Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-7. Investigations and inspections – Communicable diseases
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 and is empowered to enter and inspect those places and records and investigate those matters as he or she deems appropriate to aid in the enforcement of this chapter. The director of labor and training shall inspect every home in which industrial homework is permitted and the materials issued to the industrial homeworker. If the inspection discloses that the home is not clean, the director of labor and training shall order the tenant to immediately clean it. If the inspection discloses that the home is in an unsanitary condition, or that there is an infectious or communicable disease, he or she shall immediately notify the state department of health and the local public health officials. The director of labor and training shall report to each local health officer the names and addresses of all industrial homeworkers in his or her city or town, and the local health officer shall notify the director of labor and training within twenty-four (24) hours of any cases of communicable or infectious disease in the industrial homeworkers’ homes. The director of labor and training shall order employers to suspend the distribution of homework to those homes until further notice.
History of Section.
P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; P.L. 1948, ch. 2110, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-7.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-7
- Department: means the department of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
- Director: means the director of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
- Home: means any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house, or other residential building or any part of these. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
- Industrial homework: means the processing in a home, including the home of the employer in whole or in part, of material furnished by an employer of any article or articles to be returned to the employer. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
- Industrial homeworker: means any person who processes in a home, in whole or in part, out of material furnished by an employer for industrial homework any article or articles to be returned to the employer directly or indirectly. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
- town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9