Administration Acts to End Ban on Cottage Industry
The Reagan Administration today launched its final effort before leaving office to remove 45-year-old bans on cottage-industry work at home in five industries.
The Labor Department said it will publish proposed regulations next week that would allow employers to contract work from people in their homes in producing gloves and mittens, embroideries, buttons and buckles, handkerchiefs and some jewelry.
Unlike the Administration’s two previous attempts to deregulate industrial homework, officials said this time they will not try to remove the ban on women’s apparel.
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