HomeMy WebLinkAbout59 of 1919 - Relating to Employment Offices ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City,Utah, uot, 23. ,191._9..
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Crabbe 1 move that the ordinance be passed.
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Mr. Chairman
AN ORDINANCE
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An ortlinmnoe repealing Sections 717 to 736, in-
clusive,of Chapter 22, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake
City, 1913, relating to employment offices and enacting
in lieu thereof 'eighteen new sections to be known as
Sections 717 to 734, inclusive.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners
of Salt Lake City, Utah.
SECTION 1. That Sections 717 to 736, inclusive,
in Chapter 22, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1913,
relating to employment offices be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 2. There are hereby enacted eighteen
new sections in Chapter 22, Revised Ordinances of Salt
Lake City, 1913, relating to employment offices to be
known as Sections 717 to 734, both inclusive, which shall
read as follows:
Section 717. It shall be unlawful for
any person to open, establish or operate within
Salt Lake City, any employment office, for the
purpose of procuring or obtaining, for money or
other valuable consideration, either directly or
indirectly, any work, employment, or occupation
for persons seeking the same, or to otherwise
engage in the business, or in any way to act as a
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broker or go-between between employers and persons seeking
work, without first having obtained a license so to do. Any
person performing any of the foregoing anumerated services
as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be an employment agent with-
in the meaning of this act.
Section 718. All persons required to pay license as
provided in this chapter shall pay to Salt Lake City the sum
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of $138Ar88 per antrum for such license.
Section 719. Any person applying for a license unde4
the provisions of this chapter shall make application to the
license assessor and collector for the same mad shall deposit
with the city treasurer in advance the fee for such license,
and shall also file with the license assessor and collector
with his application a duplicate copy of the license issued t•
such person by the Industrial Commission of the State of Utah
and no license shall issue until such state license shall hav=
been granted and a copy of the same filed with the license
assessor and collector.
Section 720. Each applicant for license under the
provisions of this chapter shall file with the city recorder
his bond in the penal sum of 41,000 to be approved by the
Board of Commissioners. Each such bond shall be made payable
to the city aid shall be conditioned that the person applying
for the license will comply with all laws and ordinances
regulating employment agencies and all lawful requirements
made by the State Industrial Commission and shall pay all
damages occasioned to any person by reason of any misstatemen
misrepresentation, fraud, or deceit of the licensed person,
his agent or employe, or which may result from any other
violation of law or ordinance in carrying on the business li-
censed.
Section 721. It shall be the duty of all persons wh•
may be licensed under the provisions of this chapter to keep
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such city license publicly exposed to view in a conspicuous
place in the office or place of business of such licensee.
Section 722. It shall be unlawful for any employ-
ment agent by himself, agent or employe to knowingly send any
female help to any place of bad repute, house of ill-fame or
assignation house or to any other house or place kept for
immoral purposes.
Section 723. It shall be unlawful for any employ-
ment agent by himself, agent or employe to furnish any work-
man to any employer of labor without having a bona fide order
for the same from said employer and without having secured
jfrom said employer the following information, to-wit;
The name of the prospective employer.
The place of such employment.
The kind of labor to be performed.
The wages to be paid.
The date of paydays, whether weekly,
semi-monthly or monthly.
The eating and sleeping accomodations and
cost thereof, whether such accommoda-
tions are conducted by the employer or
by others under contract or other
arrangements.
The cost of transportation to the place of
employment and whether or not the same
is advanced by the employer,definitely
stating further the terms and conditions
under which the same are to be repaid.
Where and to whom the employe is to report.
Generally and particularly any information
which will give the employe a full and
comprehensive knowledge of the condi-
tions under which he will be expected to
work.
Whether or not a strike or lockout is in
progress among the employes of said
employer.
The above information shall be set out in detail on
a ticket, the form of which may be prescribed by the State
Industrial Commission and which ticket when issued to workman
or prospective employes shall be signed by the employment
agent issuing the same and by the prospective employe receiv-
ing the same.
One copy of said ticket shall be retained by the
prospective employe and one delivered by him to the employer,
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and a full copy of the same shall be retained by the employment!
agent.
The said ticket shall also show the amount of com-
mission or fee paid by the employe.
