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RI Gen L § 28-10-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-10 - Labor Disputes|Section 28-10-14 - Penalty for violations.

§ 28-10-14. Penalty for violations.Any person, partnership, agency, firm, or corporation violating §§ 28-10-11, 28-10-13, or 28-10-13.1 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each person recruited, supplied, procured, referred, or employed, or to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.History of Section.P.L. 1963, ch. 200, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 10, § 2; P.L. 1988, ch. 545, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 323, § 6.
RI Gen L § 28-11-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11 - Hours of Employment|Section 28-11-1 - Standard day's work.

§ 28-11-1. Standard day's work.Except as otherwise provided by law, labor performed in any manufacturing establishment, and all mechanical labor, during the period of ten (10) hours in any one day, shall be considered a legal day's work, unless otherwise agreed by the parties to the contract for the labor.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 85, § 37; P.L. 1928, ch. 1231, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 285, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 285, § 15; P.L. 1943, ch. 1313, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-11-1.
RI Gen L § 28-11-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11 - Hours of Employment|Section 28-11-2 - Day's work for street railway employees.

§ 28-11-2. Day's work for street railway employees.A day's work for all conductors and operators now employed, or who may subsequently be employed, in the operation of all street railways of whatever motive power in this state shall not exceed ten (10) hours work, to be performed within twelve (12) consecutive hours. No officer or agent of any corporation operating streetcars of whatever motive power in this state shall on any day exact from any of its employees more than ten (10) hours work within the twenty-four (24) hours of the natural day, and within twelve (12) consecutive hours; provided, that on all legal holidays, and on occasions when an unexpected contingency arises, demanding more than the usual service by the street railway corporation to the public, or from the employees to the corporation, and in case of accident or unavoidable delay, extra labor may be performed for extra compensation.History of Section.P.L. 1902, ch. 1004, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 218, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 252, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 286, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-11-2.
RI Gen L § 28-11-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11 - Hours of Employment|Section 28-11-3 - Contracts varying length of day on street railways.

§ 28-11-3. Contracts varying length of day on street railways.The true intent and purpose of §§ 28-11-2 — 28-11-4 is declared to be to limit the usual hours of labor of the conductor and operator employees of street railway corporations, in the absence of agreement as to hours between the employees and their employer, to ten (10) hours actual work a day, to be performed within a period of twelve (12) consecutive hours, whether the employees are employed by the trip or trips, the job, the hour, the day, the week, the month or in any other manner. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to forbid or prevent any employee, being eighteen (18) years of age or upwards, from laboring a greater or lesser number of hours a day in accordance with his or her contract to do so, nor to impose any penalty upon any person or corporation for permitting these employees to labor a greater or lesser number of hours in the performance of the contract.History of Section.P.L. 1902, ch. 1004, § 2; P.L. 1902, ch. 1045, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 218, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 252, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 286, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-11-3.
RI Gen L § 28-11-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11 - Hours of Employment|Section 28-11-4 - Penalty for violations by street railways.

§ 28-11-4. Penalty for violations by street railways.Any street railway corporation violating any of the provisions of §§ 28-11-2 and 28-11-3 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), one-half (½) of that amount to the use of the complainant and the other one-half (½) to the use of the state.History of Section.P.L. 1902, ch. 1004, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 218, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 252, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 286, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 28-11-4.
RI Gen L § 28-11.1-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11.1 - Part-Time Elected Officials|Section 28-11.1-1 - Statement of policy.

§ 28-11.1-1. Statement of policy.(a) The public interest requires that persons engaged in all lawful types of employment be encouraged to serve as elected members of part-time elected bodies. To facilitate this encouragement, it is necessary wherever practical for employers of part-time elected officials to provide flexible work schedules so that those employees serving as part-time elected officials might attend to the business of the people of the state of Rhode Island and its municipalities. The anticipated flexible work schedules shall be within the reasonable operation of the employer's business.(b) The public interest also requires that all part-time elected officials of elected bodies be free from undue influence or pressure by their employers as it relates to their decisions and relative to legislation which they might consider or introduce.(c) No employer shall be permitted to either directly or indirectly use any condition of the part-time elected official's employment as a means of influencing the legislator's vote on any legislation or introduction of his or her own legislation.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 138, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-11.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11.1 - Part-Time Elected Officials|Section 28-11.1-2 - Flexible work schedules.

