The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-03-05

The bill is aimed to make workingG
conditions more healthful for women
and girls who are compelled to earn
their living by daily employment and
afford them a protection from en-
ployers who are prone to compel long
or unreasonable hours of labor. If the
bill is recommended out by the COM
mittee and is passed to become a law
it will require a. considerable read
justment of Working hour schedules in
several lines of industry but it's spon-
sors believe it will afford a much
needed protection for female workers.
The bill as introduced is as follows:
A BILL FOR AN ACT TO PROMOTE
THE HEALTH AND WELFARE
OF FEMALE EMPLOYEES BY
LIMITING THE HOURS OF EN-
PLOYMEN" AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLA
TION THEREOF.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section /. No female shall be en-
ployed at any business or service
whatever more than eight hours in
any one day or forty eight hours in
o''S ofiC WEN, pIOVAueu llldl ILLS ACT
shall not apply to women employed
as domestics in the home.
Section 2. Any employer or any
agent acting fer an employer who
shall require or permit or suffer any
female to work at any business or
service whatever more than the num-
ber of hours provided for in Section
l of this act, more than eight hours
in any one day or more than forty
eight hours in any one week; Or who
shall fail, neglect or refuse SO to ar
range the work of females in his en-
ploy thatfthey shall not work more
than the number of hours provided
for in this act during any one day or
any one week or who shall permit or
suffer any overseer, superintendent,
. foreman Or forelady, or other agents
of any employer to violate any Of the
provisions of this act, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be fined for each
offense in the sum of not less than
twenty-five dollars or more than one
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
for net more than sixty days, at the
discretion of the court; and whenever
any person shall have been notified
by the commissioner of labor, or his
assistants, or by the service of sum-
mons in a prosecution that he is vio-
lating such provision, he shall be pun
ished by like penalties in addition to
each and every day that such VIOLA
ton shall have continued after such
notification.
Section 8. In every establishment
provided for in Section / of this act
at least sixty minutes shall be allowe
for meals unless the commissioner OF
labor shall permit a shorter time.
Such permit must be in writing and
conspicuously posted in the workroom
ct the establishment where woman
are employed, ard may be revoked al
any time.
Section 4. Every employer to whom
this act shall apply shall keep posted
in a conspicuous place in the work
room where such females shall be
employed or permitted to work, a
printed abstract Of the provisions Of
this act.
Section 5. printed schedule stat
ing the number of hours per day fol
each day of the week required of such
persons and the time when such work
shall begin and end. shall be KEEP
posted in a conspicuous place in each
room where females are employed
but such persons may begin Their
work after the time of beginning AND
stops9before thestime for ending such
work mentioned in this notice, bu1
they shall not otherwise he employed
or permitted or suffered to work ii
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