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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 200 printed, published or circulated misleading, false or fraudulent information about employment opportunities. (h) Other than the prescribed placement fee, no employment agency shall require either the employee or employer to contribute to the cost of its employment-related services, advertising, or incidental expenses. This subsection shall not apply to any employment agency acting as a search consultant that is retained and compensated solely by the employer on a retainer or consulting basis. (i) No employment agency shall place, or cause to be placed, promotional advertising in any media without licensee's identification as to agency and address. (j) No employment agency shall send any person to a prospective employer who is conducting a "lockout" against all or part of his employees, or whose employees or a part of them are out on strike, without first apprising said person of the existence of such lockout or strike. (k) Any licensed agency, or agent thereof, who shall be guilty of dividing fees with any superintendent, manager, foreman or other employees of any person, company, corporation or association for whom employees are furnished, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in Section 57 of this title. (l) No licensed agency shall furnish employment to or refer any child to any vocation or establishment in violation of the laws regulating the labor of children or their compulsory attendance at school. (m) No employment agency shall discriminate in the employment of its personnel because of the race, national origin, sex or religious belief of the applicant seeking employment with the agency. Added by Laws 1967, c. 384, § 4, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 1974, c. 62, § 2; Laws 1982, c. 313, § 2, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 2017, c. 51, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
§40-57. Enforcement. Any applicant or employee may seek criminal enforcement of this act through request made to any district attorney or the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or the fee charged for the service, whichever is greater, for each offense, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not exceeding six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Added by Laws 1967, c. 384, § 6, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967.