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Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149Legal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > Labor and Industries > Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149 Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 1 Definitions . Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 2 Enforcement of chapter . Section 2. The attorney general shall, except as otherwise specifically provided, enforce the provisions of this chapter, and shall have all ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 3 Inspections and investigations . Section 3. The inspection and investigation carried on by the attorney general shall be a regular and systematic inspection and investigation ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 4 Reports of diseases . Section 4. The department shall promptly report to the department of public health all cases of disease in industrial establishments affecting ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 5 Investigations of industrial conditions; complaints; prosecutions . Section 5. The attorney general may investigate conditions existing in any line of industry, and such investigations may ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6 Safety devices and means to prevent accidents and diseases generally; fees for structural painting . Section 6. The department shall or the attorney general may ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6A Monitoring, inspection and investigation of work involving asbestos . Section 6A. The department shall monitor, inspect and investigate all work, including construction, demolition, alteration or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6B License for business activities involving asbestos; fee . Section 6B. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall enter into, engage in, or work at ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6C Health and safety of general public and asbestos workers; rules and regulations . Section 6C. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations relative to the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6D Complaints by employees relating to asbestos; retaliation by employer . Section 6D. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6E Violations of workplace standards relating to asbestos; cease and desist orders . Section 6E. The commissioner, upon determination that there is a violation of any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6F Penalties . Section 6F. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity which violates any provision of sections six B to six E, inclusive, shall be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 6G Release or waiver of damages caused by asbestos . Section 6G. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall require any other person, firm, corporation ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 7 Committees for investigations and recommendation of regulations . Section 7. The commissioner, assistant commissioner and associate commissioners of the department may appoint committees, on which ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 8 Notices and hearings before adoption of regulations and orders; effective dates . Section 8. Before adopting any rule or regulation under section six, a public ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 9 Appeals; suspensions pending hearings; enforcement of orders; other remedies . Section 9. Any person affected by an order, rule or regulation of the department may ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 10 Entry of places of employment for investigations . Section 10. In order to make investigations under section six, members or employees of the department or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 11 Reports by physicians generally . Section 11. The department may require every physician treating a patient whom he believes to be suffering from any ailment ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 11A Occupational lead registry; blood lead testing reports; regulations; enforcement . Section 11A. To assist in the identification and treatment of workers exposed to lead and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 12 Regulations prevailing over regulations of workmen’s compensation insurer . Section 12. If any rule or regulation made under authority of section sixty-four of chapter one ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 13 Violations of regulations or orders . Section 13. No person shall violate any reasonable rule, regulation, order or requirement made by the department under section ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 14 Annual reports of commissioner . Section 14. The commissioner shall make an annual report, including the reports required by sections one hundred and sixty and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 15 Inspection districts; assignment of inspectors . Section 15. With the approval of the associate commissioners and the assistant commissioner, the commissioner may divide the commonwealth ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 16 Receipt of gift by inspector . Section 16. An inspector who directly or indirectly receives a reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 17 Entry of places of employment for examinations and investigations; access to records . Section 17. For the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18 Duties of industrial health inspectors relative to minors . Section 18. Every industrial health inspector shall inform himself concerning the health of all minors employed ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18A Sanitary and safety conditions; tools . Section 18A. Employers shall provide a change room with adequate storage facilities for clothes, shower baths and lavatories having ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18B Confined spaces; ventilation . Section 18B. Before allowing employees to enter confined spaces where flammable, poisonous, asphyxiant, suffocant or anesthetic vapors, gases or dusts are ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18C Power transmission equipment . Section 18C. Power transmission equipment (such as gears, belts, pulleys, sprockets, etc.) shall be enclosed or guarded in a manner that ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18D Ropes, hooks and cranes; use and operation . Section 18D. All chains, wire ropes and fiber ropes shall be of sufficient strength to safely lift ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18E Safety precautions in dangerous undertakings . Section 18E. Persons working in locations where there is a hazard to the head or eyes shall be safeguarded ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18F Explosives . Section 18F. Explosives and other dangerous articles and substances shall be loaded, unloaded, stored, transported or otherwise handled in accordance with United States ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18G Industrial truck and internal combustion equipment; operation; construction of docks . Section 18G. Every industrial truck (lift truck or jitney) and tractor, except those guided ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18H Stop signals . Section 18H. The employer shall provide blue stop signs for use by day and blue lights if night work is necessary, and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 18I Penalty . Section 18I. Any person violating any provision of the preceding sections eighteen A, eighteen B, eighteen C, eighteen D, eighteen E, eighteen F, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 19 Prevention of employment . Section 19. No person shall, by intimidation or force, prevent or seek to prevent a person from entering into or continuing ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 19A Copy of medical report for employee . Section 19A. Any employer requiring a physical examination of an employee shall, upon request, cause said person to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 19B Lie detector tests; use as condition of employment; penalty; civil action . Section 19B. (1) As used in this section the term “lie detector test” ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 19C Employment of aliens restricted; regulations; penalty . Section 19C. It shall be unlawful for any employer knowingly to employ any alien in the commonwealth, who ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20 Coercion of agreement not to join a labor organization . Section 20. No person shall, himself or by his agent, coerce or compel a person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20A Relief afforded by contract relative to membership in a labor or employer organization . Section 20A. No contract, whether written or oral, between any employee ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20B Liability for unlawful acts of officers, members or agents of an organization . Section 20B. No officer or member of any association or organization, and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20C Definitions . Section 20C. For the purposes of this and the preceding section, section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, sections one and six ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20D Solicitation, acceptance or payment of money to encourage or discourage formation or functioning of a labor organization . Section 20D. No employer and no person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 20E Business combination transactions; labor contracts; definitions; remedies . Section 20E. No business combination transaction shall result in the termination or impairment of the provisions of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 21 False notices or advertisement for help or employment . Section 21. Whoever knowingly causes to be printed or published a false or fraudulent notice or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 22 Advertising for or soliciting employees during labor troubles; notice to employment agency; employment of children . Section 22. If an employer, during the continuance of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 22A Professional strikebreakers; obstruction of picketing . Section 22A. No person shall knowingly employ any professional strikebreaker in the place of an employee involved in a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 23 Filling place of employees; size of letters mentioning labor troubles; penalty . Section 23. No person, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 23A Armed guards during labor troubles; qualifications; violation of statute . Section 23A. No person, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 23B Use of civil defense personnel in labor disputes . Section 23B. The auxiliary police or other personnel originally organized by civil defense agencies under state ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24 Communications and conduct during labor disputes . Section 24. No person shall be punished criminally, or held liable or answerable in any action at law ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24A Dismissal or refusal to employ; penalty . Section 24A. Whoever dismisses from private sector employment any person over the age of forty, or refuses to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24B Contract provisions . Section 24B. Any provision in any contract, agreement or understanding entered into on or after September first, nineteen hundred and eighty-four, which ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24C Investigation of complaints; ascertainment of age of employees; examination and transcript of records . Section 24C. The department shall investigate all complaints of discrimination, and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24D Records of ages of employees; copy furnished to commissioner; violation of statute . Section 24D. Every person shall keep true and accurate records of the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24E Hindering investigation; refusal of information . Section 24E. Whoever hinders or delays an inspector of the department, or a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24F Discharge of employee for furnishing evidence or testifying . Section 24F. Whoever, personally or by his agent, shall discharge an employee for the reason that ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24G Publication of name of employer; summons to show cause; liability for damages . Section 24G. If the commissioner or any of his authorized representatives has ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24H Appeal from decision of commissioner . Section 24H. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner under any provision of sections twenty-four A to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24I Farm labor . Section 24I. Sections twenty-four A to twenty-four H, inclusive, shall not apply to persons employed in service as farm laborers. ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24J Partial invalidity . Section 24J. If any part or subdivision of any of sections twenty-four A to twenty-four I, inclusive, or the application thereof, shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 24K Repealed, 1983, 533, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 25 Lodging, board and trade of public employees; statute part of employment contract . Section 25. Every employee in public work shall lodge, board and trade ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 26 Public works; preference to veterans and citizens; wages . Section 26. In the employment of mechanics and apprentices, teamsters, chauffeurs and laborers in the construction ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27 List of jobs; classification; schedule of wages; penalty; civil action . Section 27. The commissioner shall prepare, for the use of such public officials or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27A Appeals from classifications and wage determinations . Section 27A. Within five days from the date of the first advertisement or call for bids, two or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27B Records of employees; payroll records; statements of compliance . Section 27B. Every contractor, subcontractor or public body engaged in said public works to which sections ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27C Penalties for violations of certain sections by employers, contractors, subcontractors or their employees . Section 27C. (a)(1) Any employer, contractor or subcontractor, or any officer, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27D “Construction” and “constructed” defined . Section 27D. Wherever used in sections twenty-six to twenty-seven C, inclusive, the words “construction” and “constructed” as applied to public ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27E Employment of residents in highway districts . Section 27E. At least seventy-five per cent of the persons employed by the department of highways to work ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27F Wages of operators of rented equipment; agreements; penalty; civil action . Section 27F. No agreement of lease, rental or other arrangement, and no order or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27G Wages of employees of moving contractors; contracts; injunctive relief; damages . Section 27G. No contract for the moving of office furniture and fixtures shall be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 27H Wages of employees of maintenance or cleaning contractors; contracts; civil action . Section 27H. No agreement or contract providing for the cleaning and maintenance of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 28 Right of action against city or town for labor; filing statement; fee; limitations . Section 28. A person to whom a debt is due for ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 29 Bonds for payment for labor, materials, rentals or transportation charges; enforcement of claim; notice of claim; speedy trial, appeal, consolidation; dismissal; legal fees; posting statute . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 29A Enforcement of surety bonds by persons furnishing labor or materials on private building projects . Section 29A. Whenever any surety bond shall be given in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 29B Waiver or cancellation of payment bond . Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 29C Indemnification as part of contract . Section 29C. Any provision for or in connection with a contract for construction, reconstruction, installation, alteration, remodeling, repair, demolition ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 30 Eight hour day and six day week; emergencies; work on highways . Section 30. The service of all laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen and inspectors now ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 30A Tours of duty and hours of work of state employees; regulations . Section 30A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or other general or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 30B Overtime of state employees; regulations . Section 30B. All service in excess of eight hours in any one tour of duty or forty hours in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 30C Work week of uniformed members of state police; overtime service; compensation; rules and regulations . Section 30C. The service of all members of the uniformed ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 31 Eight hour day for towns and public works for towns; emergencies; acceptance of statute relating to employees of commonwealth . Section 31. The service of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 32 Scope of words “laborers, workmen and mechanics” and “requiring” . Section 32. In construing sections thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four the words “laborers, workmen and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 33 Hours of labor to make up Saturday half holiday . Section 33. It shall not be a violation of section thirty or thirty-one if, in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 33A Five day and forty hour week for cities and towns; emergencies; overtime; reduction of compensation . Section 33A. Except as otherwise provided in this section ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 33B Five day week and eight hour day for cities and towns; overtime; reduction of compensation . Section 33B. Except as otherwise provided in this section ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 33C City and town employees; overtime; effective date . Section 33C. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, any permanent employee of a city ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 33D Blood donations; leave of absence without loss of pay . Section 33D. Any employee of the commonwealth, of any county, and of any city or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 34 Public contracts; stipulation as to hours and days of work; void contracts . Section 34. Every contract, except for the purchase of material or supplies, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 34A Contracts for public works; workers’ compensation insurance; breach of contract; enforcement and violation of statute . Section 34A. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 34B Contracts for public works; wages for reserve police officer . Section 34B. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or addition ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 34C Application of Secs. 30, 34 and 35 . Section 34C. The provisions of sections thirty, thirty-four and thirty-five and of any other pertinent sections shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 35 Violation of Sec. 30, 31 or 34 . Section 35. Any agent or official of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 36 Nonapplicability of eight hour day and six day week statutes . Section 36. Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply to the preparation, printing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 37 Nine hour day for towns . Section 37. In any town not subject to section thirty or thirty-one nine hours shall constitute a day’s work ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 38 Annual vacation for employees of commonwealth . Section 38. All laborers, workmen and mechanics permanently in the employ of the commonwealth who are within the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 39 Hours of labor in institutions; employees with less hours under other statutes; emergencies . Section 39. The maximum hours of labor of laborers, workmen and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 40 Repealed, 1954, 632, Sec. 2 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 41 Saturday half holiday for commonwealth . Section 41. Except as provided in section sixty-five of chapter ninety-two, all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 42 Work by employees of commonwealth on day work basis . Section 42. So far as possible, all work by laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 43 Nondiscrimination . Section 43. The application of a citizen of the commonwealth for employment in any department of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44 Service by veterans on Memorial Day . Section 44. No veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, in the service of the commonwealth ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44A1/2 Fair competition for bidders on construction . Section 44A1/2. (a) A public agency, before entering into a contract for design services pursuant to section 38D ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44A Definitions; competitive bids; award; bonds; extreme emergency situations; records contracts not subjected to competitive bid process . Section 44A. (1) The words defined in this ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44B Plans and specifications; bid deposits . Section 44B. (1) The awarding authority shall prepare for bidding purposes a sufficient number of sets of plans and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44C Suspension or debarment of contractors . Section 44C. The commissioner may suspend or debar contractors in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine F of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44D1/2 General contractor bids; prequalification procedures . Section 44D1/2. (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on contracts subject to section 44A and which are estimated ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44D3/4 Subcontractor sub-bids; prequalification procedures . Section 44D3/4. (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on contracts subject to section 44A which are estimated to cost ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44D Submission of bid or offer; application for certification . Section 44D. (1) (a) Every bid or offer submitted for a contract subject to section forty-four ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44E Filing of bids; forms; modular buildings . Section 44E. (1) Whenever general bids are invited for a contract subject to section 44A and whenever sub-bids ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44F Plans and specifications; sub-bids; form; contents . Section 44F. (1)(a) Every contract subject to section forty-four A shall include specifications and, if deemed necessary or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44G Allowances; alternates; weather protection devices . Section 44G. (A) “Allowance” as used herein means a sum of money covering one or more items of labor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44H Enforcement . Section 44H. Except as otherwise provided by sections 44A to 44H, inclusive, and except for the consideration and determination after contract award as ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44I Severability . Section 44I. If any provision of sections forty-four A to forty-four H, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any person or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44J Invitations to bid; notice; contents; violations; penalty . Section 44J. (1) No public agency or authority of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44K, 44L Repealed, 1980, 579, Sec. 55 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 44M Energy systems; life-cycle cost estimates . Section 44M. