§ 28-18-1 - Purpose of chapter. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 28-18-1

   § 28-18-1  Purpose of chapter. – The employment of workers in industry in the state of Rhode Island underconditions resulting in unreasonably low wages and conditions injurious totheir health and general welfare is a matter of grave and vital public concern.Any conditions of employment especially fostering such working conditions aretherefore destructive of purposes already accepted as sound public policy bythe general assembly and should be brought into conformity with that policy.Uncontrolled continuance of homework is such a condition; here wages arenotoriously lower and working conditions endanger the health of the worker; theprotection of factory industries, which must operate in competition withhomework and of the workers employed in homeworking and of the public interestof the community at large in their health and well being, require strictcontrol and gradual elimination of industrial homework.