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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74
Sitting accommodation for females employed in shops
Sitting accommodation for females employed in shops.
O. Every shopkeeper is hereby required to provide proper sitting accommodation for females employed in his shop, and if any shopkeeper fails to comply with the requirements of this section he shall for every week during which he so fails be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
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P. (1.) No shopkeeper shall—
| (a.) | Directly or indirectly prohibit or prevent, or make any rule or regulation prohibiting, any female employed in his shop from being seated when not actually and immediately engaged in the course of her employment; |
| (b.) | Require any such female to be so continuously employed in an employment, the course of which requires her to remain standing, as that reasonable intervals are not allowed to her in each day during which she may use the sitting accommodation provided; |
| (c.) | Dismiss from his employment or reduce the wages of any female on the ground that she has made use of such sitting accommodation, unless it be proved that she has used it for an unreasonably long time or an unreasonable number of times on any day. |
(2.) Any shopkeeper who shall offend against any provision of this section shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.