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RI Gen L § 28-15-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-15 - Assignment of Future Wages|Section 28-15-7 - Effect of assignment.

§ 28-15-7. Effect of assignment.An assignment of future earnings or wages made in accordance with all of the provisions of this chapter shall bind all wages earned by the assignor within the period named in the assignment.History of Section.P.L. 1908, ch. 1551, § 7; G.L. 1909, ch. 260, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 304, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 292, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 28-15-7.
RI Gen L § 28-15-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-15 - Assignment of Future Wages|Section 28-15-8 - Assignments under small loan law.

§ 28-15-8. Assignments under small loan law.All assignments of wages made in accordance with the provisions of chapter 25 of title 19 for the purpose of securing any loan made in accordance with the provisions of that chapter, shall be exempt from provisions of this chapter that are inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 25 of title 19.History of Section.P.L. 1923, ch. 427, § 23; P.L. 1923, ch. 427, § 25; P.L. 1937, ch. 2496, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 292, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 28-15-8.
RI Gen L § 28-15-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-15 - Assignment of Future Wages|Section 28-15-9 - Wage deductions exempt.

§ 28-15-9. Wage deductions exempt.(a) None of the sections of this chapter shall be applicable to, control, or prohibit the deduction from wages of an employee by an employer in accordance with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement entered into with the employer by a labor organization which is the authorized collective bargaining agent of a majority of the employees in a bargaining unit of employees in which the employee is employed; provided, that the amount deducted from the wages of the employee is to be: (1) used for the purpose of defraying the costs of legal services, counsel fees, or contribution to a prepaid legal services plan for those employees, their families, and their dependents, or (2) paid to pension, welfare, vacation, or annuity plans or an annuity plan or an insurance plan for accident, health, disability, or life coverage or similar plans, complete provisions for which are contained in a collective bargaining agreement or a supplemental agreement as provided in the agreement between the employer and the authorized bargaining agent of the employees and the plans are for the benefit of employees, their dependents, and beneficiaries in the bargaining unit, including full-time employees of the labor organization, provided it shall make the same payment for its employees to the plan or plans.(b) None of the sections of this chapter shall be applicable to, control, or prohibit the deduction from wages of an employee by an employer in accordance with a written request made by the individual employee of:(1) Trade union or craft dues or other obligations imposed by a collective bargaining contract;(2) Subscriptions to a nonprofit hospital service corporation or nonprofit medical and/or surgical service corporation;(3) Contributions to or for the use of a religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational corporation, trust, community chest, fund, or foundation;(4) Payments for the purpose of purchasing obligations of the United States or stock of a corporation pursuant to an employee stock purchase plan;(5) Contributions to a pension plan in which the employee is a participant not required by a collective bargaining agreement entered into between the authorized collective bargaining representative of an employee and his or her employer;(6) Contributions to or for insurance or under an insurance plan for accident, health, or life coverage not required by a collective bargaining agreement entered into between the authorized collective bargaining representative of an employee and his or her employer;(7) Amounts to be credited to a share, deposit, or loan account in any credit union; or(8) Contributions, subscriptions, or payments of a similar nature not connected with past or present indebtedness.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 292, § 9; P.L. 1947, ch. 1944, § 1; P.L. 1950, ch. 2631, § 1; P.L. 1954, ch. 3361, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-15-9; P.L. 1972, ch. 206, § 2; P.L. 1974, ch. 189, § 2.
RI Gen L § 28-16-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-16 - Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws|Section 28-16-1 - Power of department to assist in enforcement of federal law.

§ 28-16-1. Power of department to assist in enforcement of federal law.The Rhode Island department of labor and training is empowered to assist and cooperate with the administrator of the wage and hour and public contracts division and the director of the bureau of labor standards of the United States Department of Labor, in the administration and the enforcement within this state of the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. The department is further authorized to accept payment and/or reimbursement for its services as provided by that act. Assistance and cooperation may include the designation by the director of the department of labor and training of state employees to investigate federal and state violations of wage, hour, and child labor provisions and regulations and may provide for joint inspection.History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 895, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-16-1.
RI Gen L § 28-16-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-16 - Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws|Section 28-16-2 - Agreements with federal agencies.

