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MA Gen L ch 151a § 71e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 71e - Reemployment Assistance Fund; Health Insurance Benefits Fund

Section 71E. There is hereby established a Reemployment Assistance Fund and a Health Insurance Benefits Fund which shall be administered by the commissioner, without liability on the part of the commonwealth beyond the amounts credited to and earned by the funds. Such funds shall consist of all moneys credited to the funds as provided in this section, less payments made therefrom in accordance with sections seventy-one F and seventy-one G. Moneys in the Reemployment Assistance Fund shall be pooled and available to pay reemployment assistance benefits under section seventy-one F and moneys in the health insurance benefits fund shall be pooled and available to pay health insurance benefits under section seventy-one G irrespective of the source of such moneys. Such funds may receive moneys from appropriations and any other revenue source that the general court may from time to time establish. Moneys in the funds shall not be commingled with moneys in the Unemployment Compensation Fund established by section forty-eight.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 71g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 71g - Eligibility for Health Insurance Benefits

Section 71G. (a) An employee eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits under section seventy-one F shall also be eligible to receive health insurance benefits during his or her eligibility period if (1) the individual was, at the time of termination covered by an individually purchased health insurance plan, and (2) the individual is not able to be covered under any health insurance plan carried by a member of the family.  For the purpose of this section, the eligibility period shall commence with the effective week of the claim for regular benefits and end at the completion of three calendar months, or the completion of the month during which reemployment was obtained, whichever is less. The payment of health insurance benefits shall terminate at the end of the month during which employment was obtained.  (b) The maximum health insurance benefits amount shall be the amount of the monthly insurance premium, but not to exceed three months. Such amount shall be paid in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the commissioner. In formulating said procedures and other regulations governing this section, the commissioner shall consult with the commissioner of insurance.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 71h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 71h - Plant Closing Employers; Bills for Reemployment Assistance Benefits

Section 71H. (a) At the end of each calendar month, or at the end of any other period as determined by the commissioner, the commissioner shall bill each certified plant closing employer or covered partial closing employer an amount equal to one hundred percent of the amount of reemployment assistance benefits paid under section seventy-one F, provided that eligibility for such benefits is attributable to service in the employ of such employer.  (b) Payment of any bill rendered under paragraph (a) shall be made not later than thirty days after the commissioner mails such bill to the last known address of the employer, unless not later than thirty days after the commissioner mails the bill, the employer files an application for review by the commissioner. The application shall set forth the grounds for such application. The grounds shall be limited to the identities of the individual and the employer and the amount to be charged. The commissioner shall review the application. Thereafter, notice of the commissioner's determination shall be mailed to the employer. This determination shall be final and not subject to any appeal.  (c) All payments received pursuant to this section shall be credited to the General Fund.  (d) Past due payments of amounts owed under this section shall be subject to the same interest and penalties that apply to past due contributions pursuant to section fifteen.  (e) Default in payment of amounts owed under this section by an employer shall not in any manner adversely affect the rights of an employee otherwise eligible for reemployment assistance benefits.  (f) Except where inconsistent with sections seventy-one A to seventy-one H, inclusive, the provisions of this chapter, including the provisions of section forty-seven, which apply to the collection of contributions or payments in lieu of contributions, shall apply to the same extent to the collection of amounts owed under this section; provided, however, that said amounts shall not be credited to the employer's account or the solvency account established pursuant to section fourteen or fourteen A.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 72 - Jurisdiction of Action to Enforce Statute; Entry Fee in Actions and Proceedings

Section 72. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have general jurisdiction of a civil action brought by the commissioner, to enforce any provisions of this chapter.  In civil actions and court proceedings under any provision of this chapter which are entered by or in behalf of the commissioner no entry fee shall be paid, but if the commissioner shall prevail the equivalent of such entry fee shall be taxed against the adverse party as costs.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 73 - Severability

Section 73. If any part, section or subdivision of this chapter, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or inoperative as to any particular person, persons or conditions, the remainder hereof, or the application of any such part, section or subdivision to other persons and conditions, shall not be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 74 - Title of Statute; Construction; Purpose

Section 74. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Law, and shall be construed liberally in aid of its purpose, which purpose is to lighten the burden which now falls on the unemployed worker and his family.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 2 - Policies; Recommendations

Section 2. The commission, as established by section fifty-six of chapter six, shall formulate policies to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and may make recommendations to agencies and officers of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions in aid of such policies and purposes.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 3a - Employers' Policies Against Sexual Harassment; Preparation of Model Policy; Education and Training Programs

