Employer: any person who, directly or indirectly, or through an employee or agent, furnishes to another person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon in a home, and thereafter to be returned to himself or on his order, for use other than the personal use of himself or ofa member of his family.
li.Qnli:: any room, house, apartment or other premises, whichever is most extensive, used in whole or in part as a place of dwelling.
Industrial homework: any manufacture of or work upon materials or articles in a home for an employer, exclusive of domestic service. .
The verb "to manufacture", as used in its different modes and tenses, includes to prepare, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part.
- (1) No wage paid to industrial homeworkers shall be less than the State or Federal minimum wage rate, whichever is higher. This minimum rate must be paid whether the industrial homeworker is paid by the hour or by the piece.
- (2) Industrial homeworkers who, whP.n combining the time worked at the employer's plant or factory or place of work and the homeworker's home, work over 40 hours a week for the same employer, shall receive no less than time and a half their regular rate for those hours worked after 40.
- (3) Every employer of industrial homeworkers who pays such homeworkers by the piece shall supply each such person, at the time of delivery of such work to the homeworker, a printed or written ticket stating the amounts paid and the basis for the remuneration.