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RI Gen L § 28-47-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-7 - Classification of group self-insurers.

§ 28-47-7. Classification of group self-insurers.(a) The director shall administer all matters relating to group self-insurance under this chapter.(b) The director shall assign each group self-insurer, qualified under this chapter to one of the following groups:(1) Manufacturing and trade;(2) Transportation, public utilities, and construction;(3) Service industry;(4) Hospitals licensed under the provisions of the health care facility licensing act of Rhode Island which are subject to the provisions of chapters 29 — 38 of this title, and non-business corporations not including educational institutions to which the provisions of chapter 6 of title 7 apply which are subject to the provisions of chapters 29 — 38 of this title and which are operated for the benefit of and in connection with any one or more of the hospitals;(5) Miscellaneous.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-8 - Advisory committee for group self-insurance.

§ 28-47-8. Advisory committee for group self-insurance.(a) To advise the director, there shall be an advisory committee for group self-insurance which shall consist of seven (7) members appointed by the governor: (1) one of those members shall be named from the manufacturing and trade group of group self-insurance; (2) two (2) from the transportation, public utilities and construction group; (3) two (2) from the services industry; (4) one from health care facilities; and, (5) one member shall be a group self-insurer selected at large by the governor, who shall be vice-chairperson of the advisory committee. The director or his or her designee shall be an additional member of the advisory committee and act as chairperson of the committee. Any member appointed to the advisory committee shall be a group self-insurer or an officer of a group self-insurer or a person who on account of his or her employment or affiliation can be classed as a management representative of a group self-insurer.(b) The members of the advisory committee for group self-insurance shall be appointed for terms of three (3) years. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the governor. Members shall continue in office until their successors are appointed. In the event that no appointment is made within three (3) months after a vacancy exists or after the expiration of the term of a member, the remaining members may fill the vacancy by a majority vote. If a member is absent from two (2) consecutive regular meetings without adequate excuse his or her place may be declared vacant by the director.(c) Members of the advisory committee shall serve without pay, but are entitled to their reasonable and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in connection with their duties.(d) Regular meetings of the advisory committee shall be held twice a year on the dates to be fixed by the director. In addition, special meetings shall be held if called by the director or any three (3) members of the committee.(e) The advisory committee shall have access to all group self-insurance records and shall have the power to require the presence before it of any employee or any group self-insurer. Information obtained by members of the advisory committee shall be deemed confidential unless disclosed by order of the committee.(f) It shall be the duty of the advisory committee to advise the director on all matters relating to group self-insurance, particularly in respect to rules governing group self-insurance, the deposit or withdrawal of securities, and on such other matters as the director shall request.(g) The director shall detail to the advisory committee any stenographic or other assistance that may be necessary.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-9 - Audit of group self-insurance.

§ 28-47-9. Audit of group self-insurance.The director annually, as soon as practicable after April first in each succeeding year, shall ascertain the total amount of expenses, including in addition to the direct costs of personal services, the cost of maintenance and operation, the cost of retirement contributions made and workers' compensation premiums paid by the state for or on account of personnel, rentals for space occupied in state owned or state leased buildings, and all other direct or indirect costs incurred by the department of business regulation during the preceding calendar year in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Those expenses shall be assessed against all group self-insurers including for this purpose employers who have ceased to exercise the privilege of group self-insurance but have filed a surety bond, trust fund, or other security. The basis of apportionment of the assessment against each group shall be that proportion of those expenses, excluding any expenses associated with a disbanded group, that the written premium or equivalent premium of each group self-insurer at the close of the preceding calendar year bears to the total premium for all group self-insurers. The department may assess any disbanded group based upon the actual expenses incurred by the department for such group in the preceding fiscal year. For the purpose of this assessment, a "disbanded group" means a group in run-off. All those assessments when collected shall be paid to and for the use of the insurance division of the department of business regulation.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 83, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 234, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 299, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 53, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-10 - Surety bonds or other security.

§ 28-47-10. Surety bonds or other security.For the purpose of this chapter, the amount of surety bond, trust fund, or other adequate security required for group self-insurance plans shall be determined by the director by rule or regulation. If the director requires the group self-insurer to provide security other than a surety bond, the security that the director requires shall reside in Rhode Island and shall be in the form the director requires.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 234, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-11 - Assessment against group self-insurers.

§ 28-47-11. Assessment against group self-insurers.(a) Whenever the director determines that the compensation and benefits provided by this chapter may be unpaid by reason of the default of an insolvent group self-insurance plan, and the penal sum of the surety bond, trust fund, or other security is about to become exhausted, the director shall levy an assessment against all self-insured employers in that group self-insurance plan to assure prompt payment of that compensation and benefits.(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, in the event that an employee leasing firm approved under this chapter does not pay the compensation and benefits provided by this chapter by reason of insolvency, and the penal sum of the surety or other security is about to become exhausted, the director shall levy an assessment against all client companies of the employee leasing firm to assure prompt payment of the compensation and benefits.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 234, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-12 - Premium taxes and assessments.

