The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-30
Retail Stores
Getting Under
TheNewCOde
One of Three Schedules Of
Operation Must Be
Adopted
MINIMUM WAGE in
HENDERSONVILLE SO


Hendersonville merchants to-
day were adjusting their store
hours, work hours and wages of
employees to comply with provi-
sions Of the national retail code
which became effective today. In
dications were that most stores
would adopt a 56-hour weekly
schedule, although others may
elect to remain open for as little
as 50 hours or for 60 hours or
more.
The code covers all establish
ments selling merchandise to the
consumer except those for whose
business a separate code has been
submitted to the administration.
For instance, feed stores. florist
shops, bakeries and coal dealers,
among others, have submitted
separate codes for their respec-
tive industries and are therefore
not under the provisions of the
retail code. Certain types of re-
tail stores are also exempt. Those
include those selling milk and its
products tobacco and its prod
ucts, and foods and foodstuffs.
These will be governor by in
dividual codes.
Under the child labor provi-
sions of the code persons ID and
Is years of age may be employed
either (a) for period not to
exceed 3 hours per day on 6 days
a week or (b) for one day, not
to exceed s hours per week. All
such employment must be be-
tween z a. M. and z p. m. and
must not conflict with the en-
ploye's hours of day school. No
person under &c can be employed
in delivering merchandise from
motor vehicles. This includes
motorcycle delivery.
The code provides three scbed-
ules of store operation and work
ing hours and the employer must
choose which of the schedules he
will operate under. My Monday,
Nov. 6, the employer is required
to post and maintain in a con-
spicuous place in his establish
ment a copy of the schedule he
is working under, showing the
store hours of operation and the
employees working hours. This is
for the information of the gen.
eral public as we'll as the en-
ployes and should be prominent
ly displayed. =.
After an employer selects his
schedule of operation it cannot
be changed except upon Decem-
Der 81 of each year. He may,
however, at any time increase the
number of hours his store is open
provided he does not increase the
working week of his employees
from those of the schedule under
which he originally elects to OPP
crate. For example. if an en-
ployer elects to operate under
Group A which calls for not less
than So nor more than 30 hours
per week of store operation and
an employee work-week OF 4O
hours, and after a while decides
he wants to keep his store open
so hours per week, he Is prlVli-
eyed to do so. but cannot work
his employees more than 40 hours
a week as per his original sched-
ule.
The schedules mentioned above
are as follows:
GROUP Amy establishment
may elect to remain open for
business less than fifty-six (56)
hours but not less than fifty
two (52) hours per week, unless
its store hours were less than
fifty-two (52) hours prior TO
June /, 1888, in which case such
establishment shall not reduce its
store hours; no employe of these
establishments shall work more
than forty (40) hours per week,
nor more than eight (8) hours
per day, nor more than six co.
days per week.
GROUP B-Any establishment
may elect to remain open for
business fifty-six (56) hours or
more per week but less than
sixty-three (63) hours per week;
no employe of such establishment
shall work more than forty-four
(44) hours per week, no more
than nine COZ hours per day, nor
more than six co. days per week.
GROUP C-Any establishment
may elect to remain open for
business sixty-three (63) hours
or more per week; no employe of
such establishment shall work
more than forty-eight (48) hours
per week, nor more than ten
(1O) hours per day, nor more
than six co. days per week.
The hours worked by any en-
ploye during each day must be
consecutive, that is, he cannot
work on the so-called shift sys-
TEN whereby he works so many
hours in the morning, lays off
for a number of hours in the
middle of the day and then re-
turns to work again in the after
noon. An interval not longer