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THE FIFTH AVENUE ASSOCIATION, INC. 
358 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y.

THE LABOR LAW AS AMENDED APRIL 28, 1930
(Underlined Portions are New)

The portion of Section 181, of Chapter 50, of the Labor Law, as amended by the Mastick bill, now reads as follows:

Section 181. Females over sixteen. Except from the eighteenth day of December to the following twenty-fourth of December, inclusive, no female over sixteen years of age shall be employed in or in connection with any mercantile establishment:
  a. More than six days or forty-eight hours in any week, except as provided in subdivisions b and c of this section;
  b. More than eight hours in any day, except that she may be employed nine hours on one day of each week, in order to make one or more shorter work days in the week, in which event she may be employed on five days of the week at not to exceed nine hours on each of such days and not more than four and one-half  hours on such shorter work day and not in excess altogether for forty-nine and one-half hours in each week;
  c. Notwithstanding the provision of paragraphs a and b and in addition to the hours of work therein authorized, a female may be employed overtime for not to exceed a total of seventy-eight hours in any calendar year, provided that the total employment for such female in any week in any such calendar year shall not exceed five days or five days and a shorter work day or no more than four and one-half hours including such overtime employment. In the distribution of such overtime herein authorized, no female shall be required, permitted or suffered to work more than ten hours on any day except on one day of the week, but in no case shall she be employed including overtime for more than five days plus four and one-half hours on any sixth day, nor more than fifty-four ours in any week. Before the commencement of such overtime employment, the employer shall post a notice on a form furnished by the commission stating the amount of overtime which shall be required in each room where the employees are employed or report for duty and in cases where less than all employees are to be employed on overtime tho names of the employees to work during such overtimes shall be posted also. A copy of such notice shall be forthwith mailed to the commissioner. 

Under Subdivision 11 of Section 2 of Chapter 50 of the Labor Law, a mercantile establishment is define as follows:
Definition of Mercantile Establishment
  "Mercantile establishment" means a place where one or more persons are employed in which goods, wares or merchandise are offered for sale and includes a building, shed or structure, or any part thereof, occupied in connection with such establishment.