Oklahoma § 40-167 - False Statements as to conditions of employment

§ 40-167. False Statements as to conditions of employment

It shall be unlawful for any employer of labor doing business in

the state, to induce, influence, persuade or engage workmen to

change from one place to another in the state, or to bring workmen

of any class or calling into this state to work in any of the

departments of labor, through or by means of false or deceptive

representations, false advertising or false pretenses concerning the

kind and character of the work to be done, or amount and character

of the compensation to be paid for such work or the sanitary or

other conditions of employment or as to the existence or

nonexistence of a strike or other trouble pending between employer

and employees, at the time of or prior to such engagement. Failure

to state in an advertisement, proposal or contract for the

employment of workmen that there is a strike, lockout or other labor

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor

trouble at the place of the proposed employment, when in fact such

strike, lockout or other labor troubles then actually exist at such

place, shall be deemed a false advertisement and misrepresentation

for the purposes of this section.

R.L.1910, § 3765.