New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Chapter II - DIVISION OF LABOR STANDARDS
Subchapter C - Industrial Homework
Part 160 - Restriction Of Homework In All Industries
Section 160.2 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
As used in this regulation, the term:
(a) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner of Labor.
(b) Clerical work shall mean typing, stenciling, transcribing, copying, bookkeeping and stenographic work, but shall not include inserting, collating, labeling, nesting, sorting, stamping or similar work.
(c) Employer shall mean any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, independent contractor, or any other person, delivers or causes to be delivered to another person, any materials to be manufactured in a home, and which are thereafter to be returned to said person, not for the personal use of said person or a member of said person's family, or to be delivered, mailed or shipped to others.
(d) Home shall mean a room or apartment in any house.
(e) Homework shall mean the manufacturing in a home, in whole or in part, with or of material which has been furnished by an employer, of any article or articles to be returned to said employer, or to be delivered, mailed or delivered to others, but shall not include clerical work performed in a home.
(f) Homeworker shall mean any person who performs homework.
(g) Homework contractor or distributor shall mean any person who for the account or benefit of an employer delivers to a homeworker or any other person not engaged by such employer articles or materials to be manufactured in a home and thereafter to be returned to said person or otherwise disposed of in accordance with his direction.
(h) House shall mean any building in which one or more persons regularly sleep, and shall include outbuildings upon premises which include such building.
(i) Industrial establishment shall mean any premises, not in connection with a home, in which employees are engaged in work subject to this regulation.
(j) Manufacture, manufacturing, manufactured or making includes preparation, alteration, repair or finishing, in whole or in part, or handling in any way.
(k) On a full time basis shall mean 30 hours or more in a calendar week.
(l) Person includes an individual, firm, partnership, cooperative, association, or corporation.
