Hosiery Manufacture (Wages) Act 1874
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1874 c. 48 |
Hosiery Manufacture (Wages) Act, 1874.
(37 & 38 Vict.) CHAPTER 48.
An Act to provide for the payment of Wages without Stoppages in the Hosiery Manufacture.
[30th July 1874]
W HEREAS a custom has prevailed among the employers of artificers in the hosiery manufacture of letting out frames and, machinery to the artificers employed by them, and it is desirable to prohibit such letting of frames and machinery, and the stoppage of wages for frame rents and charges in the hosiery manufacture:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Wages to be paid without any stoppages whatever.
1. In all contracts for wages the full and entire amount of all wages the earnings of labour in the hosiery manufacture shall be actually and positively made payable in net, in the current coin of the realm, and not otherwise, without any deduction or stoppage of any description whatever, save and except for bad and disputed workmanship.
2 Contracts to stop wages and for frame rents illegal.
2. All contracts to stop wages, and all contracts for frame rents and charges, between employer and artificers, shall be and are hereby declared to be illegal, null, and void.
3 Penalty for bargaining to deduct and for deducting from wages.
3. If any employer shall bargain to deduct, or shall deduct, directly or indirectly, from the wages of any artificer in his employ any part of such wages for frame rent and standing or other charges, or shall refuse or neglect to pay the same or any part thereof in the current coin of the realm, he shall forfeit a sum of five pounds for every offence, to be recovered by the said artificer or any other person suing for the same in the county court in the district where the offence is committed, with full costs of suit.
4 Penalty for using frame otherwise than for the purpose for which same lent.
4. If any frame or machine which shall have been entrusted to any artificer or other person by his employer for the purpose of being used in the hosiery...
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