The state board of health is authorized to establish an occupational health and safety program and is empowered: To employ such qualified personnel as staff to carry out the duties and responsibilities set forth herein; To develop and make available upon request to all employers of the state, including public employers, information, consultation and assistance […]
No boy or girl under the age of fourteen (14) years shall be employed or permitted to work in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment within this state.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to employ, detain, or permit to work in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this state any child under the age of fourteen (14) years, or any child over the age of fourteen (14) years and under the age of sixteen (16) […]
No boy or girl over fourteen (14) years of age and under sixteen (16) years shall be permitted to work in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment more than eight (8) hours in one (1) day, or more than forty-four (44) hours in any one (1) week, or be employed in or detained […]
It shall be the special duty of the sheriff of the county in which the mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment employing child labor is located to visit, at least once each month, such mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment to see to the enforcement of this chapter.
It shall be the duty of the county health officer to visit, without notice of his intention to do so, all mills, canneries, workshops, factories, or manufacturing establishments employing child labor within his county at least twice each year, or oftener if requested by the sheriff, and to promptly report to the sheriff any unsanitary […]
Any officer, manager, or superintendent of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment in which child labor is employed who shall fail or refuse to give true and correct information demanded of him by any officer hereinbefore directed to inspect such mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, or who shall fail or refuse […]
Any person, firm, or corporation, or the superintendent or any officer of the mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment employing any child, or permitting any child to be employed by or to work in, or to be detained in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this state contrary to law shall […]
The provisions of Sections 71-1-17 through 71-1-29 shall not apply to fruit or vegetable canneries.
Every corporation, company, association, partnership and individual person engaged in manufacturing of any kind in this state employing as many as fifty (50) or more employees and employing public labor, and every public service corporation doing business in this state shall be required to make full payment to employees for services performed as often as […]
Every person, company, association, partnership, manufacturing company, or railroad company now existing or hereafter organized in this state engaged in employing labor for manufacturing purposes, or any railroad within this state shall be prohibited from discounting any trade check, coupons, or other written instrument issued for the payment of such labor. It shall be unlawful […]
All persons, firms, or corporations engaged in manufacturing and issuing trade checks, coupons, or other instruments of writing in payment for labor shall, on or after the regular pay day, cash said check or checks so issued at their face value less any amount that may be due by the party to whom issued. Any […]
A trust of real or personal property, or real and personal property combined, created either heretofore or hereafter by an employer as part of a pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, or profit-sharing plan for the exclusive benefit of some or all of his or its employees, to which contributions are made by such […]
The income or principal payable to a beneficiary or beneficiaries under any trust created by an employer as part of a pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, profit-sharing plan, or under any trust created under a retirement plan for which provision has been made under the laws of the United States of America exempting […]
No assignment or pledge of wages, in any form, made or executed directly or collaterally in the payment of, or as security for, the purchase of or contract to purchase any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be valid against or binding upon any employer, or the wages of any employee in the hands of, or […]
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of Mississippi that the right of a person or persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization: Any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby […]
No person who is an alien, or who is or has been a member of the Communist Party, or who has been convicted of or served any part of a prison term resulting from his conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to […]
Any corporation or person or manager of any company or partnership who violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which a penalty is not otherwise provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) […]
No employer shall prohibit an employee from expressing breast milk during any meal period or other break period provided by the employer.