§ 28-11.1-2. Flexible work schedules.Every employer of a part-time elected official of an elected body shall be required to provide the employee with a flexible work schedule to accommodate the employee's attendance at the sessions necessary for the part-time elected officials of elected bodies wherever practical within the reasonable operation of the employer's business. An employer shall not be in violation of this provision if the employer cannot reasonably provide alternate work hours for an employee or if the service of the elected official would necessitate the hiring of additional or replacement employees. All disputes concerning compliance with this section shall be resolved under the provisions of chapter 10 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 138, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-11.1-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11.1 - Part-Time Elected Officials|Section 28-11.1-3 - Undue influence.

§ 28-11.1-3. Undue influence.(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer of a part-time elected official of an elected body to:(1) Fire or threaten to fire the employee based upon his or her activities or decisions as a part-time elected official of an elected body;(2) Attempt to influence the employee to introduce legislation or vote on any legislation through job discrimination, compensation, or adverse job action;(3) Discriminate against an employee in any area of his or her employment because of his or her legislative activities, votes, or business.(b) All violations of this section shall be referred to the director of the department of labor and training and, if not resolved, shall be referred to the department of the attorney general for prosecution. Any person, firm, or corporation convicted of a violation of this section shall be subject to a fine up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) or up to one year in jail, or both.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 138, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-11.1-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-11.1 - Part-Time Elected Officials|Section 28-11.1-4 - Exemptions.

§ 28-11.1-4. Exemptions.This chapter shall not apply to any city or town where the holding of public office would violate state or federal law or would violate the charter of the city or town.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 138, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 357, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-1 - Short title.

§ 28-12-1. Short title.This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Rhode Island Minimum Wage Act."History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 18; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-2 - Definitions.

§ 28-12-2. Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Advisory board" means a board created as provided in § 28-12-6;(2) "Commissioner" means the minimum-wage commissioner appointed by the director of labor and training as chief of the division of labor standards;(3) "Director" means the director of labor and training, or his or her duly authorized representative;(4) "Employ" means to suffer or to permit to work;(5) "Employee" includes any individual suffered or permitted to work by an employer;(6) "Employee" shall not include:(i) Any individual employed in domestic service or in or about a private home;(ii) Any individual employed by the United States;(iii) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, or where the services rendered to the organizations are on a voluntary basis;(iv) Newspaper deliverers on home delivery, shoe shiners in shoe shine establishments, caddies on golf courses, pin persons in bowling alleys, ushers in theatres;(v) Traveling salespersons or outside salespersons;(vi) Service performed by an individual in the employ of his or her son, daughter, or spouse and service performed by a child under the age of twenty-one (21) in the employ of his or her father or mother;(vii) Any individual employed between May 1 and October 1 in a resort establishment that regularly serves meals to the general public and that is open for business not more than six (6) months a year;(viii) Any individual employed by an organized camp that does not operate for more than seven (7) months in any calendar year. However, this exemption does not apply to individuals employed by the camp on an annual, full-time basis. "Organized camp" means any camp, except a trailer camp, having a structured program including, but not limited to, recreation, education, and religious, or any combination of these.(7) "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person, or group of persons, acting directly, or indirectly, in the interest of an employer, in relation to an employee;(8) "Occupation" means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully employed;(9) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his or her employment.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 1; P.L. 1956, ch. 3760, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-2; P.L. 1957, ch. 104, §§ 1, 4; P.L. 1962, ch. 105, § 1; P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 1; P.L. 1979, ch. 110, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 218, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 347, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 435, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 436, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-3 - Minimum wages.

