General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 149 Labor and Industries

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 149, Section 1
  In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings: “Apprentice”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of chapter - Chapter 149, Section 2
  The attorney general shall, except as otherwise specifically provided, enforce the provisions of this chapter, and shall have all necessary powers therefor.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections and investigations - Chapter 149, Section 3
  The inspection and investigation carried on by the attorney general shall be a regular and systematic inspection and investigation of all places of employment, other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of diseases - Chapter 149, Section 4
  The department shall promptly report to the department of public health all cases of disease in industrial establishments affecting the health of the community.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations of industrial conditions; complaints; prosecutions - Chapter 149, Section 5
  The attorney general may investigate conditions existing in any line of industry, and such investigations may be extended outside of the commonwealth to procure information...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Safety devices and means to prevent accidents and diseases generally; fees for structural painting - Chapter 149, Section 6
  The department shall or the attorney general may investigate, from time to time, employments and places of employment, including, but not limited to, such places...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of regulations for the protection of employees consistent with federal Occupational Safety and Health Act; occupational health and safety hazard advisory board - Chapter 149, Section 61/2
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 144, Sec. 26 effective March 24, 2015. See 2014, 144, Sec. 81.] (a) This section shall apply to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Monitoring, inspection and investigation of work involving asbestos - Chapter 149, Section 6A
  The department shall monitor, inspect and investigate all work, including construction, demolition, alteration or repair, involving any building or structure, including those owned or leased...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License for business activities involving asbestos; fee - Chapter 149, Section 6B
  No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall enter into, engage in, or work at the business of removal, containment or encapsulation of asbestos or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health and safety of general public and asbestos workers; rules and regulations - Chapter 149, Section 6C
  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations relative to the protection of the general public and the occupational health and safety of workers engaged in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints by employees relating to asbestos; retaliation by employer - Chapter 149, Section 6D
  No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of such employee’s filing of a complaint or otherwise providing notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employer required to reimburse Health Safety Net Trust Fund; retaliation by employer prohibited - Chapter 149, Section 6D1/2
  No employee shall be penalized by an employer as a result of such employee’s filing of an application to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of workplace standards relating to asbestos; cease and desist orders - Chapter 149, Section 6E
  The commissioner, upon determination that there is a violation of any workplace standard relative to the protection of the general public and the occupational health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 149, Section 6F
  Any person, firm, corporation or other entity which violates any provision of sections six B to six E, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action for temporary restraining order or injunction against violations of Secs. 6A to 6E; enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 6F1/2
  (a) In addition to the cease and desist authority granted in section 6E and the criminal penalties provided for in section 6F, whenever the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Release or waiver of damages caused by asbestos - Chapter 149, Section 6G
  No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall require any other person, firm, corporation or entity to execute a release or waiver of damages caused...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Committees for investigations and recommendation of regulations - Chapter 149, Section 7
  The commissioner, assistant commissioner and associate commissioners of the department may appoint committees, on which employers and employees shall be represented, to make such investigations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notices and hearings before adoption of regulations and orders; effective dates - Chapter 149, Section 8
  Before adopting any rule or regulation under section six, a public hearing shall be given, and not less than ten days before the hearing a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals; suspensions pending hearings; enforcement of orders; other remedies - Chapter 149, Section 9
  Any person affected by an order, rule or regulation of the department may appeal to the associate commissioners within such time as they by vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry of places of employment for investigations - Chapter 149, Section 10
  In order to make investigations under section six, members or employees of the department or the attorney general’s office may at any time enter places...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports by physicians generally - Chapter 149, Section 11
  The department may require every physician treating a patient whom he believes to be suffering from any ailment or disease contracted as a result of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupational lead registry; blood lead testing reports; regulations; enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 11A
  To assist in the identification and treatment of workers exposed to lead and to reduce the incidence of occupational lead poisoning in the commonwealth, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations prevailing over regulations of workmen’s compensation insurer - Chapter 149, Section 12
  If any rule or regulation made under authority of section sixty-four of chapter one hundred and fifty-two conflicts with or differs from a rule or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of regulations or orders - Chapter 149, Section 13
  No person shall violate any reasonable rule, regulation, order or requirement made by the department under section six or eleven.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports of commissioner - Chapter 149, Section 14
  The commissioner shall make an annual report, including the reports required by sections one hundred and sixty and one hundred and seventy of this chapter,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection districts; assignment of inspectors - Chapter 149, Section 15
  With the approval of the associate commissioners and the assistant commissioner, the commissioner may divide the commonwealth into inspection districts, and assign the necessary number...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of gift by inspector - Chapter 149, Section 16
  An inspector who directly or indirectly receives a reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official services shall be punished by a fine of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry of places of employment for examinations and investigations; access to records - Chapter 149, Section 17
  For the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner, the assistant commissioner and the associate commissioners, and the director, inspectors, and other representatives...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of industrial health inspectors relative to minors - Chapter 149, Section 18
  Every industrial health inspector shall inform himself concerning the health of all minors employed in factories within his district; and whenever he may deem it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sanitary and safety conditions; tools - Chapter 149, Section 18A
  Employers shall provide a change room with adequate storage facilities for clothes, shower baths and lavatories having hot and cold water, in every place of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confined spaces; ventilation - Chapter 149, Section 18B
  Before allowing employees to enter confined spaces where flammable, poisonous, asphyxiant, suffocant or anesthetic vapors, gases or dusts are likely to exist, the area shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Power transmission equipment - Chapter 149, Section 18C
  Power transmission equipment (such as gears, belts, pulleys, sprockets, etc.) shall be enclosed or guarded in a manner that will prevent accidental injury to workers....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ropes, hooks and cranes; use and operation - Chapter 149, Section 18D
  All chains, wire ropes and fiber ropes shall be of sufficient strength to safely lift or otherwise handle the loads. The use of deformed hooks...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Safety precautions in dangerous undertakings - Chapter 149, Section 18E
  Persons working in locations where there is a hazard to the head or eyes shall be safeguarded by means of head or eye protection. Protection...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Explosives - Chapter 149, Section 18F
  Explosives and other dangerous articles and substances shall be loaded, unloaded, stored, transported or otherwise handled in accordance with United States Coast Guard regulations.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Industrial truck and internal combustion equipment; operation; construction of docks - Chapter 149, Section 18G
  Every industrial truck (lift truck or jitney) and tractor, except those guided or controlled by a walking operator shall be equipped with a clearly audible...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stop signals - Chapter 149, Section 18H
  The employer shall provide blue stop signs for use by day and blue lights if night work is necessary, and shall cause them to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 149, Section 18I
  Any person violating any provision of the preceding sections eighteen A, eighteen B, eighteen C, eighteen D, eighteen E, eighteen F, eighteen G and eighteen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention of employment - Chapter 149, Section 19
  No person shall, by intimidation or force, prevent or seek to prevent a person from entering into or continuing in the employment of any person.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Copy of medical report for employee - Chapter 149, Section 19A
