CHAPTER 321

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-84, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to regulation of hours of work of women and exceptions

thereto.
[S 241]
Approved March 15, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 40-34, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 40-34. No female shall be employed, suffered or permitted to work
in any factory, workshop, laundry, restaurant, mercantile or manufactur-
ing 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 employment of any female in any factory, workshop, laundry, res-
taurant, 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,
nor shall this section prohibit an employee in a manufacturing establish-
ment from working seven consecutive days, with the employee limited to
eight hours of work on each of such seven consecutive days with such
seven consecutive day period occurring not oftener than once in fourteen
consecutive days, in connection with a rotating shift schedule used in a
manufacturing establishment which operates twenty-four hours each day
continuously.