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 45 Work on holidays . Section 45. Whoever requires an employee to work in any mill or factory on any legal holiday, except to perform such ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 46 Work for time lost by holidays . Section 46. No person shall require or request any employee of a manufacturing or mechanical establishment to work ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 47 Sunday work without a day off . Section 47. Whoever, except at the request of the employee, requires an employee engaged in any commercial occupation ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 48 One day of rest in seven; operation of business on Sunday; violations . Section 48. Every employer of labor engaged in carrying on any manufacturing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 49 Establishments not subject to Sunday work and rest days; railroads or railways . Section 49. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to establishments used ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 50 Work not subject to Sunday work and rest days . Section 50. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to (a) janitors; (b) employees whose ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 50A One day of rest in seven for watchmen and employees maintaining fires, violations . Section 50A. Every person employed as a watchman in establishments other ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 51 Posting list of employees working on Sunday; work on days of rest . Section 51. Before operating on Sunday, every employer subject to section forty-eight ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 51A Exemption for special circumstances; days of rest and Sunday business . Section 51A. The attorney general, if it is proved to his satisfaction that special ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 51B Repealed, 1985, 572, Sec. 6 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52 Time books; violation of statute . Section 52. Every employer subject to sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall keep a time book, open to inspection by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52A1/2 Veterans; participation in Veterans or Memorial Day exercise; leave of absence granted; exceptions . Section 52A1/2. Any employee who is a veteran as defined in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52A Ready reserve; absence from work for military training; non-compliance . Section 52A. Any member of an organized unit of the ready reserve of the armed ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52B Employment applications; volunteer work as experience . Section 52B. Every application for employment which requires the applicant to set forth his experience history shall contain ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52C Personnel records; review by employee; corrections; penalty . Section 52C. As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 52D Family and medical leave; enforcement . Section 52D. (a) As used in this section, terms shall have the meanings assigned to them by the federal ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 53, 53A Repealed, 1980, 131, Sec. 2 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 54 Core rooms where workers employed; investigations; regulations; violations . Section 54. The attorney general shall investigate core rooms where workers are employed, and shall make ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 55 Repealed, 1974, 345 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 56 Hours of work; posting notices; making up time lost by stoppage of machinery; employment by shifts; minors employed on farms . Section 56. No minor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 57 Employment in violation of statute . Section 57. A parent or guardian who permits a child under his control to be employed in violation of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 58 Elevator operators . Section 58. Any law restricting the hours of minors laboring in factories or workshops, or in mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical establishments shall, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 59 Repealed, 1974, 371, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 60 Children under sixteen in general; school hours; night work; plays or musical comedies; fashion shows; hospitals . Section 60. No person shall employ a child ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 61 Minors under sixteen; particular employments . Section 61. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen or permit him to work in operating or assisting ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 62 Minors under eighteen . Section 62. No person shall employ a minor under eighteen or permit him to work: (1) in or about blast furnaces; ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 62A Employment of vocational agricultural students . Section 62A. The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting the employment of certain minors shall not prohibit the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 63 Dangerous or injurious employment of minors; hearing and determination . Section 63. The attorney general may, after a hearing duly held, determine whether or not ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 64 Employment of minors where liquor sold; taking or sending minors to immoral places . Section 64. No person shall employ a minor or permit him ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 65 Hours and days of, and time for, work of minors under sixteen; time in continuation school or courses of instruction . Section 65. No person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 66 Time of work for boys and girls under eighteen, and between sixteen and eighteen in restaurants . Section 66. No person shall employ a boy ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 67 Days and hours of work for boys or girls under eighteen . Section 67. Except as limited by section fifty-six, no person shall employ a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 68 Time for work of minor messengers . Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 69 Children as newspaper vendors; restrictions; penalty . Section 69. No boy or girl under twelve shall sell, expose or offer for sale any magazines, periodicals ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 70 Minors under sixteen as vendors and bootblacks, scavengers or other trade in street or public places; charge for badge for employment . Section 70. No ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 71 Issuance of badges to minors; proof of age; grounds for refusal to issue . Section 71. Such badge shall not be issued until the officer ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 72 Badges; wearing; transfer; exhibition; regulations for issuing . Section 72. The badge shall be worn, conspicuously exposed at all times, by such boy or girl ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 73 Time for work of minors under sixteen engaged as vendors, bootblacks, scavengers or in any other trade in streets or public places . Section 73. ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 74 Posting of notice of hours of work of minor; employment at other times; changing terms . Section 74. Except as provided in section fifty-six, every ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 75 Forms of notice furnished by attorney general . Section 75. The attorney general, shall, upon application, furnish the printed forms of the lists and notices ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 76 Inspectors; duties; prosecutions . Section 76. Inspectors shall visit and inspect the places of employment mentioned in sections sixty to sixty-eight, inclusive, and shall ascertain ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 77 Enforcement of statutes; supervisors of attendance; appointment; powers . Section 77. Sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, relating to minors engaged in the occupations mentioned in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 78 Employment of, and permitting work by, minors contrary to statutes; reports of violations . Section 78. Whoever, by himself or for others, or through agents, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 79 Hindering inspectors, supervisors of attendance or department representatives; refusal of admittance or to give information . Section 79. Any person who hinders or delays any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 80 Furnishing minors with articles for sale in, and encouragement of, violation of statutes . Section 80. Whoever furnishes or sells to any minor any article ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 81 Compelling or permitting minor to work in violation of statute; certification of false statement . Section 81. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 82 Violation of statutes by persons issuing badges or enforcing statutes . Section 82. Any inspector, supervisor of attendance, superintendent of schools or other person authorized ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 83 Violation of statutes by minors; revocation of badge; refusal to surrender; working after revocation . Section 83. Any minor who engages in any of the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 84 Service of summons or warrants . Section 84. A summons or warrant issued by any court or trial justice having jurisdiction of the violation of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 85 Nonapplicability of statutes . Section 85. Sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to the juvenile reformatories, other than the Massachusetts reformatory, or prevent ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 86 Employment of children with permit; particular employments; filing, accessibility and return of, and failure to return, permit; list of employed children . Section 86. No ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 87 Employment permits in general; approval; return of evidence of age; certificate by town clerk; notice of child’s violation of statute . Section 87. An employment ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 88 School record for employment permit; educational qualification; necessary school attendance . Section 88. The school record required by section eighty-seven shall be filled out and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 89 Employment permits; contents; signatures; fee; duplicate; records; papers furnished by department; explanatory matter . Section 89. The employment permit required under this chapter shall state ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 90 Violation of statute; forged evidence of age or birth; certification of false statements in, and alteration of, permit . Section 90. Whoever employs a child ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 91 Cessation of employment for non-attendance of continuation school; violation of statute . Section 91. The employer of any minor between fourteen and sixteen who is ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 92 Visiting to ascertain employment of children; reporting illegal employment; complaint; violation of statute . Section 92. Supervisors of attendance may visit the factories, workshops, manufacturing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 93 Employment contrary to statute; taking minor to school; reporting evidence to court or justice; complaint; violation of statute . Section 93. A supervisor of attendance ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 94 Employment permits, educational certificates and lists of employed minors produced for inspection; evidence of illegal employment . Section 94. Supervisors of attendance, representatives of the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 95 Educational certificates in general; attendance at school . Section 95. No minor over sixteen and under eighteen shall be employed in a factory, workshop, manufacturing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 95A Educational certificates; exceptions . Section 95A. A school committee of any city, town or regional school district which accepts the provisions of this section may ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 96 Manual training and industrial education; effect of statutes . Section 96. Sections eighty-six to ninety-five, inclusive, shall not prevent children of any age from receiving ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 97 Violation of statute relating to educational certificates . Section 97. Whoever employs a minor in violation of section ninety-five shall be punished by a fine ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 98 Permission of employment in violation of statute relating to educational certificates; fines for use of evening schools . Section 98. A parent, guardian or custodian ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 99 Repealed, 1974, 372, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 100 Hours of work without interval for meal; duration; violation of statute . Section 100. No person shall be required to work for more than six ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 101 Nonapplicability of statute relating to mealtimes and intervals for meals . Section 101. The preceding section shall not apply to iron works, glass works, paper ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 102 Labor during mealtime without knowledge of employer . Section 102. If a minor shall, without the orders, consent or knowledge of the employer or of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 103 Seats for employees; violation of statute . Section 103. Employers shall provide suitable seats for the use of their employees and shall permit such employees ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 104 Children participants in public exhibitions; violation of statute . Section 104. No person shall employ a child under fifteen years of age, or permit him ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 104A Repealed, 1982, 364, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 105 License for theatrical exhibitions or shows in which children are employed . Section 105. A license shall not be granted for a theatrical exhibition or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 105A Discrimination forbidden; damages; actions in general; assignment of claim; limitations . Section 105A. No employer shall discriminate in any way in the payment of wages ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 105B Violation of statutes; discharge or discrimination because of complaint, proceedings or testimony . Section 105B. Any employer who violates any provision of sections one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 105C Entry of premises, and investigation to determine compliance with statute . Section 105C. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of sections one hundred and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 105D Entitlement of female employees; rights and benefits . Section 105D. A female employee who has completed the initial probationary period set by the terms of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 106 Drinking water; violation of statute; coverage of term “industrial establishments” . Section 106. All industrial establishments and every person engaged in carrying on a construction ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 107 Water for humidifying purposes; violation of statute . Section 107. The water used for humidifying purposes by any person operating a factory or workshop shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 108 Thermometers for humidity and temperature; regulations; place; reading; record . Section 108. In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 109 Nonapplicability of statute relating to thermometers; hygrometers; psychrometers; records . Section 109. The preceding section shall not apply to textile factories equipped with such a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 110 Relative humidity limits . Section 110. No owner, occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of