§ 28-16-2. Agreements with federal agencies.The department of labor and training is authorized to enter into agreements with the wage and hour and public contracts divisions and/or the bureau of labor standards of the United States department of labor for assistance and cooperation, and is authorized, from time to time, to amend the agreements; provided, that any agreement or amendment of it shall be subject to the regulations of the administrator of the wage and hour and public contracts divisions and/or the director of the bureau of labor standards of the United States Department of Labor and shall be subject to the approval of the governor.History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 895, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-16-2.
RI Gen L § 28-16-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-16 - Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws|Section 28-16-3 - Receipt and disbursement of federal funds - State appropriations.

§ 28-16-3. Receipt and disbursement of federal funds — State appropriations.The general treasurer shall receive and provide for the proper custody of all funds paid to the state from the federal treasury under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and shall disburse those funds upon orders drawn by the controller upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the director of the department of labor and training. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the department of labor and training to spend in excess of its appropriation from state funds except to the extent that the excess may be paid and/or the appropriation may be reimbursed by the United States Department of Labor through the federal treasury; and, provided, that the payment and request for reimbursement shall be approved by the director of administration.History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 895, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1951, ch. 2727, art. 1, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-16-3.
RI Gen L § 28-17-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-17 - Employees' Trusts|Section 28-17-1 - Definitions.

§ 28-17-1. Definitions.(a) "Employees' trust" as used in this chapter means any trust created by an employer for the maintenance and regulation of an apprentice training program, and any trust created as part of a stock bonus plan, pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, or profit sharing plan for the exclusive benefit of some or all of his or her employees or their beneficiaries, to which contributions are made by the employer or employees or both, for the purpose of distributing in accordance with the plan to those employees or their beneficiaries the earnings or the principal, or both earnings and principal, of the trust fund, provided that it is impossible under the trust instrument at any time prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities with respect to employees and their beneficiaries under the trust for any part of the corpus or income to be at any time used for or diverted to purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of those employees or their beneficiaries.(b) "Employer" as used in this chapter includes a group of employers or any combination of employers and a labor union creating a combined plan or trust for the benefit of their apprentices, employees, or the beneficiaries of employees.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1346, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-17-1; P.L. 1963, ch. 192, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-17-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-17 - Employees' Trusts|Section 28-17-2 - Accumulation of income - Perpetuities - Suspension of power of alienation.

§ 28-17-2. Accumulation of income — Perpetuities — Suspension of power of alienation.The income arising from any personal property held in any employees' trust as defined in § 28-17-1 may be permitted to accumulate in accordance with the terms of the trust and the plan to which the trust forms a part for any time that may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the trust has been created. An employees' trust shall not be deemed to be invalid as violating the rule against perpetuities or any law or rule against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to property, but may continue for any time that may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it has been created.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1346, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-17-2.
RI Gen L § 28-17-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-17 - Employees' Trusts|Section 28-17-3 - Tax exemption.

§ 28-17-3. Tax exemption.The intangible personal property held in any employees' trust as defined in § 28-17-1 shall be exempt from all sales and use taxes and all other state and local taxation so long as it is held in trust and used for the purposes of the trust and of the plan of which the trust forms a part. The right of any employee or beneficiary under the plan to any pension, annuity, or retirement allowance or to the return of contributions, and any other benefit or right accrued or accruing to any person under the terms of the trust or plan shall be exempt from all local taxation and state taxation except for the personal income tax imposed under the provisions of chapter 30 of title 44.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1346, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-17-3; P.L. 1963, ch. 192, § 1; P.L. 1967, ch. 196, § 1; P.L. 1985, ch. 496, art. 2, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-17-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-17 - Employees' Trusts|Section 28-17-4 - Immunity from attachment, process, or assignment.

