Unlawful to demand or receive fee or commission as condition to giving or continuing employment to workman; penalty.
1. It shall be unlawful for any manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift boss or other employee of any person or corporation, charged or entrusted with the employment of any workmen or laborers, or with the continuance of workmen or laborers in employment, to demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any workman or laborer, employed through his agency or worked or continued in employment under his direction or control, any fee, commission or gratuity of any kind or nature as the price or condition of the employment of any such workman or laborer, or as the price or condition of his continuance in such employment.
2. Any such manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift boss or other employee of any person or corporation, charged or entrusted with the employment of laborers or workmen for his principal, or under whose direction or control such workmen and laborers are engaged in work and labor for such principal, who shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, any fee, commission or gratuity of any kind or nature from any workman or laborer employed by him or through his agency or worked under his direction and control, either as the price and condition of the employment of such workman or laborer or as the price and condition of the continuance of such workman or laborer in such employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Last modified: February 25, 2006