Section 3A. (a) All employers, employment agencies and labor organizations shall promote a workplace free of sexual harassment.  (b) Every employer shall:  (1) adopt a policy against sexual harassment which shall include:  (i) a statement that sexual harassment in the workplace is unlawful;  (ii) a statement that it is unlawful to retaliate against an employee for filing a complaint of sexual harassment or for cooperating in an investigation of a complaint for sexual harassment;  (iii) a description and examples of sexual harassment;  (iv) a statement of the range of consequences for employees who are found to have committed sexual harassment;  (v) a description of the process for filing internal complaints about sexual harassment and the work addresses and telephone numbers of the person or persons to whom complaints should be made; and  (vi) the identity of the appropriate state and federal employment discrimination enforcement agencies, and directions as to how to contact such agencies.  (2) provide annually to all employees an individual written copy of the employer's policy against sexual harassment; provided, however, that a new employee shall be provided such a copy at the time of his employment.  (c) The commission shall prepare and provide to employers subject to this section a model policy and poster consistent with federal and state statutes and regulations, which may be used by employers for the purposes of this section.  (d) An employer's failure to provide the information required to be provided by this section shall not, in and of itself, result in the liability of said employer to any current or former employee or applicant in any action alleging sexual harassment. An employer's compliance with the notice requirements of this section shall not, in and of itself, protect the employer from liability for sexual harassment of any current or former employee or applicant.  (e) Employers and labor organizations are encouraged to conduct an education and training program for new employees and members, within one year of commencement of employment or membership, which includes at a minimum the information set forth in this section. Employers are encouraged to conduct additional training for new supervisory and managerial employees and members within one year of commencement of employment or membership, which shall include at a minimum the information set forth in subsection (b), the specific responsibilities of supervisory and managerial employees and the methods that such employees should take to ensure immediate and appropriate corrective action in addressing sexual harassment complaints. Employers, labor organizations and appropriate state agencies are encouraged to cooperate in making such training available.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 4a - Conveyance by Void Instruments; Penalty

Section 4A. Whoever conveys real property by an instrument which contains a provision which he knows is void under the provisions of section twenty-three B of chapter one hundred and eighty-four shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 7 - Posting Notices Setting Forth Excerpts of Statute and Other Information; Refusal to Post

Section 7. Every employer, employment agency, real estate agency, rental office, labor union, institutional creditor, proprietor of a business or of a place of public accommodation, or other person, corporation, or group subject to this chapter, shall post in a conspicuous place or places on his premises a notice to be prepared or approved by the commission, which shall set forth excerpts of this chapter and such other relevant information which the commission deems necessary to explain the chapter. Any employer, employment agency, real estate agency, rental office, labor union, institutional creditor, proprietor of a business or of a place of public accommodation, or other person, corporation, or group subject to this chapter, who refuses to comply with the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. A subsequent violation of this section by the same person, corporation, or group, if such violation occurs more than sixty days from a prior conviction for violation of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 8 - Interference With Commission; Violation of Order

Section 8. Any person, employer, labor organization or employment agency, who or which shall wilfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with the commission or any of its members or representatives in the performance of duty under this chapter, or shall wilfully violate a final order of the commission shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both; but procedure for the review of the order shall not be deemed to be such wilful conduct.
MA Gen L ch 151b § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151b - Unlawful Discrimination Because of Race, Color, Religious Creed, National Origin, Ancestry or Sex|Section 10 - Partial Invalidity

Section 10. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall, for any reason, be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. As used in this chapter—  (a) The word ''commission'' means the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, established by section fifty-six of chapter six.  (b) The term ''educational institution'' means any institution for instruction or training, including but not limited to secretarial schools, business schools, academies, colleges, universities, primary and secondary schools, which accepts applications for admission from the public generally and which is not in its nature distinctly private, except that nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent a religious or denominational educational institution from selecting its students exclusively from adherents or members of such religion or denomination or from giving preference in such selection to such adherents or members.  (c) The term ''religious or denominational educational institution'' shall include any educational institution, whether operated separately, or as a department of, or school within the university, and which is operated, supervised or controlled by religious or denominational organizations, or in which the courses of instruction lead primarily to the degree of bachelor, master or doctor of theology, and which has so certified to the commission that it is so operated, supervised or controlled.  (d) The term ''vocational training institution'' shall include any educational institution the primary purpose of which is to offer technical, agricultural, business or trade courses or courses of study leading to employment in recognized trades or occupations.  (e) The term ''sexual harassment'' means any sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:— (i) submission to or rejection of such advances, requests or conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of the provision of the benefits, privileges or placement services or as a basis for the evaluation of academic achievement; or (ii) such advances, requests or conduct have the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's education by creating an intimidating, hostile, humiliating or sexually offensive educational environment.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 2 - Unfair Practices

