Sec. 21a-157. (Formerly Sec. 19-289). Communicable diseases bar to employment. Examination.
Sec. 21a-157. (Formerly Sec. 19-289). Communicable diseases bar to employment. Examination. No employer shall knowingly permit to work in his bakery any
person who is affected with pulmonary tuberculosis or a scrofulous or venereal disease
or with a communicable skin affection or with diphtheria, dysentery, paratyphoid fever,
poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, smallpox, streptococcus sore throat, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, gonorrhea or syphilis, except in those cases in which the director of health has
given written authorization stating that the public health is not endangered, and each
employer shall maintain himself and his employees in a clean and sanitary condition,
with clean, washable outer clothing, while engaged in the manufacture, handling or sale
of food products. The commissioner or his authorized agents may order any person
employed in a bakery to be examined by a licensed physician if he has reason to believe
that such employee has any disease enumerated above. No person shall be allowed to
smoke in a bakery while in the performance of his duty.
(1949 Rev., S. 4007; 1949, S. 2111d.)
History: Sec. 19-289 transferred to Sec. 21a-157 in 1983.