§ 28-47-12. Premium taxes and assessments.Each group self-insurer, except any group self-insurer composed of the state, municipal governments, governmental authorities of the state or municipalities, or quasi-municipal subdivisions of the state or municipalities, shall pay premium taxes as close as practicable on the same basis as insurers as provided in chapter 17 of title 44. Each group self-insurer shall pay assessments for the workers' compensation administrative fund pursuant to chapter 37 of this title on the same basis as is practicable as an insurer.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 32, art. 3, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 101, § 8; P.L. 1994, ch. 401, § 9.
RI Gen L § 28-47-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-13 - Reinsurance.

§ 28-47-13. Reinsurance.No group may operate as a self-insurer without maintaining both specific and aggregate reinsurance and/or excess insurance in a form and with monetary limits approved by the director and from a reinsurer and/or insurer approved by the director.History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 133, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-14 - Form of entity of group self-insurer.

§ 28-47-14. Form of entity of group self-insurer.A group self-insurer may constitute itself as any form of legal entity, including, but not limited to, a profit or nonprofit corporation or a partnership. That entity shall not be considered to be carrying on the business of insurance pursuant to § 7-1-5 and shall not be subject to the provisions of title 27.History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 133, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-47-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-47 - Workers' Compensation - Group Self-Insurance|Section 28-47-15 - Employee leasing company self-insurance.

§ 28-47-15. Employee leasing company self-insurance.An employee leasing company that wishes to self-insure without becoming a member of a group of employers shall be subject to this chapter and may adopt a plan of self-insurance and make application to the director for its approval and, for the purpose of this chapter, the employee leasing company shall be considered the group self-insurer. Provided, that the director shall have the authority to exempt any employee leasing company from the provisions of this chapter as he or she deems reasonable. Nothing in this section shall prevent more than one employee leasing company from making an application to become a group self-insurer under the provisions of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 234, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-1 - Definitions.

§ 28-48-1. Definitions.As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings:(1) "Director" means the director of the department of labor and training.(2) "Employee" means any full-time employee who works an average of thirty (30) or more hours per week.(3) "Employer" means and includes:(i) any person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other business entity that employs fifty (50) or more employees,(ii) the state of Rhode Island, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and any state department or agency that employs any employees,(iii) any city or town or municipal agency that employs thirty (30) or more employees, and(iv) any person who acts directly or indirectly in the interest of any employer.(4) "Family leave" means leave by reason of the serious illness of a family member.(5) "Family member" means a parent, spouse, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, or the employee himself or herself, and with respect to employees of the state as defined in subsection (3)(ii), shall include domestic partners as defined in § 36-12-1(3).(6) "Parental leave" means leave by reason of the birth of a child of an employee or the placement of a child sixteen (16) years of age or less with an employee in connection with the adoption of the child by the employee.(7) "Serious illness" means a disabling physical or mental illness, injury, impairment, or condition that involves inpatient care in a hospital, a nursing home, or a hospice, or outpatient care requiring continuing treatment or supervision by a healthcare provider.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 380, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 189, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 316, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-2 - Parental leave and family leave requirement.

§ 28-48-2. Parental leave and family leave requirement.(a) Every employee who has been employed by the same employer for twelve (12) consecutive months shall be entitled, upon advance notice to his or her employer, to thirteen (13) consecutive work weeks of parental leave or family leave in any two (2) calendar years. The employee shall give at least thirty (30) days notice of the intended date upon which parental leave or family leave shall commence and terminate, unless prevented by medical emergency from giving the notice. The director shall promulgate regulations governing the form and content of the employee's notice to the employer.(b) Parental leave or family leave granted pursuant to this chapter may consist of unpaid leave. If an employer provides paid parental leave or family leave for fewer than thirteen (13) weeks, the additional weeks of leave added to attain the total of thirteen (13) weeks required by subsection (a) of this section may be unpaid.(c) The employer may request that the employee provide the employer with written certification from a physician caring for the person who is the reason for the employee's leave, which certification shall specify the probable duration of the employee's leave.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 380, § 2.
RI Gen L § 28-48-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-3 - Employment and health benefits protection.