Section 2. It shall be an unfair educational practice for an educational institution:—  (a) To exclude or limit or otherwise discriminate against any United States citizen or citizens seeking admission as students to such institution because of race, religion, creed, color or national origin.  (b) To penalize any of its employees or students or any applicant for admission because he has testified, participated or assisted in any proceeding under this section.  (c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry concerning the race, religion, color or national origin of a person seeking admission, except that a religious or denominational educational institution which certified to the commission that it is a religious or denominational educational institution may inquire as to the religious or denominational affiliations of applicants for admission.  (d) To exclude, limit or otherwise discriminate against any person seeking admission to a program or course of study leading to a degree, beyond a bachelor's degree, because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex or national origin, or to so discriminate against any student admitted to such program or course of study in providing benefits, privileges and placement services.  (e) To exclude from admission any student because said student is blind or deaf or requires the use of a dog guide.  (f) To request any information, to make or keep a record of such information, to use any form of application or application blank which requests information or to exclude or limit or otherwise discriminate against any person by reason of his or her failure to furnish information through a written application or oral inquiry or otherwise regarding: (i) an arrest, detention, or disposition regarding any violation of the law in which no conviction resulted or in which a conviction has been vacated, or (ii) a first conviction for any of the following misdemeanors: drunkenness, simple assault, speeding, minor traffic violations, affray or disturbance of the peace, or (iii) any conviction of a misdemeanor where such conviction occurred more than five years prior to the date of such application for admission, unless the applicant was sentenced to imprisonment upon conviction of such misdemeanor, or such individual has been convicted of any offense within the five years' period.  (g) To sexually harass students in any program or course of study in any educational institution.  This section is not intended to limit or prevent an educational institution from using any criteria other than race, religion, creed, sex, color or national origin in the admission of students.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 2a - Vocational Training Institutions; Unfair Practices

Section 2A. It shall be an unfair educational practice for a vocational training institution:—  (a) To exclude or limit or otherwise discriminate against any person or persons seeking admission as students to such institution, course, or course of study because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex or national origin.  (b) To discriminate against any student in providing the benefits, privileges, and placement services associated with such institution, course, or course of study because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex or national origin.  (c) To penalize any of its employees or students or any applicant for admission because he or she has testified, participated or assisted in any proceeding under this section.  (d) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry concerning the race, religion, creed, color, age, sex or national origin of a person seeking admission, except that a religious or denominational educational institution which certified to the commission that it is a religious or denominational educational institution may inquire as to the religious or denominational affiliations of applicants for admission.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 2b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 2b - Absence of Student Due to Religious Beliefs

Section 2B. Any student in an educational or vocational training institution, other than a religious or denominational educational or vocational training institution, who is unable, because of his religious beliefs, to attend classes or to participate in any examination, study, or work requirement on a particular day shall be excused from any such examination or study or work requirement, and shall be provided with an opportunity to make up such examination, study, or work requirement which he may have missed because of such absence on any particular day; provided, however, that such makeup examination or work shall not create an unreasonable burden upon such school. No fees of any kind shall be charged by the institution for making available to the said student such opportunity. No adverse or prejudicial effects shall result to any student because of his availing himself of the provisions of this section.  A copy of this section shall be published by each institution of higher education in the catalog of such institution containing the list of available courses.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 4 - Review of Commission's Order; Court Order for Enforcement; Proceedings; Jurisdiction; Appeals

Section 4. (a) Any party aggrieved by a final order of the commission may obtain a judicial review thereof, and the commission may obtain an order of the court for the enforcement thereof by a proceeding described in this section. Such proceeding shall be brought in the superior court within the county wherein any respondent is located.  (b) Upon the filing of a bill of complaint and the service of said bill, the court shall have equitable jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the questions determined therein. Thereupon the commission shall file with the court a transcript of the record of the hearing. The court after hearing and argument shall have power to make and enter upon such record an order annulling or confirming wholly or partly, or modifying the determination reviewed, as to any or all of the parties, and directing appropriate action by any party to the proceeding.  (c) The decision of the commission shall be reviewed in accordance with the standards for review provided in paragraph (8) of section fourteen of chapter thirty A.  (d) The jurisdiction of the superior court shall be exclusive and its judgment and order shall be final, subject to review by the supreme judicial court, upon appeal by the commission or any party to the proceedings, in the same manner provided by general law for appeal from the equity jurisdiction of the superior court.
MA Gen L ch 151c § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151c - Fair Educational Practices|Section 5 - Regulations of Commission

Section 5. The commission shall have the power, after public hearing, to adopt, promulgate, amend or rescind rules and regulations concerning proceedings at hearings and other investigations under this chapter, which rules and regulations shall be not inconsistent with the provisions of said chapter.