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MA Gen L ch 149 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 28 - Right of Action Against City or Town for Labor; Filing Statement; Fee; Limitations

Section 28. A person to whom a debt is due for labor performed in constructing a building, sewer or drain, or water works or other public works owned by a city or town, under a contract with any person having authority from or rightfully acting for such city or town in furnishing such labor, shall have a right of action against such city or town to recover such debt if, within thirty days after he ceases to perform such labor, he files in the clerk's office of the city or town against which he claims such right of action a written statement under oath of the amount of the debt so due to him, and the names of the persons for whom and by whose employment the labor was performed and pays to the said clerk the fee provided by clause (61) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two, and if, within sixty days after he ceases to perform such labor, he commences such action. Such right of action shall not be lost by reason of a mistake in stating the amount due; but the claimant shall not recover as damages a larger amount than is named in such statement as due to him, with interest. No person who has contracted to furnish labor other than his own in such construction shall have such right of action.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 29a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 29a - Enforcement of Surety Bonds by Persons Furnishing Labor or Materials on Private Building Projects

Section 29A. Whenever any surety bond shall be given in connection with any written contract for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of any private building or structure upon privately owned land, containing a condition for the payment of all labor and material used or reasonably required for use in the performance of the contract, any person who furnishes such labor or materials shall be entitled to sue for his own use and benefit upon such bond in accordance with its provisions and need not prove that he relied upon the bond in furnishing labor or material.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 29b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 29b - Waiver or Cancellation of Payment Bond

Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel the requirement for furnishing a payment bond shall be valid as a defense against a claimant who relied upon the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond unless that reservation appears in the specifications immediately following the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 29c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 29c - Indemnification as Part of Contract

Section 29C. Any provision for or in connection with a contract for construction, reconstruction, installation, alteration, remodeling, repair, demolition or maintenance work, including without limitation, excavation, backfilling or grading, on any building or structure, whether underground or above ground, or on any real property, including without limitation any road, bridge, tunnel, sewer, water or other utility line, which requires a subcontractor to indemnify any party for injury to persons or damage to property not caused by the subcontractor or its employees, agents or subcontractors, shall be void.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 29d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 29d - Surety Company; Bonds

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 company organized pursuant to section 105 of chapter 175 or of a surety company authorized to do business in the commonwealth under the provisions of section 106 of said chapter 175 and be approved by the U.S. Department of Treasury and are acceptable as sureties and reinsurers on federal bonds under Title 31 of the United States Code, sections 9304 to 9308.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 30 - Eight Hour Day and Six Day Week; Emergencies; Work on Highways

Section 30. The service of all laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen and inspectors now or hereafter employed by the commonwealth or any county therein or any town which, by vote of the city council, or of the voters at a town meeting, accepts this section or has accepted section one of chapter two hundred and forty of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, or by any contractor or sub-contractor for or upon any public works of the commonwealth or of any county therein or of any such town is hereby restricted to eight hours in any one day, to forty-eight hours in any one week, and to six days in any one week. No officers of the commonwealth, except as provided herein, or of any county or of any such town, no such contractor or sub-contractor or other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control the service of such laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen or inspectors shall require or permit any such laborer, workman, mechanic, foreman or inspector to work more than eight hours in any one day, or more than forty-eight hours in any one week, or more than six days in any one week, except in cases of emergency. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the employment by the state department of highways, or by any contractor or sub-contractor for said department, of laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen or inspectors for more than eight hours in any one day in the construction or reconstruction of highways when, in the opinion of the attorney general, public necessity so requires.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 30a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 30a - Tours of Duty and Hours of Work of State Employees; Regulations

