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Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

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Wage and Hour Division - To promote and achieve compliance with labor standards to protect and enhance the welfare of the nation's workforce.

Industrial Homeworker

Overview

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations require that employers obtain certificates from the Wage and Hour Division authorizing the employment of homeworkers in certain restricted industries before the employment may commence. These restricted industries are those that manufacture women’s apparel, knitted outerwear, gloves and mittens, buttons and buckles, handkerchiefs, embroideries, and jewelry. There are two different types of certificates: an individual industrial homeworker certificate, which authorizes a specific individual to perform homework in a restricted industry because of certain circumstances impacting that employee's ability to work outside the home, and an employer homeworker certificate that authorizes an employer to employ homeworkers in a particular restricted industry, except women's apparel. No employer homeworker certificates may be issued for the women's apparel industry.

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