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Show 244 State Labor Laws for Women In addition to prohibiting employment, Puerto Rico requires the employer to pay the working mother one-half of her regular wage or salary during an 8-week period and provides for job security during the required absence. Rhode Island's Temporary Disability Insurance Act women provides that workers covered by the act who are unemployed because of sickness resulting from pregnancy are entitled to cash benefits for maternity leave for a 14-week period beginning the sixth week prior to the week of expected childbirth, or the week childbirth occurs if it is more than 6 weeks prior to the expected birth. In New Jersey the Temporary Disability Benefits Act provides . that women workers to whom the act applies are entitled to cash pay ments for disability existing during the 4 weeks before and 4 weeks following childbirth. 112. Occup1ational Limitations Twenty-six States have laws or regulations that prohibit the em ployment of adult women in specified occupations or industries or under certain working conditions which are considered hazardous or injurious to health and safety. In the majority (17) the prohibition applies to women's employment in or about mines. Clerical 'Or similar work is excepted from the prohibition in approximately half of these States. Ten States prohibit women from mixing, selling, or dispens ing alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, and 1 State Georgia-prohibits their employment in retail liquor stores. (In addition, a Florida statute authorizes the city of Tampa to prohibit females from soliciting customers to buy alcoholic beverages.) The following States have occupational limitations applicable to-...Mines Establishments servilng alcoholic beverages Alabama Ohio Arizona Oklahoma California Arkansas Colorado Pennsylvania Connecticut Utah Illinois Illinois Virginia Indiana Maryland Wisconsin Ohio Missouri Wyoming Pennsylvania Indiana New York Washington Alaska 1 Kentucky Rhode Island Wyoming 1 Illinois State law empowers city and county governments to prohiblt by general ordd or resolutten. nance |
