§ 28-18-3 - Issuance of homework licenses. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 28-18-3

   § 28-18-3  Issuance of homework licenses.– (a) The distribution of industrial homework as defined in § 28-18-2(4) isprohibited except where licenses and certificates have been obtained from thedirector of labor and training.

   (b) The director of labor and training may issue a license asprovided in this chapter only if the employer maintains an establishment inthis state in which persons are employed on operations the same as or similarto the proposed homework operations and if the homeworker is paid at least thesame rate as that paid to workers on the same or similar operations in theestablishment.

   (c) The director of labor and training shall issue licensesto employers and certificates permitting industrial homework to industrialhomeworkers who have reached the age of fifty (50) years, or who are physicallydisabled and not able to go to the employer's place of business to work.

   (d) The director of labor and training shall issue licensesto employers and certificates to industrial homeworkers regardless of whetherthe homeworkers are physically disabled or have reached the age of fifty (50)years, in any industry where homework is customary in Rhode Island, permittingthe industrial homework.

   (e) The director of labor and training shall not issue thelicenses in any cases or industries:

   (1) Where it would unduly jeopardize the factory workers inthe industry both as to wages and working conditions;

   (2) It would unduly injure the health and welfare of theindustrial homeworker;

   (3) It would unduly jeopardize the public health and safetyto have those industrial homework products distributed; or

   (4) In any industry where experience has proven that homeworkin that industry is not susceptible of effective regulation.