Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1931
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hours for manufacturing. It was working at full speed, and was producing yarn, but this was necessary for the purpose of cleaning. It was held that the women were not employed in a manufacturing process. (d) Continuous Employment.—That is, not interrupted by an interval of at least halfan hour. Sees. 156 (2), post, p. 229. Penalty.—See s. 137, post, p. 204. 25. Hours of employment in textile factorves—children. |— With respect to the employment of children (a) in a textile factory, the following regulations shall be observed : (1) Children shall not be employed except on the system either of employment in morning and afternoon sets or of employment on alternate days only. (2) The period of employment for a child in a morning set shall, except on Saturday, begin at the same hour as if the child were a young person and end either— (a) at one o'clock in the afternoon ; or (b) if the dinner time begins before one o'clock, at the beginning of dinner time ; or (c) if the dinner time does not begin before two o’clock, at noon. (3) The period of employment for a child in an after- noon set shall, except on Saturday, begin either— (a) at one o'clock in the afternoon ; or (b) at any later hour at which the dinner time ter- minates ; or (c) if the dinner hour does not begin before two o’clock, and the morning set ends at noon, at noon ; and shall end at the same hour as if the child were a young person. (4) The period of employment for any child on Saturday shall begin and end at the same hour as if the child were a young person. (5) A child shall not be employed in two successive periods of seven days in the morning set, nor in two successive periods of seven days in an after- noon set, and a child shall not be employed on two successive Saturdays, nor on Saturday in any week if on any other day in the same week his period of employment has exceeded five hours and a half. F.A. E
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