Section 570 - Employment and unemployment (Adm. Code Section 2210)The Department of Labor and Industry shall have the power:
(a) To endeavor to bring together employers seeking employes and applicants for employment;(b) To supervise all public and private employment agencies, including modeling and theatrical agencies: (1) No modeling or theatrical agency may charge a fee for its services until it has secured an assignment for an applicant, which assignment has been accepted by the applicant and where the applicant and the person with whom the assignment has been secured have agreed on a fee.(2) A modeling or theatrical agency shall be entitled to charge a fee of more than ten per centum (10%) of the amount earned by an applicant for each job secured through the modeling or theatrical agency regardless of the job's duration.(3) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "modeling agency" shall mean any person, copartnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of:(i) conducting an agency, bureau, office or any other place for the purpose of procuring or offering, promising or attempting to provide engagements for persons who want to procure employment as models; or(ii) giving information as to where such engagements may be procured or provided, whether such business is conducted in a building, on the street or elsewhere.(4) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "theatrical employment agency" shall mean the business of conducting an agency, bureau, office or any other place for the purpose of procuring or offering, promising or attempting to provide engagements for persons who want employment in the following occupations: circus, fair, vaudeville, musical, theatrical and other entertainment or exhibitions or performances; or of giving information as to where such engagement may be procured or provided, whether such business is conducted in a building, on the street or elsewhere;(c) To report on the extent of unemployment, the remedy therefor, and the means for the prevention thereof;(d) To establish employment offices or labor exchanges at convenient places throughout the Commonwealth;(e) To promote the intelligent distribution of labor and, when necessary, to assist in securing transportation for employes desiring to go to places where work is available.1929, April 9, P.L. 177, art. XXII, § 2210. Amended 1996, Feb. 23, P.L. 27, No. 10, § 4, imd. effective.