§ 28-11-3 - Contracts varying length of day on street railways. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 28-11-3

   § 28-11-3  Contracts varying length of dayon street railways. – The true intent and purpose of §§ 28-11-2 – 28-11-4 is declaredto be to limit the usual hours of labor of the conductor and operator employeesof street railway corporations, in the absence of agreement as to hours betweenthe employees and their employer, to ten (10) hours actual work a day, to beperformed within a period of twelve (12) consecutive hours, whether theemployees are employed by the trip or trips, the job, the hour, the day, theweek, the month or in any other manner. Nothing contained in this chapter shallbe construed to forbid or prevent any employee, being eighteen (18) years ofage or upwards, from laboring a greater or lesser number of hours a day inaccordance with his or her contract to do so, nor to impose any penalty uponany person or corporation for permitting these employees to labor a greater orlesser number of hours in the performance of the contract.