§ 28-10-9. Advertising for employees during labor dispute.
If an employer during the continuance of a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble among his or her employees publicly advertises in newspapers or by posters or otherwise for employees, or by himself or herself or his or her agents solicits persons to work for him or her to fill the places of strikers, he or she shall plainly in type as prominent as the largest printed matter in the body of the advertisement or poster explicitly mention in the advertisement or oral or written solicitations that a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble exists among his or her employees. If any person, firm, association, or corporation violates any provisions of this section, he or she or it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense.
History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 896, §§ 1, 2; P.L. 1955, ch. 3492, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-10-9.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations
Chapter 28-10 - Labor Disputes
Section 28-10-1. - Mediation and conciliation by director.
Section 28-10-2. - Prerequisites and proof required for injunction.
Section 28-10-3. - “Labor dispute” defined.
Section 28-10-4. - Relief denied to complainants in default.
Section 28-10-5. - Jury trial of contempts.
Section 28-10-6. - “Person” defined.
Section 28-10-7. - Tear gas prohibited.
Section 28-10-8. - Penalty for use of gas.
Section 28-10-9. - Advertising for employees during labor dispute.
Section 28-10-10. - [Repealed.]
Section 28-10-11. - Employment of strikebreaker prohibited.
Section 28-10-12. - [Repealed.]
Section 28-10-13. - Notice in advertising.