Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 12, 1898.
entitled an act to require employers of females in stores, shops, offices or
manufactories, as clerk, operatives or helpers in any business, trade or
occupation, to provide seats for such female employees, and providing ¢
penalty for failure or refusal to provide such seats.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled
an act to require employers of females in stores, shops, offices, or manu-
factories, as clerks, operatives or helpers in any business, trade or occu-
pation, to provide seats for such female employecs, and providing
penalty for failure or refusal to provide such seats, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

That chairs, stools or other suitable seats shall be maintained in
mercantile establishments for the use of female employees therein to
the number of at least one seat for every three females employed, and
the use thereof by such employees shall be allowed at such times and to
such extent as may be necessary for the preservation of their health. If
the duties of the female employees, for the use of whom the seats are fur-
nished, are to be principally performed in front of a counter, table, desk
or fixture, such seats shall be placed in front thereof; if such duties are
to be principally performed behind such counter, table, desk or fixture,
such seats shall be placed behind the same.

§2. If any employer of female help in the State of Virginia shall
neglect or refuse to provide seats, as provided in this act, or shall make
any rules, orders or regulations in his shop, store or other place of busi-
ness, requiring females to remain standing when not necessarily em-
ployed in service or labor therein, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdic-
tion shall be liable to a fine therefor in a sum not to exceed twenty-five
dollars, with costs, in the diseretion of the court.