CHAPTER 43

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 40-84 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the regulation of hours of work of women. 3 BE
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Approved February 18, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
a That § 40-34 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:
§ 40-34. No female shall be employed, suffered or permitted to work
in any factory, workshop, laundry, restaurant, mercantile or manufacturing
establishment in this State more than nine hours in any one day of twenty-
four hours without an unbroken rest period of ten consecutive hours, nor
more than forty-eight hours in any one week. All contracts for the em-
ployment of any female in any factory, workshop, laundry, restaurant,
mercantile or manufacturing establishment to work more than nine hours
in any one day of twenty-four hours without an unbroken rest period of
ten consecutive hours, or more than forty-eight hours in any one week, shall
be deemed to be void. _.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an employee
from working after an unbroken rest period of eight hours in connection
with shift changes, occurring not oftener than once in any work week.