  Any employer requiring a physical examination of an employee shall, upon request, cause said person to be furnished with a copy of the medical report...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lie detector tests; use as condition of employment; penalty; civil action - Chapter 149, Section 19B
  (1) As used in this section the term “lie detector test” shall mean any test utilizing a polygraph or any other device, mechanism, instrument or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of aliens restricted; regulations; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 19C
  It shall be unlawful for any employer knowingly to employ any alien in the commonwealth, who is a student or visitor or, who has not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coercion of agreement not to join a labor organization - Chapter 149, Section 20
  No person shall, himself or by his agent, coerce or compel a person into a written or oral agreement not to join or become a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Relief afforded by contract relative to membership in a labor or employer organization - Chapter 149, Section 20A
  No contract, whether written or oral, between any employee or prospective employee and his employer, prospective employer or any other person, whereby either party thereto...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for unlawful acts of officers, members or agents of an organization - Chapter 149, Section 20B
  No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization, participating or interested in a labor dispute, as defined in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 149, 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 of chapter two hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation, acceptance or payment of money to encourage or discourage formation or functioning of a labor organization - Chapter 149, Section 20D
  No employer and no person retained or engaged by him as a labor relations expert, adviser or consultant or retained or engaged by such employer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business combination transactions; labor contracts; definitions; remedies - Chapter 149, Section 20E
  No business combination transaction shall result in the termination or impairment of the provisions of any labor contract covering persons engaged in employment in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False notices or advertisement for help or employment - Chapter 149, Section 21
  Whoever knowingly causes to be printed or published a false or fraudulent notice or advertisement for help or for obtaining work or employment, or whoever,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising for or soliciting employees during labor troubles; notice to employment agency; employment of children - Chapter 149, Section 22
  If an employer, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees, publicly advertises in newspapers or by posters or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Professional strikebreakers; obstruction of picketing - Chapter 149, Section 22A
  No person shall knowingly employ any professional strikebreaker in the place of an employee involved in a lockout or lawful strike. No professional strikebreaker shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filling place of employees; size of letters mentioning labor troubles; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 23
  No person, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees or those of another person, shall directly or indirectly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armed guards during labor troubles; qualifications; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 23A
  No person, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees or those of another person, shall directly or indirectly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of civil defense personnel in labor disputes - Chapter 149, Section 23B
  The auxiliary police or other personnel originally organized by civil defense agencies under state or federal civil defense laws shall not be used or called...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Communications and conduct during labor disputes - Chapter 149, Section 24
  No person shall be punished criminally, or held liable or answerable in any action at law or suit in equity, for persuading or attempting to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dismissal or refusal to employ; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 24A
  Whoever dismisses from private sector employment any person over the age of forty, or refuses to employ such person because of his age, except as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract provisions - Chapter 149, Section 24B
  Any provision in any contract, agreement or understanding entered into on or after September first, nineteen hundred and eighty-four, which shall prevent the private sector...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of complaints; ascertainment of age of employees; examination and transcript of records - Chapter 149, Section 24C
  The department shall investigate all complaints of discrimination, and for that purpose the commissioner or his authorized representative shall have full power and authority (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of ages of employees; copy furnished to commissioner; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 24D
  Every person shall keep true and accurate records of the ages of all persons employed by him, as far as practicable to do so, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hindering investigation; refusal of information - Chapter 149, Section 24E
  Whoever hinders or delays an inspector of the department, or a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, in the performance of his duties in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of employee for furnishing evidence or testifying - Chapter 149, Section 24F
  Whoever, personally or by his agent, shall discharge an employee for the reason that such employee has furnished evidence in connection with a complaint under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of name of employer; summons to show cause; liability for damages - Chapter 149, Section 24G
  If the commissioner or any of his authorized representatives has reason to believe that any employer has dismissed from private sector employment or has refused...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from decision of commissioner - Chapter 149, Section 24H
  Any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner under any provision of sections twenty-four A to twenty-four G, inclusive, may appeal to the superior...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Farm labor - Chapter 149, 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 - Partial invalidity - Chapter 149, Section 24J
  If any part or subdivision of any of sections twenty-four A to twenty-four I, inclusive, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 533, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 24K
  Repealed, 1983, 533, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lodging, board and trade of public employees; statute part of employment contract - Chapter 149, Section 25
  Every employee in public work shall lodge, board and trade where and with whom he elects; and no person or his agents or employees under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public works; preference to veterans and citizens; wages - Chapter 149, Section 26
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] In the employment of mechanics and apprentices, teamsters, chauffeurs and laborers in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of jobs; classification; schedule of wages; penalty; civil action - Chapter 149, Section 27
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] The commissioner shall prepare, for the use of such public officials or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals from classifications and wage determinations - Chapter 149, Section 27A
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Within five days from the date of the first advertisement or call...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of employees; payroll records; statements of compliance - Chapter 149, Section 27B
  [ First paragraph effective until June 24, 2014. For text effective June 24, 2014, see below.] Every contractor, subcontractor or public body engaged in said...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violations of certain sections by employers, contractors, subcontractors or their employees - Chapter 149, Section 27C
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] (a)(1) Any employer, contractor or subcontractor, or any officer, agent, superintendent, foreman,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Construction” and “constructed” defined - Chapter 149, Section 27D
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Wherever used in sections twenty-six to twenty-seven C, inclusive, the words “construction”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of residents in highway districts - Chapter 149, Section 27E
  At least seventy-five per cent of the persons employed by the department of highways to work in connection with the construction, reconstruction, alteration or repair...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wages of operators of rented equipment; agreements; penalty; civil action - Chapter 149, Section 27F
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] No agreement of lease, rental or other arrangement, and no order or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wages of employees of moving contractors; contracts; injunctive relief; damages - Chapter 149, Section 27G
  No contract for the moving of office furniture and fixtures shall be entered into or given by the commonwealth or by a county, city, town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wages of employees of maintenance or cleaning contractors; contracts; civil action - Chapter 149, Section 27H
  No agreement or contract providing for the cleaning and maintenance of public buildings or space rented by the commonwealth, shall be entered into or given...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of action against city or town for labor; filing statement; fee; limitations - Chapter 149, Section 28
  A person to whom a debt is due for labor performed in constructing a building, sewer or drain, or water works or other public works...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repayment of unemployment benefits overpaid to certain officers, partners, owners or other interest holders of employing unit - Chapter 149, Section 28B
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 144, Sec. 64 effective March 24, 2015. See 2014, 144, Sec. 81.] If an employee, who is a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - 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 - Chapter 149, Section 29
  Officers or agents contracting in behalf of the commonwealth or in behalf of any county, city, town, district or other political subdivision of the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of surety bonds by persons furnishing labor or materials on private building projects - Chapter 149, Section 29A
