Company stores

(a) It is not lawful for any employer, or agent, clerk or superintendent of the employer, who owns or controls a store for the sale of general merchandise in connection with the employer's manufacturing or other business, to attempt to control the employer's employees or laborers in the purchase of goods and supplies at the store, by withholding the payment of wages longer than the usual time of payment, whereby the employee would be compelled to purchase supplies at the employer's store. (b) No employee shall be required, as a condition of employment, to trade at a store specified by the employer. (c) Any person violating this section commits a Class C misdemeanor. Acts 1887, ch. 155, §§ 1-2; Shan., §§ 6882-6883; mod. Code 1932, §§ 11361-11362; Acts 1935, ch. 58, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 1136.1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 50-316, 50-317; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.

(a) It is not lawful for any employer, or agent, clerk or superintendent of the employer, who owns or controls a store for the sale of general merchandise in connection with the employer's manufacturing or other business, to attempt to control the employer's employees or laborers in the purchase of goods and supplies at the store, by withholding the payment of wages longer than the usual time of payment, whereby the employee would be compelled to purchase supplies at the employer's store.

(b) No employee shall be required, as a condition of employment, to trade at a store specified by the employer.

(c) Any person violating this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.

Acts 1887, ch. 155, §§ 1-2; Shan., §§ 6882-6883; mod. Code 1932, §§ 11361-11362; Acts 1935, ch. 58, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 1136.1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 50-316, 50-317; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.