a textile factory shall permit ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 111 Sources of water for humidifying purposes; clean air ducts . Section 111. Water used for humidifying purposes in a textile factory shall be taken either ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 112 Failure to comply with statutes after request . Section 112. Whoever fails to comply with any provision of sections one hundred and eight to one ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 113 Light, ventilation, cleanliness, sanitation and heat in establishments . Section 113. Every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment, railroad freight house, railway express terminal, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 114 Investigations and suggestions relative to eyes and vision . Section 114. The industrial health inspectors shall, when obtaining information concerning the proper lighting of industrial ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 115 Devices and means to prevent injury to eyes; order; compliance; violation of statute . Section 115. If it appears to an inspector that in any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 116 Investigations as to light; notice to change; failure to comply with order . Section 116. Upon the request of any inspector of the division of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 117 Ventilation . Section 117. Every establishment in which one or more persons is employed shall be so ventilated that all gases, vapors, dust, fumes, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 118 Means to diminish inhalation of dust . Section 118. If, in any place of employment, any process is carried on by which dust is caused ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 119 Hoods or hoppers and suction pipes for emery or buffing wheels or belts . Section 119. Any person operating a factory or workshop where emery ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 120 Form and place of hoods or hoppers; size and speed of blowers; approval by attorney general . Section 120. Every such wheel shall be fitted ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 121 Nonapplicability of statutes relating to emery and buffing machinery . Section 121. The two preceding sections shall not apply to grinding machines upon which water ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 122 Violation of statutes relating to ventilation, dust and emery and buffing machinery . Section 122. Violations of sections one hundred and seventeen to one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 123 Inspections relative to apparatus for emery and buffing machinery; complaint; prosecution . Section 123. Inspectors, upon receipt of a notice signed by any person having ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 124 Communication between engineer’s room and machinery room . Section 124. In every manufacturing establishment where the machinery is operated by steam, communication shall be provided ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 125 Violation of statute relating to communication . Section 125. An occupant or manager of a manufacturing establishment who violates the preceding section shall forfeit to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 126 Fastening doors during business hours; violation of statute . Section 126. No inside or outside door of any building subject to the supervision of the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 127 Guards for, and cleaning of, machinery; disconnection and removal of safety devices . Section 127. The belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 128 Traversing carriage of a self-acting mule traveling close to fixed structure . Section 128. The owner of a cotton factory erected after May twenty-eighth, eighteen ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 129 Safeguards for hoistways, hatchways and well holes; closing trapdoors . Section 129. The openings of hoistways, hatchways and well holes upon every floor of an ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 129A Shoring trenches for local governments; graves excepted . Section 129A. On any construction project carried on by any city, town, county or other subdivision of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 129B Stilts; penalty for requiring or knowingly permitting use in construction . Section 129B. Whoever, being engaged in construction work, requires or knowingly permits any person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 129C Installation or repair of live electric wires or electrical equipment; assistance; safety equipment; penalty . Section 129C. Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 129D Riding in man-basket carried by hoisting machinery for bungee jumping or other safety approved activity . Section 129D. No person shall be prohibited from riding ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 130 Explosives or inflammable materials; storage and use near egress . Section 130. Explosive or inflammable compounds or materials shall not be so stored or used ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 131 Guards for loom shuttles; violation of statute . Section 131. Any person owning, managing or operating a factory where looms are used shall equip them ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 132 Suction shuttles; shuttle or thread touching lips; violation of statute . Section 132. No proprietor of a factory nor any officer or agent or other ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 133 Water closets, toilets and washing facilities; regulations; definitions of “industrial establishments” and “railroad establishments” . Section 133. In every industrial establishment and railroad establishment there ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 134 Necessary changes; action for proportion of expense . Section 134. The owner, lessee or occupant of every such establishment shall make the changes necessary to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 135 Prosecutions; necessity of neglect to make changes; notice; liability of corporate officer . Section 135. A criminal prosecution shall not be begun against a person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 136 Violation of public health laws; notice to town board of health; enforcement . Section 136. If it appears to an inspector that any act, neglect ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 137 Foundry toilet rooms and water closets; failure to comply with statute . Section 137. The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 138 Injuring toilet appliances . Section 138. Whoever wilfully destroys, defaces, injures or defiles any toilet appliances provided in any place of employment shall be punished ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 139 Lockers and clothes receptacles of employees; violation of statute . Section 139. In any mercantile or manufacturing establishment or hotel or railroad where the nature ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 140 Repealed, 1953, 57 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 141 Medical and surgical chests; accommodations for treatment of injured or ill persons; facilities for heating food; violation of statute . Section 141. Every person operating ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 141A Lifting heavy objects in textile factories . Section 141A. No person or persons employed in a textile factory, whose principal employment is the tending or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142 Sanitary material for cleaning printing presses . Section 142. All publishers and printers shall use a sanitary cloth or other sanitary material in cleaning their ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142A Marked receptacles for substances hazardous to health . Section 142A. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142B Marked receptacles for materials containing substances hazardous to health . Section 142B. