(a) Upon application by the homeworker and the employer on forms
provided by the Wage and Hour Division, certificates may be issued to
the applicant employer authorizing the employment of a particular worker
in industrial homework in a particular industry, provided that the
application is in proper form and sets forth facts showing that the
worker:
(1)(i) Is unable to adjust to factory work because of age or
physical or mental disability; or
(ii) Is unable to leave home because the worker's presence is
required to care for an invalid in the home; and
(2)(i) Was engaged in industrial homework in the particular industry
for which the certificate is applied, as such industry is defined in
Sec. 530.1, prior to: (a) April 4, 1942, in the button and buckle
manufacturing industry; (b) November 2, 1942, in the embroideries
industry; (c) April 1, 1941, in the gloves and mittens industry; (d)
October 7, 1942, in the handkerchief manufacturing industry; (e) July 1,
1941, in the jewelry manufacturing industry; or (f) March 5, 1942, in
the women's apparel industry, except that if this requirement shall
result in unusual hardship to the individual homeworker it shall not be
applied; or
(ii) Is engaged in industrial homework under the supervision of a
State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.
(b) No homeworker shall perform industrial homework for more than
one employer in the same industry, but homework employment in one
industry shall not be a bar to the issuance of certificates for other
industries.
(Information collection requirements contained in paragraph (a) were
approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number
1215-0005)
[24 FR 729, Feb. 3, 1959, as amended at 43 FR 28470, June 30, 1978; 46
FR 50349, Oct. 9, 1981; 49 FR 44270, Nov. 5, 1984; 53 FR 45722, Nov. 10,
1988]
