Legal group requests homework ban reversal. (home knitted outerwear industries)

Daily News Record, March, 1984

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- A legal group representing knitters has asked the U.S. Department of Labor to issue an emergency rule legalizing industrial homework, at least until the Labor Department issues new regulations to replace the ones truck down by the federal appeals court here last November.

The New England Legal Foundation, a Boston-based group representing four Vermont women seeking to continue knitting at home, asked the Labor Department to issue an emergency rule legalizing homework, effective immediately, according to Jean DeLuca, a staff attorney for the group.

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals last November struck down new Labor Department regulations which lifted the decades-old ban on industrial homework in the knitted outerwear...

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