Document Citation: 43 P.S. § 491-13

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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 43. LABOR
CHAPTER 9. REGULATION OF CERTAIN BUSINESSES
INDUSTRIAL HOMEWORK LAW

Date:
08/31/2009

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NOTICE: As to repeal of this section where inconsistent with 1 Pa.C.S. § 2301(d), see § 9(b)(3) of Act 1978, Oct. 4, P.L. 909, No. 173.

§ 491-13. Conditions of manufacture

Industrial homework on articles or materials manufactured for any person to whom an employer's permit has been issued shall be performed:--

(a) Only by a person possessing a valid home-worker's certificate.

(b) Only by persons over the age of sixteen years.

(c) Only by persons resident in the home in which the work is done.

(d) Only during such hours as may be fixed by law or regulation as permissible hours of labor in factories by persons of the same age and sex as the home-worker; and

(e) Only in a home that is clean and sanitary and free from any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease.

(f) Only by persons who are incapable of leaving their homes to work because of one of the reasons stated in section 11(b)(3).

Upon the issuance of an employer's permit to an employer, or representative contractor, or a contractor's permit to a contractor, such employer, representative contractor, or contractor, shall be deemed to have accepted responsibility for the observance of the conditions of manufacture specified by this section; and each of such conditions shall be deemed to be a condition of the employer's or contractor's permit to the same extent as though it were expressly set forth therein.