  Whenever any surety bond shall be given in connection with any written contract for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of any private building or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver or cancellation of payment bond - Chapter 149, Section 29B
  No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel the requirement for furnishing a payment bond shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification as part of contract - Chapter 149, Section 29C
  Any provision for or in connection with a contract for construction, reconstruction, installation, alteration, remodeling, repair, demolition or maintenance work, including without limitation, excavation, backfilling...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surety company; bonds - Chapter 149, Section 29D
  Every bid bond, every performance bond and every payment bond issued for any construction work in the commonwealth shall be the bond of a surety...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction contracts; reasonable time periods for periodic progress payments and increases in contract price; payment conditioned upon receipt of payment from third party; requirement to continue performance of construction without payment - Chapter 149, Section 29E
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 293, Sec. 2.] (a) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eight hour day and six day week; emergencies; work on highways - Chapter 149, Section 30
  The service of all laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen and inspectors now or hereafter employed by the commonwealth or any county therein or any town which,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tours of duty and hours of work of state employees; regulations - Chapter 149, Section 30A
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or other general or special law, the service of all persons employed by the commonwealth is hereby restricted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime of state employees; regulations - Chapter 149, Section 30B
  All service in excess of eight hours in any one tour of duty or forty hours in any one work week rendered by any employee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work week of uniformed members of state police; overtime service; compensation; rules and regulations - Chapter 149, Section 30C
  The service of all members of the uniformed members of the state police and land based environmental police officers of the division of law enforcement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eight hour day for towns and public works for towns; emergencies; acceptance of statute relating to employees of commonwealth - Chapter 149, Section 31
  The service of all laborers, workmen and mechanics now or hereafter employed by any town which has accepted section twenty of chapter one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Scope of words “laborers, workmen and mechanics” and “requiring” - Chapter 149, Section 32
  In construing sections thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four the words “laborers, workmen and mechanics” shall be deemed to include engineers and also janitors, custodians and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours of labor to make up Saturday half holiday - Chapter 149, Section 33
  It shall not be a violation of section thirty or thirty-one if, in the event of a Saturday half holiday being given to a laborer,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Five day and forty hour week for cities and towns; emergencies; overtime; reduction of compensation - Chapter 149, Section 33A
  Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Five day week and eight hour day for cities and towns; overtime; reduction of compensation - Chapter 149, Section 33B
  Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City and town employees; overtime; effective date - Chapter 149, Section 33C
  Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, any permanent employee of a city or town who is required to work in excess of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blood donations; leave of absence without loss of pay - Chapter 149, Section 33D
  Any employee of the commonwealth, of any county, and of any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, shall be allowed a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leave of absence to serve as organ donor; state, county and certain municipal employees - Chapter 149, Section 33E
  (a) An employee of the commonwealth or of a county, or of a city or town that accepts this section, may take a leave of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public contracts; stipulation as to hours and days of work; void contracts - Chapter 149, Section 34
  Every contract, except for the purchase of material or supplies, involving the employment of laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen or inspectors, to which the commonwealth or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for public works; workers’ compensation insurance; breach of contract; enforcement and violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 34A
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for public works; wages for reserve police officer - Chapter 149, Section 34B
  Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or addition to, any public works for the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 30, 34 and 35 - Chapter 149, Section 34C
  The provisions of sections thirty, thirty-four and thirty-five and of any other pertinent sections shall apply to the commonwealth or any city or town only...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of Sec. 30, 31 or 34 - Chapter 149, Section 35
  Any agent or official of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, or any contractor or sub-contractor, or any agent or person acting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of eight hour day and six day week statutes - Chapter 149, Section 36
  Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply to the preparation, printing, shipment and delivery of ballots to be used at a caucus, primary, state,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nine hour day for towns - Chapter 149, Section 37
  In any town not subject to section thirty or thirty-one nine hours shall constitute a day’s work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual vacation for employees of commonwealth - Chapter 149, Section 38
  All laborers, workmen and mechanics permanently in the employ of the commonwealth who are within the provisions of section thirty as affected by sections thirty-two...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours of labor in institutions; employees with less hours under other statutes; emergencies - Chapter 149, Section 39
  The maximum hours of labor of laborers, workmen and mechanics, of ward attendants, ward nurses, industrial and occupational therapists and watchmen, and of employees in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 632, Sec. 2 - Chapter 149, Section 40
  Repealed, 1954, 632, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Saturday half holiday for commonwealth - Chapter 149, Section 41
  Except as provided in section sixty-five of chapter ninety-two, all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the commonwealth in any capacity, or by any officer,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work by employees of commonwealth on day work basis - Chapter 149, Section 42
  So far as possible, all work by laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the commonwealth or by any officer, department, board or commission on behalf...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nondiscrimination - Chapter 149, Section 43
  The application of a citizen of the commonwealth for employment in any department of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service by veterans on Memorial Day - Chapter 149, Section 44
  No veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town therein, except...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Termination of employment for veterans following return from overseas duty - Chapter 149, Section 441/2
  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a state or municipal government entity shall not terminate the employment of any veteran for at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preference in promoting or hiring veteran, spouse of honorably discharged disabled veteran or surviving spouse of veteran - Chapter 149, Section 443/4
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 62, Sec. 25 effective July 2, 2014.]Notwithstanding chapter 151B, a private, nonpublic employer may provide a preference in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; competitive bids; award; bonds; extreme emergency situations; records contracts not subjected to competitive bid process - Chapter 149, Section 44A
  (1) The words defined in this section shall have the meaning set forth below whenever they appear in sections forty-four A through forty-four H, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fair competition for bidders on construction - Chapter 149, Section 44A1/2
  (a) A public agency, before entering into a contract for design services pursuant to section 38D or section 38K of chapter 7, shall contract for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plans and specifications; bid deposits - Chapter 149, Section 44B
  (1) The awarding authority shall prepare for bidding purposes a sufficient number of sets of plans and specifications so that there will be available without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or debarment of contractors - Chapter 149, Section 44C
  The commissioner may suspend or debar contractors in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine F of chapter twenty-nine.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of bid or offer; application for certification - Chapter 149, Section 44D
  (1) (a) Every bid or offer submitted for a contract subject to section forty-four A shall be accompanied by a copy of a certificate of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General contractor bids; prequalification procedures - Chapter 149, Section 44D1/2
  (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on contracts subject to section 44A and which are estimated to cost not less than $10,000,000 shall prequalify...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Subcontractor sub-bids; prequalification procedures - Chapter 149, Section 44D3/4
  (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on contracts subject to section 44A which are estimated to cost not less than $10,000,000 shall prequalify subcontractors...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of bids; forms; modular buildings - Chapter 149, Section 44E
  (1) Whenever general bids are invited for a contract subject to section 44A and whenever sub-bids are invited in connection with such a contract subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Renovation and repair of state house and historic Suffolk County courthouse; solicitation of bids; evaluation of bids; contract award; payment and performance bonds - Chapter 149, Section 44E1/2
