Creation Of Free Employment Offices

Section provides for the creation of free employment offices.

R. S., ch. 48, sec. 53.

No Fee To Be Charged Person Applying For Employment

No fee shall be charged a person applying for employment through free employment offices, and any superintendent or clerk who shall accept same from any applicant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $25, nor more than $50, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than 30 days.

Sec. 59.

Session Laws for 1909. p. 213.

Private Employment Agencies

No person shall open or carry on any employment agency without having procured a license. Persons so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Penalty: fine of $50 to $200, or, on failure to pay the fine, imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Every license shall contain the name and street address of the person licensed and date of issue. No such agency shall be located on premises where intoxicating liquors are sold, except restaurants in office buildings. Licenses shall run for one year unless sooner revoked.

P. 214.

Bond

Persons procuring licenses must give bond. Any person aggrieved by the misconduct of any such licensed person may maintain action upon the bond of the employment agency in any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed.

P. 215.

Register

Every such licensed person shall keep a register in which shall be entered the dates of accepted applications for employment, name and address of the applicant to whom employment is offered or promised, and also of the person to whom applicant is sent for employment, and amount of the fee received. Information as to applications for help shall be entered in a different book.

P. 215.

Fees

A registration fee, not to exceed $2, may be charged, for which a receipt must be given showing name of applicant, date of payment and character of position or help applied for. Such fee shall be returned to any applicant after thirty and within sixty days from date of receipt, less the amount actually expended by the agency, for which an itemized account must be presented to the applicant upon request, if no position has been furnished to the applicant. A further fee, which may be agreed upon between the applicant and the agency, payable at a time agreed upon in writing, may be received by the agency before a position has been tendered to the applicant, but if the position so tendered is not accepted by or given such applicant, such fee, upon request, shall be refunded within three days after demand. Receipt must be given for this additional fee. If an employee is discharged within one week without his fault, another position shall be furnished or three-fifths of the fees paid by him returned. Any agency sending persons as contract laborers out of the city shall give such persons cards on which is written in a languauge with which such laborers are familiar, the following: name and address of the employer, nature of the work to be performed, wages offered, destination of the person employed, terms of transportation and probable duration of employment.

Character Of Employment - Places Of Ill Fame

No agency shall send any female help or servants or inmate or performer to any questionable place or place of bad repute, house of ill fame, or to any place of amusement kept for immoral purposes, the character of which such licensed person knows, either actually or by reputation.

P. 216.

Employment For Children

No licensed person shall accept any application made by or on behalf of any child or shall place any child in violation of the child labor law. Penalty for above, fine of from $50 to $200, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and the revocation of the license.

P. 217.

Enforcement

This act shall be enforced by the State Board of Commissioners of Labor and the Chief Inspector of Private Employment Agencies.

P. 218