Arkansas Department of Labor v. American Employment Agency

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

In these consolidated actions appellees challenged the issuance of directives by Dale Cline, as Commissioner of Labor, which admittedly amounted to the adoption of rules and regulations governing operations of private employment agencies. The attack was centered upon a prohibition against the use of fictitious names by agents and employees of the agencies and the requirement that all agencies use a standard form of contract, or receipt, drawn so as to require the negotiation and execution of a new and separate contract on each referral of a job applicant to an out of…