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142C Markings; clear and conspicuous; size; place . Section 142C. The words and any warning required by sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142D Receptacles exempt from marking requirements . Section 142D. The director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health acting jointly may, by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142E Reports concerning material hazardous to health . Section 142E. For the protection of persons exposed to possible injury by any material or substance which in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142F Violation of statutes and regulations; failure to mark receptacles; removal or defacement of marks . Section 142F. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 142G Enforcement of statutes and regulations . Section 142G. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 143 Definitions . Section 143. The following words, as used in this section and in sections one hundred and forty-three A and one hundred and forty-four ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 143A Protection from undue competition and of health and well-being of workers . Section 143A. Protection of factory industries from undue competition and protection of the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 144 Unlawful industrial homework . Section 144. The manufacture of or work upon any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 145 Investigation of industries; order declaring industrial homework unlawful . Section 145. The attorney general may make or cause to be made an investigation of any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 146 Hearing preceding order; notice; place; effective date of order . Section 146. Before making such order the attorney general shall hold a public hearing or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 146A Distribution of materials and articles; necessity of place of employment in commonwealth . Section 146A. The employer shall, wherever industrial homework is permitted, distribute directly ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147 Employer’s permit; person to whom materials or articles may be delivered; effect of strike; payment of fees into treasury . Section 147. No materials for ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147A Homeworker’s certificate; place of work; work performed by others; qualifications of applicant and home; strike against employer . Section 147A. No person shall engage in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147B Employer’s name and address affixed to articles or container of goods delivered for homework . Section 147B. No employer shall deliver or cause to be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147C Work in violation of statutes; removal, retention and disposition of articles; notice . Section 147C. Any article which is being manufactured or worked upon in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147D Record of homeworkers and work . Section 147D. No person in possession of an employer’s permit shall deliver or receive, or cause to be delivered ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147E Regulations; violations; inspections and investigations . Section 147E. The attorney general shall make rules and regulations for the enforcement of sections one hundred and forty-four ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147F Attendance of witnesses and production of books and papers; summons and court order; fees; oaths; depositions . Section 147F. In making any investigation or examination ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147G Additional penalties . Section 147G. In addition to any penalties otherwise prescribed in sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 147H Educational and philanthropic organizations; homework performed under supervision of commission for the blind . Section 147H. The provisions of sections one hundred and forty-three to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 148 Payment of wages; commissions; exemption by contract; persons deemed employers; provision for cashing check or draft; violation of statute . Section 148. Every person having ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 148A Employees seeking rights under provisions of this chapter; discharge or discrimination; punishment . Section 148A. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 148B Persons performing service not authorized under this chapter deemed employees; exception . Section 148B. (a) For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 151, an ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 149 Summons and warrant for violations of Sec. 148 . Section 149. A justice or clerk of a district court, or a trial justice, may upon ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 150 Complaint for violation of certain sections; defenses; payment after complaint; assignments; loan of wages to employer; civil action . Section 150. The attorney general may ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 150A Notification of deductions . Section 150A. Every person making a deduction from wages of any employee for social security, unemployment compensation benefits, pension, vacation or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 150B Fees or assessments other than those chargeable under union constitution and by-laws . Section 150B. No labor union, or person acting in its behalf, shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 150C Improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages; penalties . Section 150C. Any person having employees in his service who withholds or deducts wages from ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 151 Payment on pay day before close of working hours . Section 151. Persons carrying on any manufacturing business employing one hundred or more persons shall, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 152 Deductions for coming late to work . Section 152. There shall not be deducted from the wages of an employee in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 152A Service charges and tips; tip pools; penalties . Section 152A. (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless a different meaning is required ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 153 Grading work of weavers; imperfections affecting wages; conditions precedent to fines . Section 153. No system used by manufacturers for grading the work of a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 154 Employer’s fine upon weaver for imperfections; violations of statutes . Section 154. No employer shall impose a fine upon an employee engaged at weaving for ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 155 Specifications as to work and wages for weavers, frame tenders, warpers, web drawers and operatives paid by the pound . Section 155. The occupier or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 156 Specifications and tickets; posting and attaching; contents; pick clocks; excess of maximum lengths; violation of statute . Section 156. The occupier or manager of every ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 157 Violation of Sec. 155; interference with inspectors . Section 157. Violation of any provision of section one hundred and fifty-five shall for the first offence ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 157A Employees paid by piece; tickets stating basis of remuneration; posting statement of amount of pay earned . Section 157A. Every person operating a factory or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 158 Stopped machinery; deductions from wages; making up lost time; penalty . Section 158. Deductions shall not be made from the wages of persons paid by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 158A Work without compensation . Section 158A. Whoever requires or permits any person, as a condition of securing employment, to work in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 159 Discharge of employee without notice . Section 159. A person engaged in manufacturing who requires from his employees, under penalty or forfeiture of a part ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 159A Repealed, 2004, 125, Sec. 14. . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 159B Reimbursement of expenses for medical examinations . Section 159B. Any employer who requests or requires a person who is a present or prospective employee to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 159C Staffing agencies; work site employers; transportation services . Section 159C. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 160 Establishment and maintenance; annual reports . Section 160. The department may establish and maintain in such cities as may be selected by it after investigation, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 161 Superintendents and clerks; appointment; sign indicating location of office . Section 161. The commissioner shall appoint for each of the offices provided for in the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 162 Superintendents; duties; applications; registration; aliens; agriculture labor; strikes . Section 162. The superintendents of said employment offices shall receive applications from those seeking employment and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 163 Fees; violation . Section 163. No fees shall in any case be taken from those seeking the benefits of said employment offices. Any superintendent or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 164 Preference to residents . Section 164. In registering applications for employment and for employees wanted, preference shall be given to residents of the commonwealth. ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 165 Reports exchanged among offices, supplied to public, posted . Section 165. Each superintendent shall make to the commissioner such reports of applications for labor or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 166 Payment of salaries and expenses; appropriation . Section 166. There shall be allowed and paid, upon the approval of the commissioner, for salaries and for ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 167 Bulletins for town clerks showing demand for employment . Section 167. The commissioner may furnish weekly to the clerks of all towns in the commonwealth ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 168 Posting bulletins; failure to comply . Section 168. Every town clerk shall post the lists received as aforesaid in one or more conspicuous places in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 168A Farm labor contracts; notice to department . Section 168A. Any employer who enters into a farm labor contract with a farm labor contractor for the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 169 to 172 Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 250 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 173 Destruction or sale of records and papers . Section 173. The commissioner, having first obtained authority from the governor and council, may destroy or sell ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 174 Repealed, 1929, 357, Sec. 2 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 175 Bells, whistles and gongs . Section 175. Manufacturers and others employing workmen may, for the purpose of giving notice to them, ring bells and use ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 176 Non-resident as special police officer . Section 176. If, in an emergency, special police officers are appointed, under the name of police officers or any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 177 Police assistance in protecting property; non-residents assisting with arms; liability in damages . Section 177. A person may, if his property is in danger, call ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 177A Contract exempting employer from liability to employee . Section 177A. No person shall, by a special contract with his employees, exempt himself from liability which ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 177B Volunteer firefighters; responding to emergencies; discharge from other employment . Section 177B. No employer shall discharge or take any other disciplinary action against any employee ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178 Leave of absence from work for voting . Section 178. No owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment shall employ or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178A Payment of wages of intestate employee; officer or employee of commonwealth or subdivision . Section 178A. Wages or salary not in excess of one hundred ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178B Deductions from salary for certain financial institutions; credit union bonds; withdrawal of authorization by employee; attachment or execution; pension money paid to credit unions; authorization . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178C Sum owed estate of officer or employee of political subdivisions paid to husband, widow or next of kin . Section 178C. Whenever any officer or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178D Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178E Group insurance; disposition of dividends . Section 178E. If a dividend is declared or a reduction in rate is made under any group insurance policy, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178F to 178N Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 178O Group insurance termination; notice of date to employee . Section 178O. An employer terminating employment of an employee insured under a group insurance policy shall, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 179 Placards posted to inform employees . Section 179. The department may require employers to post in conspicuous positions in any place of employment such placards, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 179A Preference to citizens in awarding public work contracts; violations . Section 179A. In the awarding of contracts for public work by the commonwealth or by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 179B Notice to commissioner of commencement or change of location of business; violations . Section 179B. The owner of every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 179C Collective bargaining agreements; successor clauses . Section 179C. Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization as defined in subsection (5) ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 180 Violation of chapter provisions with no specific penalty . Section 180. Whoever violates a provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is provided ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 180A Violation of closing laws . Section 180A. Whoever violates any provisions of the second paragraph of clause (50) of section six or the second paragraph ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 181 Retirement or health and welfare funds; failure of employer to make payments . Section 181. It shall be unlawful for any employer who has entered ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 182 Standards of corporate behavior; companies financed with assistance of quasi-public agencies . Section 182. Any person utilizing financing issued, insured, or subsidized by a quasi-public ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 183 Severance pay upon termination following transfer of control of employer; definitions . Section 183. (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 184 Severance pay following transfer of control or attempted transfer of control of registered corporation; definitions . Section 184. (a) As used in this section, the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 185 Retaliation against employees reporting violations of law or risks to public health, safety or environment; remedies . Section 185. (a) As used in this section, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 186 Broadcasting industry; noncompete agreements . Section 186. Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of employment for an employee or individual in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Labor and Industries - Chapter 149, Section 187 Health care providers; protection from retaliatory action by health care facilities . Section 187. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have ...
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