§ 28-17-4. Immunity from attachment, process, or assignment.The interest of any person in any employees' trust as defined in § 28-17-1 and any pension derivable from that trust shall not be subject to trustee process or liable to attachment on any writ, original, mesne, or judicial, or be taken on execution or any process, legal or equitable; and no assignment of any interest or pension shall be valid.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1346, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 28-17-4.
RI Gen L § 28-18-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-1 - Purpose of chapter.

§ 28-18-1. Purpose of chapter.The employment of workers in industry in the state of Rhode Island under conditions resulting in unreasonably low wages and conditions injurious to their health and general welfare is a matter of grave and vital public concern. Any conditions of employment especially fostering such working conditions are therefore destructive of purposes already accepted as sound public policy by the general assembly and should be brought into conformity with that policy. Uncontrolled continuance of homework is such a condition; here wages are notoriously lower and working conditions endanger the health of the worker; the protection of factory industries, which must operate in competition with homework and of the workers employed in homeworking and of the public interest of the community at large in their health and well being, require strict control and gradual elimination of industrial homework.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 183, § 1; P.L. 1946, ch. 1784, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-1.
RI Gen L § 28-18-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-2 - Definitions.

§ 28-18-2. Definitions.The following terms as used in this chapter have the following meanings:(1) "Director" means the director of labor and training.(2) "Employer" means any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, subcontractor, independent contractor, or any other person delivers, distributes, supplies, or furnishes or causes to be delivered, distributed, supplied, or furnished to another person any materials to be processed in a home, including the home of the employer, and which are subsequently to be returned to him or her or to some person acting on his or her behalf, not for the personal use of himself or herself or of a member of his or her family.(3) "Home" means any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house, or other residential building or any part of these.(4) "Industrial homework" means the processing in a home, including the home of the employer in whole or in part, of material furnished by an employer of any article or articles to be returned to the employer.(5) "Industrial homeworker" means any person who processes in a home, in whole or in part, out of material furnished by an employer for industrial homework any article or articles to be returned to the employer directly or indirectly.(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, firm, trustee, receiver, and assignee for the benefit of creditors or corporations, except charitable organizations.(7) "Processing" means manufacturing, finishing, repairing, preparing, altering, packing, wrapping, or handling any material.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 2; P.L. 1948, ch. 2110, §§ 1, 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-2.
RI Gen L § 28-18-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-3 - Issuance of homework licenses.

§ 28-18-3. Issuance of homework licenses.(a) The distribution of industrial homework as defined in § 28-18-2(4) is prohibited except where licenses and certificates have been obtained from the director of labor and training.(b) The director of labor and training may issue a license as provided in this chapter only if the employer maintains an establishment in this state in which persons are employed on operations the same as or similar to the proposed homework operations and if the homeworker is paid at least the same rate as that paid to workers on the same or similar operations in the establishment.(c) The director of labor and training shall issue licenses to employers and certificates permitting industrial homework to industrial homeworkers who have reached the age of fifty (50) years, or who are physically disabled and not able to go to the employer's place of business to work.(d) The director of labor and training shall issue licenses to employers and certificates to industrial homeworkers regardless of whether the homeworkers are physically disabled or have reached the age of fifty (50) years, in any industry where homework is customary in Rhode Island, permitting the industrial homework.(e) The director of labor and training shall not issue the licenses in any cases or industries:(1) Where it would unduly jeopardize the factory workers in the industry both as to wages and working conditions;(2) It would unduly injure the health and welfare of the industrial homeworker;(3) It would unduly jeopardize the public health and safety to have those industrial homework products distributed; or(4) In any industry where experience has proven that homework in that industry is not susceptible of effective regulation.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; P.L. 1948, ch. 2110, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-3; P.L. 1999, ch. 83, § 63; P.L. 1999, ch. 130, § 63.
RI Gen L § 28-18-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-4 - Revocation or suspension of license or certificate.