§ 28-48-3. Employment and health benefits protection.(a) Every employee who exercises his or her right to parental leave or family leave under this chapter shall, upon the expiration of that leave, be entitled to be restored by the employer to the position held by the employee when the leave commenced, or to a position with equivalent seniority, status, employment benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment, including fringe benefits and service credits that the employee had been entitled to at the commencement of leave.(b) During any parental leave or family leave taken pursuant to this chapter, the employer shall maintain any existing health benefits of the employee in force for the duration of the leave as if the employee had continued in employment continuously from the date he or she commenced the leave until the date he or she returns to employment pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.(c) Prior to commencement of parental leave or family leave, the employee shall pay to the employer a sum equal to the premium required to maintain the employee's health benefits in force during the period of parental leave. The employer shall return the payment to the employee within ten (10) days following the employee's return to employment.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 380, § 2.
RI Gen L § 28-48-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-4 - Effect on existing employment benefits.

§ 28-48-4. Effect on existing employment benefits.(a) The taking of parental leave or family leave pursuant to this chapter shall not result in the loss of any benefit accrued before the date on which the leave commenced.(b) Except as provided in § 28-48-3(b), nothing in this chapter shall be construed to entitle any employee who takes parental leave or family leave pursuant to this chapter to any benefit other than benefits to which the employee would have been entitled had he or she not taken the leave.(c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect an employer's obligation to comply with any collective bargaining agreement or employment benefit plan that provides greater parental leave or family leave rights to employees than the rights provided under this chapter.(d) The parental leave and family leave rights mandated by this chapter shall not be diminished by any collective bargaining agreement or by any employment benefit plan.(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect or diminish the contract rights or seniority status of any other employee of any employer covered by this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 380, § 2.
RI Gen L § 28-48-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-5 - Prohibited acts.

§ 28-48-5. Prohibited acts.(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise any right provided by this chapter.(b) It shall be unlawful for any employer to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or in any other manner discriminate against any employee for exercising any right provided by this chapter.(c) It shall be unlawful for any employer to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or in any other manner discriminate against any employee for opposing any practice made unlawful by this title.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-6 - Judicial enforcement.

§ 28-48-6. Judicial enforcement.A civil action may be brought in the superior court by an employee or by the director against any employer to enforce the provisions of this title or of any order issued by the director pursuant to § 28-48-7. The court may enjoin any act or practice that violates or may violate any provision of this chapter, and may order any other equitable relief that is necessary and appropriate to redress the violation or to enforce any provision of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-7 - Enforcement powers of the director.

§ 28-48-7. Enforcement powers of the director.If, after giving an employer written notice and an opportunity to be heard, the director finds that the employer has failed to comply with any provision of this chapter, the director may issue the orders that he or she deems necessary to protect the rights of any employee. The director shall promulgate the rules and regulations that are necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-8 - Civil penalty for violations.

§ 28-48-8. Civil penalty for violations.Any employer who violates any provision of this chapter or of any order issued pursuant to § 28-48-7 shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). In the case of a continuing violation, each day's continuance shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-9 - Severability.

§ 28-48-9. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end, the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 366, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-10 - Notice.

§ 28-48-10. Notice.(a) Each employer shall post and keep posted, in conspicuous places upon its premises where notices to employees and applicants for employment are customarily posted, a notice, to be approved by the agency, setting forth excerpts from, or summaries of, the pertinent provisions of this chapter and information pertaining to the filing of a charge.(b) Any employer that willfully violates this section shall be assessed a civil money penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each separate offense.History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 380, § 3.
RI Gen L § 28-48-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-11 - Use of sick leave for adoptive parents.

§ 28-48-11. Use of sick leave for adoptive parents.Any employer who allows sick time or sick leave of an employee to be utilized after the birth of a child shall allow the same time to be used for the placement of a child sixteen (16) years of age or less with an employee in connection with the adoption of the child by the employee.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 202, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-48-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-48 - Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act|Section 28-48-12 - School involvement leave.

§ 28-48-12. School involvement leave.(a) An employee who has been employed by the same employer for twelve (12) consecutive months shall be entitled to a total of ten (10) hours of leave during any twelve (12) month period to attend school conferences or other school-related activities for a child of whom the employee is the parent, foster parent or guardian.(b) The employee must provide twenty-four (24) hours prior notice of the leave and make a reasonable effort to schedule the leave so as not to unduly disrupt the operations of the employer.(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the leave be paid; except that under this section, an employee may substitute any accrued paid vacation leave or other appropriate paid leave for any part of the leave.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 64, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 186, § 1.
RI Gen L § 28-49-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations|Chapter 28-49 - Rhode Island Disaster Service Volunteer Leave Act|Section 28-49-1 - Short title.

§ 28-49-1. Short title.This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Rhode Island Disaster Service Volunteer Leave Act."History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 37, § 1.