in cases Of illness and the like.
+ V. Nothing in these regulations shall
apply to wholesale or retail dealers in
foodstuffs, wholesale and retail drug
stores banks, trust companies or 10
national. stnte or municipal officers
ard employees.
VI, These regulations shall be ohi-
ratory and binding upon all employers
in the city of Richmond until revoked
or amended by the board of health. and
for any failure 10 observe the same or
violation thereof the person. firm or
corporation guilty thereof shall be liza
bic to fine of not less than two nor
more than TWENTY-FIVE dollars. recov-
cradle before the police justice of the
city of Richmond.