§ 28-12-3. Minimum wages.(a) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees: commencing July 1, 1999, at least the minimum wage of five dollars and sixty-five cents ($5.65) per hour. Commencing September 1, 2000, the minimum wage is six dollars and fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour.(b) Commencing January 1, 2004, the minimum wage is six dollars and seventy-five cents ($6.75) per hour.(c) Commencing March 1, 2006, the minimum wage is seven dollars and ten cents ($7.10) per hour.(d) Commencing January 1, 2007, the minimum wage is seven dollars and forty cents ($7.40) per hour.(e) Commencing January 1, 2013, the minimum wage is seven dollars and seventy-five cents ($7.75) per hour.(f) Commencing January 1, 2014, the minimum wage is eight dollars ($8.00) per hour.(g) Commencing January 1, 2015, the minimum wage is nine dollars ($9.00) per hour.(h) Commencing January 1, 2016, the minimum wage is nine dollars and sixty cents ($9.60) per hour.(i) Commencing January 1, 2018, the minimum wage is ten dollars and ten cents ($10.10) per hour.(j) Commencing January 1, 2019, the minimum wage is ten dollars and fifty cents ($10.50) per hour.(k) Commencing October 1, 2020, the minimum wage is eleven dollars and fifty cents ($11.50) per hour.(l) Commencing January 1, 2022, the minimum wage is twelve dollars and twenty-five cents ($12.25) per hour. (m) Commencing January 1, 2023, the minimum wage is thirteen dollars ($13.00) per hour.(n) Commencing January 1, 2024, the minimum wage is fourteen dollars ($14.00) per hour.(o) Commencing January 1, 2025, the minimum wage is fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-3; P.L. 1957, ch. 104, § 2; P.L. 1962, ch 105, § 2; P.L. 1967, ch. 220, § 1; P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 2; P.L. 1979, ch. 68, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 315, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 256, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 409, §§ 1, 2; P.L. 1990, ch. 222, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 323, § 7; P.L. 1996, ch. 286, § 1; P.L. 1996, ch. 294, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 56, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 106, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 109, § 31; P.L. 2000, ch. 156, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 239, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 383, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 385, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 5, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 6, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 313, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 345, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 338, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 424, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 273, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 325, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 72, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 73, § 1; P.L. 2017, ch. 302, art. 14, § 1; P.L. 2020, ch. 3, § 1; P.L. 2020, ch. 4, § 1; P.L. 2021, ch. 15, § 1, effective May 20, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 16, § 1, effective May 20, 2021.
RI Gen L § 28-12-3.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-3.1 - Wages for minors.

§ 28-12-3.1. Wages for minors.Every minor, fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) years of age shall be paid at a rate of not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the minimum wages as specified in § 28-12-3; provided, every minor who works in excess of twenty-four (24) hours in any week shall be paid for all hours worked in that week at the hourly rate provided by § 28-12-3 or § 28-12-5(e).History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 3; P.L. 1979, ch. 68, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 315, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-3.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-3.2 - Wages for failure to furnish shift work.

§ 28-12-3.2. Wages for failure to furnish shift work.(a) An employer who requests or permits any employee to report for duty at the beginning of a work shift and does not furnish at least three (3) hours work on that shift shall pay the employee not less than three (3) times the regular hourly rate. Provided, however, that shifts scheduled for less than three (3) hours are permissible when entered into voluntarily and agreed upon by both the employer and employee. In the event that an employee reports for duty at the beginning of a work shift and the employer offers no work for him or her to perform, the employer shall pay the employee not less than three (3) times the regular hourly rate or the amount they would have earned for any shifts consisting of less than three (3) hours, as allowed under this section.(b) This section shall not apply to students enrolled full-time at colleges or universities located in this state who are also an employee of the college or university they attend, except as follows: a college or university that employs students and requests or permits a student employee to report for duty at the beginning of a work shift, the length of which has been mutually agreed to, and the employer does not furnish work for the student employee to perform, will pay the student for the number of hours of the agreed upon shift.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 3; P.L. 1981, ch. 411, § 1; P.L. 2004, ch. 6, § 32; P.L. 2019, ch. 293, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 305, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-4 - Repealed.

§ 28-12-4. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 16; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-4; Repealed by P.L. 1962, ch. 105, § 3.
RI Gen L § 28-12-4.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-4.1 - Overtime pay.

