Northrup, 051132 PAAGO, AGO 48

• Case Date: May 11, 1932
• Court: Pennsylvania

Dr. A. M. Northrup AGO 48 Opinion No. 48 Pennsylvania Attorney General Opinions Opinion of the Attorney General May 11, 1932          Females—Employment after 9 P.M. on days when overtime work is allowed. Age limit.          1. Under section five of the Act of July 25, 1913, P. L. 1024, no female under twenty-one years of age, except as therein provided, may be permitted to work in any establishment before 6 o'clock A. M. or after 9 o'clock P. HI.. even on the days when overtime work is permitted under section three of the statute, as amended by the Act of June 1, 1915, P. L. 709.          2. Employment of Females (No. 3), 23 Dist. R. 175, overruled.          Dr. A. M. Northrup,          Secretary of Labor and Industry,          Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.          Sir: You have asked us to advise you whether it is permissible under the Act of July 25, 1913, P. L. 1024, for an employer to permit a female under twenty-one years of age to work after nine o'clock in the evening during the three days in a week in which a holiday is observed, provided the maximum number of hours of labor allowed by the act is not exceeded.          Section 3 of the Act of July 25, 1913, P. L. 1024, as amended by the Act of June 1, 1915, P. L. 709, provides, in part, as follows:

"Section 3. (a) No female shall be employed or permitted to work in, or in connection with, any establishment for more than six days in any one week or more than fifty-four hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day.

"Provided that during weeks in which a legal holiday occurs and is observed by establishment, any female may be employed by such establishment during three days of such a week for a longer period of time than is allowed by this act; but no female shall be permitted to work more than two hours overtime during any one of such three days, nor more than the maximum hours per week specified in this act."

         Section 5 of the Act of 1913 reads as follows:

'' Section 5. No female under twenty-one years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in, or in connection with, any establishment before the hours of six o'clock in the morning or after the hour of nine o'clock in the evening of any day. Provided That this section shall not apply to females over the age of eighteen years employed as telephone operators."

         Under date of December 18, 1913-an opinion of this department was rendered to your predecessor advising him that females under twenty-one...