['Employee Relations']
['Home workers']
11/17/2023
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(a) Upon application by the homeworker and the employer on forms provided by the Wage and Hour Division, certificates may be issued to the applicant employer authorizing the employment of a particular worker in industrial homework in a particular industry, provided that the application is in proper form and sets forth facts showing that the worker:
(i) Is unable to adjust to factory work because of age or physical or mental disability; or
(ii) Is unable to leave home because the worker's presence is required to care for an invalid in the home; and
(i) Was engaged in industrial homework in the particular industry for which the certificate is applied, as such industry is defined in §530.1, prior to:
(A) April 4, 1942, in the button and buckle manufacturing industry;
(B) November 2, 1942, in the embroideries industry;
(C) April 1, 1941, in the gloves and mittens industry;
(D) October 7, 1942, in the handkerchief manufacturing industry;
(E) July 1, 1941, in the jewelry manufacturing industry; or
(F) March 5, 1942, in the women's apparel industry, except that if this requirement shall result in unusual hardship to the individual homeworker it shall not be applied; or
(ii) Is engaged in industrial homework under the supervision of a State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.
(b) No homeworker shall perform industrial homework for more than one employer in the same industry, but homework employment in one industry shall not be a bar to the issuance of certificates for other industries.
(Information collection requirements contained in paragraph (a) were approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 1235-0001).
[24 FR 729, Feb. 3, 1959, as amended at 43 FR 28470, June 30, 1978; 46 FR 50349, Oct. 9, 1981; 49 FR 44270, Nov. 5, 1984; 53 FR 45722, Nov. 10, 1988; 82 FR 2228, Jan. 9, 2017]
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