No employer shall deliver, or cause to be delivered or received, any articles for, or as a result of, homework processing, unless he or she keeps in any form and forward to the director of labor and training at the intervals that the director may by regulation prescribe on any blanks that he or she may provide, a complete and accurate list of all:

(1)  Persons engaged in industrial homework of materials furnished and distributed by that employer;

(2)  Places where industrial homeworkers work;

(3)  Materials furnished and distributed to industrial homeworkers;

(4)  Goods that those industrial workers have processed; and

(5)  Rates of wage paid to each of those industrial homeworkers.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-10

  • Director: means the director of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
  • Employer: means any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, subcontractor, independent contractor, or any other person delivers, distributes, supplies, or furnishes, or causes to be delivered, distributed, supplied, or furnished, to another person any materials to be processed in a home, including the home of the employer, and that are subsequently to be returned to him or her or to some person acting on his or her behalf, not for the personal use of himself or herself or of a member of his or her family. 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
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, firm, trustee, receiver, and assignee for the benefit of creditors or corporations, except charitable organizations. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
  • Processing: means manufacturing, finishing, repairing, preparing, altering, packing, wrapping, or handling any material. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2

No employer shall deliver, or cause to be delivered or received, any articles for or as the result of, homework processing to any person who has not obtained a certificate from the director of labor and training permitting industrial homework to be done by him or her.

History of Section.
P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 4; P.L. 1945, ch. 1608, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-10.