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Appendix E.
The Corporation of the City of London.
BYE-LAWS AS TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
BYE-LAWS MADE BY THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONS
OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED,
PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 47 & 53 OF THE ACT 5 EDWARD VII.,
CAP. CCVI.
1. In these bye-laws the expression "agent" means and includes any person who
for the purpose of private gain, carries on within the City of London (a) the trade or
business of a keeper of an agency or registry for the employment of governesses,
female domestic servants or other female persons in any similar capacity, and who
in the course of such trade or business by advertisement, circular, notice or otherwise,
offers to procure employment in consideration of a preliminary or registration fee, or
requires or accepts from the employer or from the person employed any fee, commission
or other monetary payment before the person employed shall have accepted the employment
and entered into the situation procured; or (b) the trade or business of a keeper
of a concert, theatrical or music-hall employment agency or registry, and who, in the
course of such trade or business, by advertisement, circular, notice or otherwise, offers
to procure employment in consideration of a preliminary or registration fee, or accepts
a fee, commission or other monetary payment before procuring employment.
2. Every agent shall keep conspicuously affixed outside the principal entrance to the
premises upon which he carries on his trade or business, the words "Registered Employment
Agency,"with his trade name.
3. Every agent shall keep separate registers for the registration of (a) employers,
and (b) persons seeking employment, and shall record therein all transactions in his
business in such manner as will correctly indicate such transactions. He shall keep his
entries in strictly alphabetical order, or correctly indexed.
4. Every agent shall enter in the register of employers particulars of every application
as to employment he receives, and shall include in such particulars (a) the reference
number of any such application that is not entered in strictly alphabetical order, (b) the
date of registration, (c) the name and address of the applicant, (d) the nature of the
employment, (e) the salary, wages, or terms offered, (f) the amount of any fee paid or
payment made by the applicant and the number of the receipt given for such fee or payment,
(g) the name of every person seeking employment who is either named to the
employer, or to whom particulars of the employment are given: and, when an engagement
has been made, (h) the name of the person engaged and, (i) the reference number
of that person in the register of persons seeking employment, unless the entries in that
register are in strictly alphabetical order. He shall also issue to each employer at the
time of registration a printed postcard or form with the necessary spaces for the
following particulars, namely (1) the name and address of the person engaged; and
(2) the date of engagement; and shall make it a condition of registration that such
employer shall return to him such postcard or form, properly filled up, immediately an
engagement takes place.
5. Every agent shall in respect of every application for the employment of females
abroad require a reference to a Consul or to some responsible person or society as to the
nature of the proposed employment, and shall, unless such reference is satisfactory, refuse
to act as agent for the employment proposed.