§ 28-18-4. Revocation or suspension of license or certificate.The director of labor and training may revoke or suspend the license of any employer or the certificate of any industrial homeworker for a violation by that employer or industrial homeworker of the terms of his or her license or certificate or any provisions of this chapter, or of any regulation made by the director of labor and training, or for noncompliance with an order issued by him or her within the time specified in the order. No license or certificate shall be refused, revoked, or suspended unless the holder previously had reasonable notice and the opportunity to be heard.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-4.
RI Gen L § 28-18-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-5 - Employer's license and renewal fees.

§ 28-18-5. Employer's license and renewal fees.(a) A fee of three hundred dollars ($300) shall be paid to the director of labor and training on behalf of the state of Rhode Island for the original issuance of an employer's license.(b) For each annual renewal of an employer's license, the employer shall pay to the director of labor and training a fee of:(1) Forty dollars ($40.00) where the employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to five (5) persons or less;(2) Eighty dollars ($80.00) where the employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to from five (5) to twenty (20) persons;(3) One hundred fifty dollars ($150) where an employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to from twenty (20) to one hundred (100) persons;(4) Three hundred dollars ($300) where an employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to more than one hundred (100) persons.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; P.L. 1945, ch. 1608, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-5; P.L. 1960, ch. 74, § 12.
RI Gen L § 28-18-5.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-5.1 - Contractor's permit required.

§ 28-18-5.1. Contractor's permit required.No person in any industry where experience has proven that homework in the industry is not susceptible of effective regulations shall deliver, distribute, supply, or furnish any materials to be processed by another person unless that person has been issued a contractor's permit by the director of labor and training.History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 284, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-18-5.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-5.2 - Permit required to process goods or materials.

§ 28-18-5.2. Permit required to process goods or materials.No person may perform any process on goods or material owned by another unless the person has been issued a permit by the director of labor and training.History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 284, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-18-5.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-5.3 - Location of contract shop.

§ 28-18-5.3. Location of contract shop.No contract shop may be operated in any home as defined in § 28-18-2(3).History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 284, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-18-5.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-5.4 - Contractor's permit fees.

§ 28-18-5.4. Contractor's permit fees.An annual fee of one hundred twenty dollars ($120) shall be paid to the director of labor and training for a contractor's permit. The proceeds derived under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited as general revenues.History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 284, § 1; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 31, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 40, § 90; P.L. 2002, ch. 65, art. 13, § 6.
RI Gen L § 28-18-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-6 - Rules and regulations.

§ 28-18-6. Rules and regulations.The director of labor and training shall issue rules and regulations designed to control and regulate industrial homework where it is permitted, and to carry out the provisions of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-6.
RI Gen L § 28-18-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-18 - Industrial Homework|Section 28-18-7 - Investigations and inspections - Communicable diseases.

§ 28-18-7. Investigations and inspections — Communicable diseases.The director of labor and training shall enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter and the director or his or her authorized representative is directed to investigate and gather data regarding wages, hours, and working conditions in the homework industry in this state and is empowered to enter and inspect those places and records and investigate those matters as he or she deems appropriate to aid in the enforcement of this chapter. The director of labor and training shall inspect every home in which industrial homework is permitted and the materials issued to the industrial homeworker. If the inspection discloses that the home is not clean, the director of labor and training shall order the tenant to immediately clean it. If the inspection discloses that the home is in an unsanitary condition, or that there is an infectious or communicable disease, he or she shall immediately notify the state department of health and the local public health officials. The director of labor and training shall report to each local health officer the names and addresses of all industrial homeworkers in his or her city or town, and the local health officer shall notify the director of labor and training within twenty-four (24) hours of any cases of communicable or infectious disease in the industrial homeworkers' homes. The director of labor and training shall order employers to suspend the distribution of homework to those homes until further notice.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; P.L. 1948, ch. 2110, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-7.