Section 30A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or other general or special law, the service of all persons employed by the commonwealth is hereby restricted to five tours of duty in any one work week, and to such hours in any one work week, not less than thirty-seven and one half hours, except in the case of part-time employment, nor more than forty hours, and with like hours for like tour of duty classes, as determined by the personnel administrator, in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty, and the tour of duty is hereby restricted to eight hours, and such tour of duty shall be arranged to fall within a period not exceeding ten consecutive hours; provided, that this section shall not apply to the state police uniformed force and detectives, conservation officers, coastal wardens, employees engaged in forest fire observation, investigators and examiners and other employees of the registry of motor vehicles having police powers under section twenty-nine of chapter ninety, labor relations examiners, teachers, armorers, elected officers, appointees of the governor, heads of departments and divisions and their deputies and assistants, confidential secretaries, scrub women, cleaners or incumbents of the positions of superintendents, assistant superintendents, wardens, deputy wardens, stewards, physicians, dentists, head farmers, business managers, chief power plant engineers at mental health, mental retardation, public health, public welfare and correction institutions, soldiers' homes in Massachusetts and agencies under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services; the manager of the boarding hall at the University of Massachusetts; the adjutant or assistant adjutants, directors of engineering services and directors of business services of the soldiers' homes in Massachusetts; the construction and maintenance supervisor at the reformatory for women; the state farm master at the state farm; members of the Massachusetts military reservation fire department; members of the 104th fighter wing fire department; members of the Devens fire department established pursuant to chapter 498 of the acts of 1993; and such other employees as may be exempted therefrom or any part thereof by a rule or rules of the personnel administrator. Said administrator is empowered to make rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration, to carry out the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 30b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 30b - Overtime of State Employees; Regulations

Section 30B. All service in excess of eight hours in any one tour of duty or forty hours in any one work week rendered by any employee of the commonwealth at the request of an officer of the commonwealth or other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control such employee, except the state police uniformed force and detectives, fire prevention engineer, boatswain coastal patrol boat, captain coastal patrol boat, coastal warden coastal patrol boat, coastal warden engineer coastal patrol boat, industrial relations adjuster, labor relations examiners, teachers, armorers, elected officers, appointees of the governor, heads of departments and divisions and their deputies and assistants, confidential secretaries, incumbents of the positions of superintendents, assistant superintendents, deputy superintendents, stewards, physicians, dentists, head farmers, business manager, institutions chief power plant engineers at mental health, intellectual disability, public health, correctional institutions, soldiers' homes in Massachusetts and agencies under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services, the manager of the boarding hall at the University of Massachusetts, the adjutants of the soldiers' homes in Massachusetts, and any employees while on full travel status, shall be compensated for at the rate of one and one half times the regular hourly rate of said employee for every hour or fraction thereof of such services rendered. The personnel administrator is empowered to make rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration, to carry out the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 30c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 30c - Work Week of Uniformed Members of State Police; Overtime Service; Compensation; Rules and Regulations

Section 30C. The service of all members of the uniformed members of the state police and land based environmental police officers of the division of law enforcement shall consist of an average of forty hours per week over a period of one or more work weeks not in excess of eight, as determined by the commissioner of the department in which they are respectively serving, and shall be restricted to not more than five normal work days, as so determined, in any consecutive seven-day period; provided, however, that all services in excess of the normal work day, as so determined, or in excess of forty hours per week, as so averaged, rendered by any such officer at the request of the commissioner of the department in which he is serving, shall be compensated for at the rate of one and one half times the regular hourly rate of such officer for every hour or fraction thereof of such services rendered.  The personnel administrator is empowered to make rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration, to carry out the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 31 - Eight Hour Day for Towns and Public Works for Towns; Emergencies; Acceptance of Statute Relating to Employees of Commonwealth

Section 31. The service of all laborers, workmen and mechanics now or hereafter employed by any town which has accepted section twenty of chapter one hundred and six of the Revised Laws, or section forty-two of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, or said section forty-two, as affected by chapter four hundred and ninety-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, and which has not accepted section one of chapter two hundred and forty of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, or by any contractor or sub-contractor for or upon any public works of any such town, is hereby restricted to eight hours in any one day. No officer of any such town, no such contractor or sub-contractor or other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control the service of such laborers, workmen or mechanics shall require or permit any such laborer, workman or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any one day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency. But any such town may accept the preceding section and shall thereupon become subject thereto.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 32 - Scope of Words ''laborers, Workmen and Mechanics'' and ''requiring''

Section 32. In construing sections thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four the words ''laborers, workmen and mechanics'' shall be deemed to include engineers and also janitors, custodians and other employees doing similar work in schools or other public buildings under the jurisdiction of any department, commission or board of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, and a threat of loss of employment or a threat to obstruct or prevent the obtaining of employment or to refrain from employing in the future shall be considered to be ''requiring'' within the meaning of sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33 - Hours of Labor to Make Up Saturday Half Holiday

Section 33. It shall not be a violation of section thirty or thirty-one if, in the event of a Saturday half holiday being given to a laborer, workman or mechanic, his hours of labor upon other working days are increased sufficiently to make a total of forty-eight hours for his week's work.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33a - Five Day and Forty Hour Week for Cities and Towns; Emergencies; Overtime; Reduction of Compensation