  The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance may procure construction contracts for the renovation or repair of the state house and the historic Suffolk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plans and specifications; sub-bids; form; contents - Chapter 149, Section 44F
  (1)(a) Every contract subject to section forty-four A shall include specifications and, if deemed necessary or convenient by the awarding authority, plans, detailing all labor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Allowances; alternates; weather protection devices - Chapter 149, Section 44G
  (A) “Allowance” as used herein means a sum of money covering one or more items of labor or labor and materials which is designated in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 44H
  Except as otherwise provided by sections 44A to 44H, inclusive, and except for the consideration and determination after contract award as to whether an item...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severability - Chapter 149, 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 circumstance shall be held...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Invitations to bid; notice; contents; violations; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 44J
  [Subsection (1) applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 23 and 46.] (1) No public agency or authority of the commonwealth or any political subdivision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 579, Sec. 55 - Chapter 149, Section 44K 44L
  Repealed, 1980, 579, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Energy systems; life-cycle cost estimates - Chapter 149, Section 44M
  As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— “New Building”, an entire building or any addition to an existing building...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work on holidays - Chapter 149, Section 45
  Whoever requires an employee to work in any mill or factory on any legal holiday, except to perform such work as is both absolutely necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work for time lost by holidays - Chapter 149, Section 46
  No person shall require or request any employee of a manufacturing or mechanical establishment to work more hours in any one day than is limited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sunday work without a day off - Chapter 149, Section 47
  Whoever, except at the request of the employee, requires an employee engaged in any commercial occupation or in the work of any industrial process not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - One day of rest in seven; operation of business on Sunday; violations - Chapter 149, Section 48
  Every employer of labor engaged in carrying on any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment or workshop in the commonwealth shall allow every person, except those...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishments not subject to Sunday work and rest days; railroads or railways - Chapter 149, Section 49
  Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to establishments used for the manufacture or distribution of gas, electricity, milk or water, to hotels, to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work not subject to Sunday work and rest days - Chapter 149, Section 50
  Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to (a) janitors; (b) employees whose duties include no work on Sunday other than (1) setting sponges in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - One day of rest in seven for watchmen and employees maintaining fires, violations - Chapter 149, Section 50A
  Every person employed as a watchman in establishments other than those described in section forty-eight, or employed in maintaining fires in such establishments, but not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting list of employees working on Sunday; work on days of rest - Chapter 149, Section 51
  Before operating on Sunday, every employer subject to section forty-eight or fifty A shall post in a conspicuous place on the premises a schedule containing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption for special circumstances; days of rest and Sunday business - Chapter 149, Section 51A
  The attorney general, if it is proved to his satisfaction that special circumstances require an exemption from section forty-eight, may grant such exemption under such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 572, Sec. 6 - Chapter 149, Section 51B
  Repealed, 1985, 572, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time books; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 52
  Every employer subject to sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall keep a time book, open to inspection by the department, showing the names and addresses of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ready reserve; absence from work for military training; non-compliance - Chapter 149, Section 52A
  Any member of an organized unit of the ready reserve of the armed forces, who, in order to receive military training with the armed forces...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans; participation in Veterans or Memorial Day exercise; leave of absence granted; exceptions - Chapter 149, Section 52A1/2
  Any employee who is a veteran as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four or is a member of a department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment applications; volunteer work as experience - Chapter 149, Section 52B
  Every application for employment which requires the applicant to set forth his experience history shall contain a statement that the applicant may include in such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personnel records; review by employee; corrections; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 52C
  As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Employee”, a person currently employed or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Family and medical leave; enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 52D
  (a) As used in this section, terms shall have the meanings assigned to them by the federal act, notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 1...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 131, Sec. 2 - Chapter 149, Section 53 53A
  Repealed, 1980, 131, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Core rooms where workers employed; investigations; regulations; violations - Chapter 149, Section 54
  The attorney general shall investigate core rooms where workers are employed, and shall make rules regulating the employment of workers therein. The rules shall relate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 345 - Chapter 149, Section 55
  Repealed, 1974,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours of work; posting notices; making up time lost by stoppage of machinery; employment by shifts; minors employed on farms - Chapter 149, Section 56
  No minor shall be employed or permitted to work in, or in connection with, any factory or workshop, or any manufacturing, mercantile or mechanical establishment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment in violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 57
  A parent or guardian who permits a child under his control to be employed in violation of the preceding section, and any person who, either...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Elevator operators - Chapter 149, Section 58
  Any law restricting the hours of minors laboring in factories or workshops, or in mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical establishments shall, unless it is otherwise expressly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 371, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 59
  Repealed, 1974, 371, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Children under sixteen in general; school hours; night work; plays or musical comedies; fashion shows; hospitals - Chapter 149, Section 60
  No person shall employ a child under sixteen years of age, or permit him to work in, about or in connection with any factory, workshop,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors under sixteen; particular employments - Chapter 149, Section 61
  No person shall employ a minor under sixteen or permit him to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors under eighteen - Chapter 149, Section 62
  No person shall employ a minor under eighteen or permit him to work: (1) in or about blast furnaces; (2) in the operation or management...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of vocational agricultural students - Chapter 149, Section 62A
  The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting the employment of certain minors shall not prohibit the employment of minors fourteen years of age and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dangerous or injurious employment of minors; hearing and determination - Chapter 149, Section 63
  The attorney general may, after a hearing duly held, determine whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation, in which the employment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of minors where liquor sold; taking or sending minors to immoral places - Chapter 149, Section 64
  No person shall employ a minor or permit him to work in, about or in connection with any saloon or bar room where alcoholic liquors...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours and days of, and time for, work of minors under sixteen; time in continuation school or courses of instruction - Chapter 149, Section 65
  No person shall employ a minor under sixteen, or permit him to work, in any occupation for which a permit for employment is required, for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time of work for children; exceptions - Chapter 149, Section 66
  A person shall not employ a child or permit a child to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation before 6:00...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Days and hours of work for boys or girls under eighteen - Chapter 149, Section 67
  Except as limited by section fifty-six, no person shall employ a boy or a girl under eighteen or permit such a boy or girl to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time for work of minor messengers - Chapter 149, Section 68
  Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Children as newspaper vendors; restrictions; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 69
  No boy or girl under twelve shall sell, expose or offer for sale any magazines, periodicals or any other articles of merchandise of any description,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors under sixteen as vendors and bootblacks, scavengers or other trade in street or public places; charge for badge for employment - Chapter 149, Section 70
  No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage or be employed in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine unless such boy...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of badges to minors; proof of age; grounds for refusal to issue - Chapter 149, Section 71
