General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 150A Labor Relations
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public policy - Chapter 150A, Section 1
The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 150A, Section 2
When used in this chapter— (1) The term “person” includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of employees - Chapter 150A, Section 3
Employees, or a single employee in a one-man unit, shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic service employee defined; violations; discharge; presumption; damages; costs - Chapter 150A, Section 3A
Anything contained in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding as regards sections one, two, three, four (1), four (4), ten, eleven and twelve, the term...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unfair labor practices by employers - Chapter 150A, Section 4
It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer— (1) To interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unfair labor practices by individuals or labor organizations - Chapter 150A, Section 4A
It shall be an unfair labor practice for any person or labor organization— (1) To seize or occupy unlawfully private property as a means of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to bargain collectively with employer - Chapter 150A, Section 4B
It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization to refuse to bargain collectively with any employer who has recognized it as the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Health care facilities; unfair labor practices by employers or employees - Chapter 150A, Section 4C
It shall be an unfair labor practice:— (1) For any health care facility or any charitable home for the aged to institute, declare or cause,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Representatives; determining and certifying; grievances; units; review; proceedings to enforce or review orders - Chapter 150A, Section 5
(a) Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, including...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agricultural workers; representatives - Chapter 150A, Section 5A
In the case of a person engaged in agriculture, as hereinafter defined, and having a permanent hired work force of more than four agricultural workers...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention of unfair labor practices; powers of commission; proceedings; judicial review - Chapter 150A, Section 6
(a) The commission is empowered, as hereinafter provided, to prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice listed in sections four, four A,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Denial of admission to, and suspension or expulsion from, a labor organization; proceedings for relief; voting rights of non-participants in insurance plans and of local organizations in conventions - Chapter 150A, Section 6A
Any employee who is required as a condition of employment to be a member in good standing of a labor organization may file with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of order of commission - Chapter 150A, Section 6B
Any person aggrieved by a final order of the commission under section six A granting or denying relief, may obtain a review of such order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of dues and assessments during disciplinary and legal proceedings - Chapter 150A, Section 6C
During any disciplinary proceedings within a labor organization or any proceedings under sections six A and six B, or either of them, the employee shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commission and courts relative to hearings and investigations; self-incrimination; service of papers; witness fees; papers and information furnished by other departments - Chapter 150A, Section 7
For the purpose of all hearings and investigations which, in the opinion of the commission, are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with member or agent of commission - Chapter 150A, Section 8
Any person who shall wilfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the commission or any of its agents or agencies in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right to strike - Chapter 150A, Section 9
Nothing in this chapter, except as provided in sections four A and four C, shall be construed so as to interfere with or impede or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Grievances or disputes between health care facilities and nurses - Chapter 150A, Section 9A
(a) In the event of the existence of a grievance or a dispute between a health care facility or a charitable home for the aged...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conflict of laws; federal statutes and regulations - Chapter 150A, Section 10
(a) Wherever the application of the provisions of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of the provisions of this chapter, this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 150A, Section 11
If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Title of statute - Chapter 150A, Section 12
This chapter may be cited as the “State Labor Relations Law”.
Last modified: September 11, 2015