Title 28, Title 28 and Labor Relations

Any cost of obtaining or returning material for industrial homework or the completed product shall be borne by the employer.

No person shall carry on industrial homework except in accordance with this chapter and in accordance with the provisions of any other state law or regulation. Every person desiring to employ homeworkers in this state must procure from the director of labor and training an employ…

No employer shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, any materials or articles to be manufactured by any homeworker unless there has been conspicuously affixed to each article or its container a label or other mark of identification bearing the employer’s name and address, printe…

Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) for each offense. Each day any violation occurs or contin…

This chapter does not apply to any corporation organized for a purpose authorized by § 7-6-4 or to any individual or organization engaged in providing work of a philanthropic, educational, or therapeutic nature.

If any provision of this chapter, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected by the invalidity.

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…

(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 t…

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 o…

(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…

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 b…

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.

No contract shop may be operated in any home as defined in § 28-18-2(3).

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.

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.

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…

The director of labor and training, or his or her authorized representative, may remove any material or article that is being processed in a home in violation of any provision of this chapter and may retain it until claimed by the employer. If the material or article is labeled a…

In the administration of this chapter the director or his or her authorized representative shall have the power to administer oaths; take affidavits and the depositions of witnesses; and issue subpoenas for and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, book…