TITLE 28

Labor and Labor Relations

CHAPTER 28-13

Measurement of Work in Textile Factories

SECTION 28-13-1



   § 28-13-1  Posting of job rates – Pick

clocks. –

(a) The occupier or manager of every textile factory shall post in every room

where any employees work by the job, in legible writing or printing, and in

sufficient numbers to be easily accessible to those employees, specifications

of the character of each kind of work to be done by them and the rate of

compensation.



   (b)(1) The specifications in the case of weaving rooms shall

state the intended and maximum length of a cut or piece, the count per inch of

thread, and the number of picks per inch, width of loom, width of cloth woven

in the loom, and the price per cut or piece, or per pound; or, if payment is

made per pick or per yard, the price per pick or per yard.



   (2) Each warp shall bear a designating ticket or mark of

identification. In mills operating looms on a piece rate basis, pick clocks

shall be placed on each loom in operation, and each weaver shall be paid

according to the number of picks registered on the clock.



   (c) This chapter shall not apply to so called gang looms or

to the weaving of carpets or elastic webbing.



   (d) Violation of any provision of this chapter shall for the

first offense be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars

($100), for the second offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars

($200), and for a subsequent offense by a fine of not more than five hundred

dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1936, ch. 2291, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 295, § 1; G.L. 1956, §

28-13-1.)