43 P.S. § 450 Hours of Labor

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 P.S. § 450

When the air pressure in any tunnel, caisson, compartment, or place in which persons are employed exceeds normal, but does not exceed fifty pounds, the maximum number of hours which, in any twenty-four hours, a person may be employed or permitted to work or remain therein, shall be as hereinafter stated. In every case the maximum number of hours shall be divided into two working-periods of equal length, and the minimum time interval which shall elapse between such working-periods shall be as hereafter stated.

When the air pressure exceeds normal, but does not exceed twenty-one pounds, number of hours in twenty-four, eight; interval between working-periods, thirty minutes.

When the air pressure exceeds twenty-one but does not exceed thirty pounds, number of hours in twenty-four, six; interval between working-periods, one hour.

When the air pressure exceeds thirty but does not exceed thirty-five pounds, number of hours in twenty-four, four; interval between working-periods, two hours.