  Such badge shall not be issued until the officer issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed evidence that such boy or girl...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Badges; wearing; transfer; exhibition; regulations for issuing - Chapter 149, Section 72
  The badge shall be worn, conspicuously exposed at all times, by such boy or girl while so working. No boy or girl to whom said...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time for work of minors under sixteen engaged as vendors, bootblacks, scavengers or in any other trade in streets or public places - Chapter 149, Section 73
  No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine in any street or public place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of notice of hours of work of minor; employment at other times; changing terms - Chapter 149, Section 74
  Except as provided in section fifty-six, every person employing any minor in any establishment mentioned in section sixty shall keep posted in a conspicuous place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forms of notice furnished by attorney general - Chapter 149, Section 75
  The attorney general, shall, upon application, furnish the printed forms of the lists and notices required by sections fifty-six and seventy-four to all persons required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors; duties; prosecutions - Chapter 149, Section 76
  Inspectors shall visit and inspect the places of employment mentioned in sections sixty to sixty-eight, inclusive, and shall ascertain whether any minors are employed therein...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of statutes; supervisors of attendance; appointment; powers - Chapter 149, Section 77
  Sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, relating to minors engaged in the occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine, shall be enforced by supervisors of attendance, who are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of, and permitting work by, minors contrary to statutes; reports of violations - Chapter 149, Section 78
  Whoever, by himself or for others, or through agents, servants or foremen, employs, induces or permits any minor to work contrary to sections 60 to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written warnings and civil citations; appeal; penalties; criminal complaint - Chapter 149, Section 78A
  (a) As an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings to enforce any violation of sections 56 to 105, inclusive, or a violation of this chapter for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hindering inspectors, supervisors of attendance or department representatives; refusal of admittance or to give information - Chapter 149, Section 79
  Any person who hinders or delays any authorized inspector or supervisor of attendance in the performance of his duties, or who refuses to admit to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Furnishing minors with articles for sale in, and encouragement of, violation of statutes - Chapter 149, Section 80
  Whoever furnishes or sells to any minor any article of any description with the knowledge that the minor intends to sell such article in violation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compelling or permitting minor to work in violation of statute; certification of false statement - Chapter 149, Section 81
  Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor under his control who compels or permits such minor to work in violation of any provision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes by persons issuing badges or enforcing statutes - Chapter 149, Section 82
  Any inspector, supervisor of attendance, superintendent of schools or other person authorized to issue the badges required by section seventy, or any other person charged...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes by minors; revocation of badge; refusal to surrender; working after revocation - Chapter 149, Section 83
  Any minor who engages in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine in violation of any provision of sections sixty-nine, seventy or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of summons or warrants - Chapter 149, Section 84
  A summons or warrant issued by any court or trial justice having jurisdiction of the violation of any provision of sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of statutes - Chapter 149, Section 85
  Sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to the juvenile reformatories, other than the Massachusetts reformatory, or prevent minors of any age from receiving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of children with permit; particular employments; filing, accessibility and return of, and failure to return, permit; list of employed children - Chapter 149, Section 86
  A person shall not employ a child, other than a child over the age of 14 granted an employment permit by the superintendent of schools...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment permits in general; approval; return of evidence of age; certificate by town clerk; notice of child’s violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 87
  An employment permit shall be issued only by the superintendent of schools or by a person authorized by him in writing, or, where there is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School record for employment permit; educational qualification; necessary school attendance - Chapter 149, Section 88
  The school record required by section eighty-seven shall be filled out and signed by the principal or teacher in charge of the school which the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment permits; contents; signatures; fee; duplicate; records; papers furnished by department; explanatory matter - Chapter 149, Section 89
  The employment permit required under this chapter shall state the name, sex, date and place of birth and the place of residence of the child,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statute; forged evidence of age or birth; certification of false statements in, and alteration of, permit - Chapter 149, Section 90
  Whoever employs a child under sixteen, or whoever procures, or, having under his control a child under sixteen, permits him to be employed in violation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cessation of employment for non-attendance of continuation school; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 91
  The employer of any minor between fourteen and sixteen who is required by section twenty-two of chapter seventy-one to attend a continuation school or course...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Visiting to ascertain employment of children; reporting illegal employment; complaint; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 92
  Supervisors of attendance may visit the factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments, theatres, and places of public exhibition in their several towns, and ascertain...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment contrary to statute; taking minor to school; reporting evidence to court or justice; complaint; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 93
  A supervisor of attendance shall apprehend and take to school, without a warrant, any minor employed in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment permits, educational certificates and lists of employed minors produced for inspection; evidence of illegal employment - Chapter 149, Section 94
  Supervisors of attendance, representatives of the office of the attorney general, agents of the department of education or of the department of labor, or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors 16 years or older who have not completed requirements for sixth grade; attendance at school - Chapter 149, Section 95
  If a minor 16 years of age or older fails to meet the requirements for the completion of the sixth grade, a person shall not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Educational certificates; exceptions - Chapter 149, Section 95A
  A school committee of any city, town or regional school district which accepts the provisions of this section may permit a minor over sixteen and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manual training and industrial education; effect of statutes - Chapter 149, Section 96
  Sections eighty-six to ninety-five, inclusive, shall not prevent children of any age from receiving manual training or industrial education in or in connection with any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2006, 426, Sec. 17 - Chapter 149, Section 97 98
  Repealed, 2006, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 372, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 99
  Repealed, 1974, 372, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours of work without interval for meal; duration; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 100
  No person shall be required to work for more than six hours during a calendar day without an interval of at least thirty minutes for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of statute relating to mealtimes and intervals for meals - Chapter 149, Section 101
  The preceding section shall not apply to iron works, glass works, paper mills, letterpress establishments, print works, bleaching works, or dyeing works; and the attorney...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labor during mealtime without knowledge of employer - Chapter 149, Section 102
  If a minor shall, without the orders, consent or knowledge of the employer or of the superintendent, overseer or other agent of the employer, labor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seats for employees; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 103
  Employers shall provide suitable seats for the use of their employees and shall permit such employees to use such seats whenever they are not necessarily...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Children participants in public exhibitions; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 104
  No person shall employ a child under fifteen years of age, or permit him to appear as a participant in a theater, circus or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 364, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 104A
  Repealed, 1982, 364, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - License for theatrical exhibitions or shows in which children are employed - Chapter 149, Section 105
  A license shall not be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen are employed as acrobats or contortionists or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination forbidden; damages; actions in general; assignment of claim; limitations - Chapter 149, Section 105A
  No employer shall discriminate in any way in the payment of wages as between the sexes, or pay any person in his employ salary or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes; discharge or discrimination because of complaint, proceedings or testimony - Chapter 149, Section 105B