§ 28-12-4.1. Overtime pay.(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no employer shall employ any employee for a workweek longer than forty (40) hours unless the employee is compensated at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the regular rate at which he or she is employed for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours per week. Provided however, employers that pay any delivery drivers or sales merchandisers an overtime rate of compensation for hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week shall not calculate that overtime rate of compensation by fluctuating workweek method of overtime payment under 29 C.F.R. § 778.114.(b) In any workweek in which an employee of a retail business is employed on a Sunday or a holiday, or both, at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the regular rate at which he or she is employed as provided in § 5-23-2, the hours worked on the Sunday or holiday or both, shall be excluded from the calculation of overtime pay as required by this section.(c) No city, town, or fire district shall employ any "firefighter," as defined in § 28-9.1-3, excluding however civilian employees, for an average workweek longer than forty-two (42) hours unless the firefighter is compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1½) times his or her regular rate, for all hours worked in excess of forty-two (42) hours based upon an average workweek. An average workweek shall be calculated utilizing the prior consecutive eight week (8) period, based upon a seven-day (7) workweek. For the purposes of this section, "hours worked" shall include all paid leave.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 4; P.L. 1987, ch. 553, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 254, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 257, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 19, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 20, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-12-4.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-4.2 - Bi-weekly overtime pay.

§ 28-12-4.2. Bi-weekly overtime pay.Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no employer shall employ any employee on a bi-weekly basis with hours worked and hourly wages averaged over that period for longer than forty (40) hours per week unless the employee is compensated at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the regular rate at which he or she is employed for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours per week.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 4.
RI Gen L § 28-12-4.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-4.4 - Regulations.

§ 28-12-4.4. Regulations.The director of labor and training shall by regulations define and delimit the employees designated in § 28-12-4.3. Before any regulation is adopted, amended, or repealed, there shall be a public hearing on it at which all persons in favor of or opposed to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of the regulation may be heard. Notice of the public hearing shall be published at least once not less than twenty (20) days prior to the hearing in a newspaper or newspapers having aggregate general circulation throughout the state. A record shall be made of all proceedings at the public hearing.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 152, § 4.
RI Gen L § 28-12-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-6 - Occupational administrative regulations.

§ 28-12-6. Occupational administrative regulations.(a) For any occupation for which no wage order issued pursuant to chapter 289 of the general laws of 1938, as amended, was in effect on May 2, 1956, the director of labor and training, after consultation with an advisory board appointed by him or her and composed of one representative each of the employer and employees in the affected occupation and of one disinterested person representing the public, shall make any administrative regulations that he or she deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter or are necessary to prevent the circumvention or evasion of these purposes, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates established by this chapter.(b) The regulations may include, but are not limited to, regulations defining and delimiting the terms used in this chapter; outside salespersons or traveling salespersons; learners and apprentices, their number, proportion, and length of service. The regulations may also include provisions for special or extra pay for special, overtime, or extra work; no deductions shall be permitted for incentive commissions or bonuses earned by sales personnel.(c) Regulations issued by the director of labor and training pursuant to this section are effective only after publication and public hearing by the director of labor and training at which hearing any person may be heard.(d) Neither the director of labor and training, nor the commissioner of minimum wage, nor any advisory board set up under this chapter shall have any right, power, or authority to increase or decrease the minimum fair wage rates designated in § 28-12-3, nor to permit or authorize deductions to be made from the minimum fair wage rates, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-6.
RI Gen L § 28-12-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages|Section 28-12-7 - Revision of regulations.

§ 28-12-7. Revision of regulations.(a) The director of labor and training may, from time to time, propose modifications of or additions to any administrative regulations issued pursuant to § 28-12-6, or existing on May 2, 1956, in any mandatory wage order issued under the provisions of chapter 289 of the general laws of 1938, as amended.(b) Notice shall be given of a public hearing to be held by the director of labor and training not less than thirty (30) days after the publication at which all persons in favor of or opposed to the modifications or additions may be heard.(c) After the hearing, the director of labor and training may issue an order putting into effect the modifications of or additions to the administrative regulations as he or she deems appropriate; provided, that neither the director of labor and training, nor the commissioner of minimum wage, nor any advisory board set up under this chapter shall have any right, power, or authority to increase or decrease the minimum fair wage rates designated in § 28-12-3, nor to permit or authorize deductions to be made from the minimum fair wage rates, except as provided in this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-7.