Section 33A. Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every city in which this section has been accepted in the manner provided in earlier provisions thereof, or shall be accepted, in the case of cities having a Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council, and, in the case of other cities by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of the charter, and in every town in which it has been or shall be accepted by vote of the town at an annual town meeting, shall be restricted to five days and forty hours in any one week; provided, that, in cases of emergency, when the mayor or a city official designated by him, the city manager in cities having a Plan E charter, or a city official designated by him, and the board of selectmen or a town official designated by them, determines that public necessity so requires, which determination shall be final and conclusive, service in excess of the days and hours aforesaid may be authorized by an officer of such city or town or by any other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control such employees, and such additional service shall be compensated for as overtime. This section shall not apply to policemen, firemen, school teachers, incumbents of offices specifically established by or under the authority of any general law or special act, or such other classes or groups of employees as from time to time may be specifically exempted therefrom in the manner provided for the acceptance of this section. The compensation payable to any employee shall not be reduced by reason of acceptance of this section.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33b - Five Day Week and Eight Hour Day for Cities and Towns; Overtime; Reduction of Compensation

Section 33B. Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every city in which this section shall be accepted, in the case of cities having a Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council, and, in the case of other cities by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of its charter, and in every town in which it shall be accepted by vote of the town at an annual town meeting, shall be restricted to five days and forty hours in any one week, and eight hours in any one day, and said eight hours shall be arranged to fall within a period of not exceeding nine consecutive hours; provided, that service in excess of the days and hours aforesaid may be authorized by an officer of such city or town or by any other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control such employees, and such additional service shall be compensated for as overtime. This section shall not apply to policemen, firemen, school teachers, incumbents of offices specifically established by or under the authority of any general law or special act, or such other classes or groups of employees as from time to time may be specifically exempted therefrom in the manner provided for the acceptance of this section. The compensation payable to any employee shall not be reduced by reason of acceptance of this section. The provisions of section thirty-three A shall not apply in any city or town which accepts this section.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33c - City and Town Employees; Overtime; Effective Date

Section 33C. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, any permanent employee of a city or town who is required to work in excess of his regular number of maximum hours per week as regulated by law, ordinance or by-law or rule shall be compensated for such additional hours of service at a rate of one and one half times his regular hourly compensation. The provisions of sections thirty-three A and thirty-three B shall not apply in any city or town which accepts this section.  This section shall take effect upon its acceptance in a city having a Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council, and, in any other city by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of its charter, and in a town by majority vote at the annual town meeting.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33d - Blood Donations; Leave of Absence Without Loss of Pay

Section 33D. Any employee of the commonwealth, of any county, and of any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, shall be allowed a leave of absence without loss of pay of not more than eight hours in each calendar year for the purpose of donating platelets, plasma white cells or whole blood to any cancer research center.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 33e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 33e - Leave of Absence to Serve as Organ Donor; State, County and Certain Municipal Employees

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 absence of not more than 30 days in a calendar year to serve as an organ donor, without loss of or reduction in pay, without loss of leave to which he is otherwise entitled and without loss of credit for time or service.  (b) If the necessity for leave under this section is foreseeable, the employee shall provide the employer with not less than 7 days' notice before the leave is to begin. If the necessity for leave is not foreseeable, the employee shall provide such notice as is practicable.  (c) An employer may require that a request for leave under this section be supported by a certification issued at such time and in such manner as the attorney general may by regulation require.  (d) The attorney general shall enforce this section, and may obtain injunctive or declaratory relief for this purpose. Violation of this shall be subject to the second paragraph of section 150 and to section 180.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 34 - Public Contracts; Stipulation as to Hours and Days of Work; Void Contracts

Section 34. Every contract, except for the purchase of material or supplies, involving the employment of laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen or inspectors, to which the commonwealth or any county or any town, subject to section thirty, is a party, shall contain a stipulation that no laborer, workman, mechanic, foreman or inspector working within the commonwealth, in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one day or more than forty-eight hours in any one week, or more than six days in any one week, except in cases of emergency, or, in case any town subject to section thirty-one is a party to such a contract, more than eight hours in any one day, except as aforesaid; provided, that in contracts entered into by the department of highways for the construction or reconstruction of highways there may be inserted in said stipulation a provision that said department, or any contractor or sub-contractor for said department, may employ laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen and inspectors for more than eight hours in any one day in such construction or reconstruction when, in the opinion of the commissioner, public necessity so requires. Every such contract not containing the aforesaid stipulation shall be null and void.