  Any employer who violates any provision of sections one hundred and five A to one hundred and five C, inclusive, or who discharges or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry of premises, and investigation to determine compliance with statute - Chapter 149, Section 105C
  For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of sections one hundred and five A to one hundred and five C, inclusive, the attorney general, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entitlement of female employees; rights and benefits - Chapter 149, Section 105D
  A female employee who has completed the initial probationary period set by the terms of her employment or, if there is no such probationary period,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Drinking water; violation of statute; coverage of term “industrial establishments” - Chapter 149, Section 106
  All industrial establishments and every person engaged in carrying on a construction project shall provide fresh and pure drinking water to which their employees shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water for humidifying purposes; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 107
  The water used for humidifying purposes by any person operating a factory or workshop shall be of such a degree of purity as not to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Thermometers for humidity and temperature; regulations; place; reading; record - Chapter 149, Section 108
  In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is introduced for humidifying purposes there shall be provided, maintained and kept in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of statute relating to thermometers; hygrometers; psychrometers; records - Chapter 149, Section 109
  The preceding section shall not apply to textile factories equipped with such a number and type of standardized self-registering hygrometers, or psychrometers, or such a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Relative humidity limits - Chapter 149, Section 110
  No owner, occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of a textile factory shall permit the relative humidity in a weaving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sources of water for humidifying purposes; clean air ducts - Chapter 149, Section 111
  Water used for humidifying purposes in a textile factory shall be taken either from a public supply of drinking water, or from some other source...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply with statutes after request - Chapter 149, Section 112
  Whoever fails to comply with any provision of sections one hundred and eight to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, after being requested so to do...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Light, ventilation, cleanliness, sanitation and heat in establishments - Chapter 149, Section 113
  Every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment, railroad freight house, railway express terminal, public garages and premises used by express, trucking and transportation companies...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations and suggestions relative to eyes and vision - Chapter 149, Section 114
  The industrial health inspectors shall, when obtaining information concerning the proper lighting of industrial establishments, make such investigation concerning the eye and vision in their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Devices and means to prevent injury to eyes; order; compliance; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 115
  If it appears to an inspector that in any industrial establishment, from the nature of the work or the machinery used in connection therewith, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations as to light; notice to change; failure to comply with order - Chapter 149, Section 116
  Upon the request of any inspector of the division of inspection of the department of public safety or upon the request of any five employees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ventilation - Chapter 149, Section 117
  Every establishment in which one or more persons is employed shall be so ventilated that all gases, vapors, dust, fumes, or any impurity injurious to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Means to diminish inhalation of dust - Chapter 149, Section 118
  If, in any place of employment, any process is carried on by which dust is caused which may be inhaled to an injurious extent by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hoods or hoppers and suction pipes for emery or buffing wheels or belts - Chapter 149, Section 119
  Any person operating a factory or workshop where emery wheels or belts or buffing wheels or belts injurious to the health of employees are used...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form and place of hoods or hoppers; size and speed of blowers; approval by attorney general - Chapter 149, Section 120
  Every such wheel shall be fitted with a hood or hopper of such form and so placed that the particles or dust produced by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of statutes relating to emery and buffing machinery - Chapter 149, Section 121
  The two preceding sections shall not apply to grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, nor to solid emery...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes relating to ventilation, dust and emery and buffing machinery - Chapter 149, Section 122
  Violations of sections one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and twenty-one, inclusive, shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections relative to apparatus for emery and buffing machinery; complaint; prosecution - Chapter 149, Section 123
  Inspectors, upon receipt of a notice signed by any person having knowledge of the facts that any factory or workshop subject to sections one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Communication between engineer’s room and machinery room - Chapter 149, Section 124
  In every manufacturing establishment where the machinery is operated by steam, communication shall be provided between each room where such machinery is placed and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statute relating to communication - Chapter 149, Section 125
  An occupant or manager of a manufacturing establishment who violates the preceding section shall forfeit to the commonwealth not less than one hundred nor more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fastening doors during business hours; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 126
  No inside or outside door of any building subject to the supervision of the attorney general which, under the provisions of the state building code,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guards for, and cleaning of, machinery; disconnection and removal of safety devices - Chapter 149, Section 127
  The belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable parts in all factories, workshops, mechanical and mercantile establishments, if so placed as to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Traversing carriage of a self-acting mule traveling close to fixed structure - Chapter 149, Section 128
  The owner of a cotton factory erected after May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in which there is any traversing carriage of a self-acting mule...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Safeguards for hoistways, hatchways and well holes; closing trapdoors - Chapter 149, Section 129
  The openings of hoistways, hatchways and well holes upon every floor of an industrial establishment shall be protected by sufficient trap doors or self-closing hatches,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shoring trenches for local governments; graves excepted - Chapter 149, Section 129A
  On any construction project carried on by any city, town, county or other subdivision of the commonwealth in which a trench is to be dug...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stilts; penalty for requiring or knowingly permitting use in construction - Chapter 149, Section 129B
  Whoever, being engaged in construction work, requires or knowingly permits any person employed by him in such work to use certain devices, commonly called stilts,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Installation or repair of live electric wires or electrical equipment; assistance; safety equipment; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 129C
  Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting electricity or installing or repairing live wires or electrical equipment knowingly permits a journeyman or first class...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Riding in man-basket carried by hoisting machinery for bungee jumping or other safety approved activity - Chapter 149, Section 129D
  No person shall be prohibited from riding in a department of public safety approved man-basket, so-called, carried by any hoisting machinery for the purpose of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Explosives or inflammable materials; storage and use near egress - Chapter 149, Section 130
  Explosive or inflammable compounds or materials shall not be so stored or used in any place of employment as to obstruct or render hazardous the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guards for loom shuttles; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 131
  Any person owning, managing or operating a factory where looms are used shall equip them with such guards or other devices as will prevent injury...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suction shuttles; shuttle or thread touching lips; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 132
  No proprietor of a factory nor any officer or agent or other person shall require or permit the use of suction shuttles, or any form...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water closets, toilets and washing facilities; regulations; definitions of “industrial establishments” and “railroad establishments” - Chapter 149, Section 133
  In every industrial establishment and railroad establishment there shall be provided suitable, adequate and convenient water closets and washing facilities, separate for each sex and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Necessary changes; action for proportion of expense - Chapter 149, Section 134
  The owner, lessee or occupant of every such establishment shall make the changes necessary to conform thereto. If such changes are made upon the order...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prosecutions; necessity of neglect to make changes; notice; liability of corporate officer - Chapter 149, Section 135
  A criminal prosecution shall not be begun against a person for a violation of any provision of sections one hundred and thirty-three or one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of public health laws; notice to town board of health; enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 136
  If it appears to an inspector that any act, neglect or fault in relation to any drain, water closet, earth closet, privy, ash pit, water...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foundry toilet rooms and water closets; failure to comply with statute - Chapter 149, Section 137
