50-2-101. Prospective employee to be informed as to wages - Exceptions.

(a)  As used in this section, "workshops and factories" includes the following: manufacturing, mills, mechanical, electrical, mercantile, art, and laundering establishments, printing, telegraph, and telephone offices, department stores, or any kind of an establishment wherein labor is employed or machinery is used; provided, that domestic service and agricultural pursuits are excluded. 

(b)  It is unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person to employ, permit or suffer to work for hire, in, about, or in connection with any workshop or factory, as defined in subsection (a), any person whatsoever without first informing such employee of the amount of wages to be paid for such labor. Such amount agreed upon between employer and employee, or employee representative, shall constitute a basis for litigation in civil cases. This does not apply to farm labor. Nothing in this section shall apply to railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce and which are subject to the federal Railway Labor Act. 

(c)  The failure on the part of any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person in charge of any industry named in subsection (a) to so inform any employee of wages to be paid as provided herein is a Class C misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to preclude the employment of any person or persons on a "piece-work" basis or on commission basis. 

[Acts 1915, ch. 144, § 1; Shan., § 4433a95; Code 1932, § 5324; Acts 1935, ch. 73, §§ 1, 2; C. Supp. 1950, §§ 5330.1, 5330.2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 50-301, 50-302; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]