N.Y. Labor Law 354 – Conditions of manufacture
§ 354. Conditions of manufacture. 1. No person other than a person resident therein shall carry on industrial homework on any article in a home except as otherwise provided for under section three hundred fifty-one, subdivision two, paragraph b.
Terms Used In N.Y. Labor Law 354
- Employer: means any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, independent contractor, or any other person, delivers or causes to be delivered to another person, any materials to be manufactured in a home, and which are thereafter to be returned to him, not for the personal use of himself or of a member of his family, or to be delivered, mailed, or shipped to others. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
- Home: means a room or an apartment in any house. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
- Industrial homework: means the manufacturing in a home, in whole or in part, with or of material which has been furnished by an employer, of any article or articles to be returned to the said employer, or to be delivered, mailed, or shipped to others. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
- Industrial homeworker: means any person who manufactures in a home, in whole or in part, with or out of material furnished by an employer for industrial homework, any article or articles to be returned to such employer directly or indirectly, or to be delivered, mailed or shipped to others. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
- Person: includes a corporation, a copartnership or a joint stock association. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
2. No person shall carry on industrial homework except in accordance with this article.
3. No child shall be employed in manufacture in a home except in accordance with articles four and five of this chapter.
4. No employer having an employer's permit shall deliver or cause to be delivered or received any articles for or as a result of homework manufacture unless he shall keep in such form and forward to the commissioner at such intervals as he may by regulation prescribe and on such blanks as he may provide, a complete and accurate list of all persons engaged in industrial homework on materials furnished or distributed by him, of all places where such persons work, of all materials furnished and distributed to such persons described as the commissioner may require, of all goods which such persons have manufactured and of the wages paid to each industrial homeworker, and unless he shall attach to all materials delivered for homework manufacture a label bearing his name and address or place of business legibly written or printed in English.
5. No person shall do industrial homework, except in a home in which he resides, and unless his name is on a homeworker's certificate issued by the commissioner and permitting industrial homework to be done in such home, and unless such certificate is exposed clearly in the home in which industrial homework is being done.
6. No article of food, no dolls or dolls' clothing and no stuffed animals or other stuffed toys used in the same way as dolls shall be manufactured for a factory, either directly or through a contractor or for an employer, in a home.