  The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, brass, steel or other metal, and employing ten or more persons, shall establish and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injuring toilet appliances - Chapter 149, Section 138
  Whoever wilfully destroys, defaces, injures or defiles any toilet appliances provided in any place of employment shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lockers and clothes receptacles of employees; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 139
  In any mercantile or manufacturing establishment or hotel or railroad where the nature of the work renders it necessary for any or all employees, before...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1953, 57 - Chapter 149, Section 140
  Repealed, 1953,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical and surgical chests; accommodations for treatment of injured or ill persons; facilities for heating food; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 141
  Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical establishment where machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lifting heavy objects in textile factories - Chapter 149, Section 141A
  No person or persons employed in a textile factory, whose principal employment is the tending or repairing of machinery, shall be required to lift by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sanitary material for cleaning printing presses - Chapter 149, Section 142
  All publishers and printers shall use a sanitary cloth or other sanitary material in cleaning their presses.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marked receptacles for substances hazardous to health - Chapter 149, Section 142A
  No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marked receptacles for materials containing substances hazardous to health - Chapter 149, Section 142B
  No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Markings; clear and conspicuous; size; place - Chapter 149, Section 142C
  The words and any warning required by sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B shall be clear and conspicuous, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receptacles exempt from marking requirements - Chapter 149, Section 142D
  The director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health acting jointly may, by reasonable rules and regulations, exempt from the provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports concerning material hazardous to health - Chapter 149, Section 142E
  For the protection of persons exposed to possible injury by any material or substance which in the joint opinion of the departments of labor and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes and regulations; failure to mark receptacles; removal or defacement of marks - Chapter 149, Section 142F
  Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and forty-two A, one hundred and forty-two B or one hundred and forty-two C, or any rule...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of statutes and regulations - Chapter 149, Section 142G
  The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred and forty-two F, inclusive, and the rules and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 149, 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 to one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection from undue competition and of health and well-being of workers - Chapter 149, Section 143A
  Protection of factory industries from undue competition and protection of the health and well-being of the workers is a matter which concerns the general welfare...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful industrial homework - Chapter 149, Section 144
  The manufacture of or work upon any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit issued under section one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of industries; order declaring industrial homework unlawful - Chapter 149, Section 145
  The attorney general may make or cause to be made an investigation of any industry which employs industrial homeworkers, in order to determine whether the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing preceding order; notice; place; effective date of order - Chapter 149, Section 146
  Before making such order the attorney general shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution of materials and articles; necessity of place of employment in commonwealth - Chapter 149, Section 146A
  The employer shall, wherever industrial homework is permitted, distribute directly to his homeworkers all material and articles of homework. No employer shall give out any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employer’s permit; person to whom materials or articles may be delivered; effect of strike; payment of fees into treasury - Chapter 149, Section 147
  No materials for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework shall be delivered to any person in the commonwealth unless the employer so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Homeworker’s certificate; place of work; work performed by others; qualifications of applicant and home; strike against employer - Chapter 149, Section 147A
  No person shall engage in industrial homework within the commonwealth unless he has in his possession a valid certificate issued to him by the attorney...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employer’s name and address affixed to articles or container of goods delivered for homework - Chapter 149, Section 147B
  No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon by industrial homework...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work in violation of statutes; removal, retention and disposition of articles; notice - Chapter 149, Section 147C
  Any article which is being manufactured or worked upon in a home in violation of any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of homeworkers and work - Chapter 149, Section 147D
  No person in possession of an employer’s permit shall deliver or receive, or cause to be delivered or received, any articles for or as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; violations; inspections and investigations - Chapter 149, Section 147E
  The attorney general shall make rules and regulations for the enforcement of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of witnesses and production of books and papers; summons and court order; fees; oaths; depositions - Chapter 149, Section 147F
  In making any investigation or examination under authority of any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional penalties - Chapter 149, Section 147G
  In addition to any penalties otherwise prescribed in sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, any employer or his agent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Educational and philanthropic organizations; homework performed under supervision of commission for the blind - Chapter 149, Section 147H
  The provisions of sections one hundred and forty-three to one hundred and forty-seven G, inclusive, shall not apply to organizations incorporated in the commonwealth for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of wages; commissions; exemption by contract; persons deemed employers; provision for cashing check or draft; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 148
  Every person having employees in his service shall pay weekly or bi-weekly each such employee the wages earned by him to within six days of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees seeking rights under provisions of this chapter; discharge or discrimination; punishment - Chapter 149, Section 148A
  No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of any action on the part of an employee to seek...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons performing service not authorized under this chapter deemed employees; exception - Chapter 149, Section 148B
  (a) For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 151, an individual performing any service, except as authorized under this chapter, shall be considered to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summons and warrant for violations of Sec. 148 - Chapter 149, Section 149
  A justice or clerk of a district court, or a trial justice, may upon the application of any employee issue a summons to an employer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaint for violation of certain sections; defenses; payment after complaint; assignments; loan of wages to employer; civil action - Chapter 149, Section 150
  The attorney general may make complaint or seek indictment against any person for a violation of section 148. On the trial no defence for failure...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of deductions - Chapter 149, Section 150A
  Every person making a deduction from wages of any employee for social security, unemployment compensation benefits, pension, vacation or health and welfare funds, state taxes,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees or assessments other than those chargeable under union constitution and by-laws - Chapter 149, Section 150B
  No labor union, or person acting in its behalf, shall require any person, as a condition of securing or continuing employment, to pay any fee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages; penalties - Chapter 149, Section 150C
  Any person having employees in his service who withholds or deducts wages from employees for the purpose of purchasing or contributing toward the purchase of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment on pay day before close of working hours - Chapter 149, Section 151
  Persons carrying on any manufacturing business employing one hundred or more persons shall, on the day chosen as pay day, pay such of their employees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deductions for coming late to work - Chapter 149, Section 152
  There shall not be deducted from the wages of an employee in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or from the wages of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service charges and tips; tip pools; penalties - Chapter 149, Section 152A
  (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grading work of weavers; imperfections affecting wages; conditions precedent to fines - Chapter 149, Section 153
  No system used by manufacturers for grading the work of a weaver shall affect or lessen the wages of the weaver except for imperfections in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employer’s fine upon weaver for imperfections; violations of statutes - Chapter 149, Section 154
  No employer shall impose a fine upon an employee engaged at weaving for imperfections arising during the process of weaving. Whoever violates this or the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Specifications as to work and wages for weavers, frame tenders, warpers, web drawers and operatives paid by the pound - Chapter 149, Section 155
