Rhode Island § 28-18-1 § 28-18-1. Purpose of chapter.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 28-18-1 — § 28-18-1. Purpose of chapter.

Rhode Island § 28-18-1

Title 28Labor and Labor Relations

Ch. 28-18Industrial Homework

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-18-1 (2026).

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§ 28-18-1. Purpose of chapter.
The employment of workers in industry in the state of Rhode Island under conditions
            resulting in unreasonably low wages and conditions injurious to their health and general
            welfare is a matter of grave and vital public concern. Any conditions of employment
            especially fostering such working conditions are therefore destructive of purposes
            already accepted as sound public policy by the general assembly and should be brought
            into conformity with that policy. Uncontrolled continuance of homework is such a condition;
            here wages are notoriously lower and working conditions endanger the health of the
            worker; the p

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§ 28-18-1. Purpose of chapter.

The employment of workers in industry in the state of Rhode Island under conditions resulting in unreasonably low wages and conditions injurious to their health and general welfare is a matter of grave and vital public concern. Any conditions of employment especially fostering such working conditions are therefore destructive of purposes already accepted as sound public policy by the general assembly and should be brought into conformity with that policy. Uncontrolled continuance of homework is such a condition; here wages are notoriously lower and working conditions endanger the health of the worker; the protection of factory industries, which must operate in competition with homework and of the workers employed in homeworking and of the public interest of the community at large in their health and well being, require strict control and gradual elimination of industrial homework.