Section 724. It shall be unlawful for any employment
agent to receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other
valuable consideration from any person seeking employment, for
any information or assistance furnished or to be furnished by
said agent to such person, enabling or tending to enable said
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person to secure such employment, prior to the time at which
said information or assistance is actually thus furnished.
Section 725. It shall be unlawful for any employment
agent to retain, directly or indirectly, any money or other
valuable consideration received for any information or assis-
tance such as is described in Section 724, if the person for
whom such information or assistance is furnished fails, through
no neglect or laohes of his own, to secure the employment re- !
garding which such information or assistance is furnished; then
said money or consideration shall be by said agent forthwith
returned to the payor of the same, upon demand therefor by the :
latter or his agent.
Section 726. It shall be unlawful for any employment
agent to receive as commission, directly or indirectly for in-
formation or assistance such as described in Section 724, any
money or other consideration which is in value in excess of
eight per cent of the amount earned, or prospectively to be
earned, by the person to whom such information is furnished,
through the medium of the employment regarding which such in-
formation or assistance is given, during the first month of
such employment; provided, that said value of said commission
shall not be in excess of eight per cent of the amount actually!
to be earned in such employment
prospectively mp yment when it is
mutually understood by the agent and person in this section men-I'
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j tinned, at the time when said information or assistance is fur-1
niched, that said employment is to be for a period of less than
one month.
Section 727. Each employment agent duly licensed undet
this ordinance shall enter upon a register to be kept for that
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purpose, and to be known as an "Employers' Register," every order
received from any corporation, company or individual desiring
the service of any persons seeking work or employment, the name)
and the address of the corporation, company or individual from
1 whom such order was received, the number of persons wanted, thel
nature of the worlx or employment, the town or city, street and
number, if any, where such work or employment is to be furnishe ,
'i and the wages to be paid.
Section 728. Each employment agent shall keep a regis�
ter, to be known as "Lahor Applicants' Register," whioh shell
show the name of each person to whom information or assistance 1
is furnished, as is described in Section 724; and the amount of!
the commission received in each such case therefor; the name of
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II plated, information or assistance such as is described in Section
11 724, fails to secure the employment regarding which such informa-
ltion or assistance is furnished, together with the reason why
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j said employment was not by said person secured, and the name ofj
I each person to whom return is made, in accordance with the prov.-
sions hereof, of any money or other consideration such as is inj
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said section named, together with the amount of said money, or
111 the value of said consideration, thus returned. The registers
Irequired by this chapter, and by this section, shall be open at
1 all reasonable hours to the inspection of any peace officer of
the city or member or agent of the State Industrial Commission. ;
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Section 729. It shall be unlawful for an employment
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t agent sending out help to contractors or other employers of
'; labor to divide the fees collected from any workman or to pay
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li Section 730. All claims or suits brought in any court
Ilagainst any employment agent may be brought in the name of the
party insured upon the bond deposited with the city recorder by
said employment agent, as provided in this chapter.
Section 731. Nothing herein shall be construed to re- !
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1 quire any religions or charitable association which may assist
Iin procuring employment for persons seeking the same, or the 1
State Industrial Commission, to obtain a license to do so under 1
the provision of this chapter. ,'
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Section 732. The keeper of each employment office shall
I cause two copies of this ordinance, printed in type of sufficient
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1 size to be legible and easily read, to be conspicuously posted
1 in each room used or occupied for the purpose of such employ-
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ment office.
Section 733. The Board of Commissioners shall revoke
any license granted under the provisions of this chapter upon I
the filing with said Board a notice from the Industrial Com-
mission of Utah that said Commission has revoked the license 1
issued by it to such licensee. The Board of Commissioners may 1
revoke any such license upon proof of violation of any provision]
of this chapter or for any other good and sufficient cause afteil
notice to said licensee and opportunity to be heard before the
Board.
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1 Section 734. Any person violating. any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
Mine in any sum not exceeding Two Hundred Ninety-nine Dollars
or by imprisonment in the city sail for a period not longer than{
1 six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The court
may, in imposing a fine, enter as part of the judgment that in
default of the payment of the fine, the defendant may be imp-
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prisoned in the city jail for a period not exceeding six
months.
SBOTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect 31 days
after its passage.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City
Utah, qn the 4th day of November , A. D., 19 15
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