  The occupier or manager of every cotton factory shall supply to each person engaged as a weaver in said factory and paid by the piece,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Specifications and tickets; posting and attaching; contents; pick clocks; excess of maximum lengths; violation of statute - Chapter 149, Section 156
  The occupier or manager of every textile factory shall post in every room where any employees work by the job, in legible writing or printing,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of Sec. 155; interference with inspectors - Chapter 149, Section 157
  Violation of any provision of section one hundred and fifty-five shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees paid by piece; tickets stating basis of remuneration; posting statement of amount of pay earned - Chapter 149, Section 157A
  Every person operating a factory or workshop shall supply to each employee therein who is paid by the piece, either at the time when such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stopped machinery; deductions from wages; making up lost time; penalty - Chapter 149, Section 158
  Deductions shall not be made from the wages of persons paid by the day or hour, and employed in the manufacturing or mechanical establishments, while...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work without compensation - Chapter 149, Section 158A
  Whoever requires or permits any person, as a condition of securing employment, to work in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment without monetary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of employee without notice - Chapter 149, Section 159
  A person engaged in manufacturing who requires from his employees, under penalty or forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by them, a notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2004, 125, Sec. 14 - Chapter 149, Section 159A
  Repealed, 2004, 125, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of expenses for medical examinations - Chapter 149, Section 159B
  Any employer who requests or requires a person who is a present or prospective employee to undergo a medical examination by a physician designated by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Staffing agencies; notice of information concerning employee’s assignment; fees prohibited; transportation services; prohibited activities by staffing - Chapter 149, Section 159C
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Department”, the department of labor standards. “Employee”, a person employed directly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2011, 3, Sec. 131 - Chapter 149, Section 160 to 168A
  Repealed, 2011, 3, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 250 - Chapter 149, Section 169 to 172
  Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or sale of records and papers - Chapter 149, Section 173
  The commissioner, having first obtained authority from the governor and council, may destroy or sell all such records, papers and schedules accumulated in the department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1929, 357, Sec. 2 - Chapter 149, Section 174
  Repealed, 1929, 357, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bells, whistles and gongs - Chapter 149, Section 175
  Manufacturers and others employing workmen may, for the purpose of giving notice to them, ring bells and use whistles and gongs of such size and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Non-resident as special police officer - Chapter 149, Section 176
  If, in an emergency, special police officers are appointed, under the name of police officers or any other name, to act as police officers for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police assistance in protecting property; non-residents assisting with arms; liability in damages - Chapter 149, Section 177
  A person may, if his property is in danger, call upon the regular police authorities in the commonwealth for assistance in its protection, and this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract exempting employer from liability to employee - Chapter 149, Section 177A
  No person shall, by a special contract with his employees, exempt himself from liability which he may be under to them for injuries suffered by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians; responding to emergencies; discharge from other employment - Chapter 149, Section 177B
  No employer shall discharge or take any other disciplinary action against any employee by reason of failure of such employee to report for work at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leave of absence from work for voting - Chapter 149, Section 178
  No owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment shall employ or permit to be employed therein any person entitled to vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of wages of intestate employee; officer or employee of commonwealth or subdivision - Chapter 149, Section 178A
  Wages or salary not in excess of one hundred dollars, due an employee who dies intestate, may be paid by the employer if thirty days...
• Massachusetts General Laws - 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 - Chapter 149, Section 178B
  The state treasurer, the treasurer of any county, the treasurer of any state institution and the treasurer of any city or town having a by-law...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sum owed estate of officer or employee of political subdivisions paid to husband, widow or next of kin - Chapter 149, Section 178C
  Whenever any officer or employee or former officer or employee of a political subdivision of the commonwealth other than a county, city or town, dies,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 178D
  Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Group insurance; disposition of dividends - Chapter 149, Section 178E
  If a dividend is declared or a reduction in rate is made under any group insurance policy, the excess, if any, of the aggregate dividends...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec. 1 - Chapter 149, Section 178F to 178N
  Repealed, 1973, 1078, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Group insurance termination; notice of date to employee - Chapter 149, Section 178O
  An employer terminating employment of an employee insured under a group insurance policy shall, within ten business days, notify said employee of the date upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Placards posted to inform employees - Chapter 149, Section 179
  The department may require employers to post in conspicuous positions in any place of employment such placards, posters or signs for the information of employees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preference to citizens in awarding public work contracts; violations - Chapter 149, Section 179A
  In the awarding of contracts for public work by the commonwealth or by a county, city or town or by persons contracting therewith to do...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to commissioner of commencement or change of location of business; violations - Chapter 149, Section 179B
  The owner of every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishment or industry in which twelve or more persons are employed shall, upon the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collective bargaining agreements; successor clauses - Chapter 149, Section 179C
  Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization as defined in subsection (5) of section two of chapter one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of chapter provisions with no specific penalty - Chapter 149, Section 180
  Whoever violates a provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is provided shall be punished by a fine of not more than five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of closing laws - Chapter 149, Section 180A
  Whoever violates any provisions of the second paragraph of clause (50) of section six or the second paragraph of section thirteen of chapter one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement or health and welfare funds; failure of employer to make payments - Chapter 149, Section 181
  It shall be unlawful for any employer who has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor organization or association of employees providing for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards of corporate behavior; companies financed with assistance of quasi-public agencies - Chapter 149, Section 182
  Any person utilizing financing issued, insured, or subsidized by a quasi-public agency of the commonwealth shall agree to accept the following voluntary standards of corporate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severance pay upon termination following transfer of control of employer; definitions - Chapter 149, Section 183
  (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— “Control”, the beneficial ownership of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severance pay following transfer of control or attempted transfer of control of registered corporation; definitions - Chapter 149, Section 184
  (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings: “Control transferor”, the person or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retaliation against employees reporting violations of law or risks to public health, safety or environment; remedies - Chapter 149, Section 185
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— (1) “Employee”, any individual who performs services for and under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Broadcasting industry; noncompete agreements - Chapter 149, Section 186
  Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of employment for an employee or individual in the broadcasting industry, including, television stations, television...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health care providers; protection from retaliatory action by health care facilities - Chapter 149, Section 187
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Health care facility”, an individual, partnership, association, corporation or trust or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fair share employer contribution - Chapter 149, Section 188
  [ Text of section effective until July 1, 2013. Repealed by 2013, 38, Sec. 108. See 2013, 38, Sec. 219.](a) As used in this section,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employer medical assistance contribution - Chapter 149, Section 189
  [ Subsection (a) effective until March 24, 2015. For text effective March 24, 2015, see below.] (a) Each employer, subject to sections 14, 14A and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rights relating to pay and other terms or conditions of employment for domestic workers - Chapter 149, Section 190
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 148, Sec. 3 effective April 1, 2015. See 2014, 148, Sec. 12.] (a) As used in this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conduct constituting unlawful discriminatory practice against domestic workers; enforcement - Chapter 149, Section 191
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 148, Sec. 3 effective April 1, 2015. See 2014, 148, Sec. 12.] (a) It shall be an unlawful...

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