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MA Gen L ch 151 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 10 - Wage Rate Less Than Fair Wage; Mailing and Posting Wage Rate and Regulations

Section 10. After the commissioner has established a fair wage in any occupation in accordance with sections seven and nine, it shall be unlawful for any employer in such occupation to employ persons for less than such rate of wages. The commissioner shall send by mail so far as is practicable to each employer in the occupation in question a copy of the wage rate and related regulations and each employer shall be required to post a copy of said wages and regulations in each room in which persons affected by such wages and regulations are employed.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 11 - Failure to Observe Fair Wage or Regulations; Summons; Hearing; Publication of Names, Liability

Section 11. If the commissioner has reason to believe that any employer is not paying a fair wage or not observing other minimum wage regulations, the commissioner may, on fifteen days notice, summon such employer to show cause why the name of such employer should not be published as having committed such violation. After a hearing and a finding of nonobservance, the commissioner may cause to be published in such newspaper or newspapers within this commonwealth or in such other manner as he may deem appropriate, the name of such employer or employers. Neither the commissioner nor any authorized representative of the commissioner nor any newspaper publisher, proprietor, editor or employee thereof shall be liable to an action for damages for publishing the name of any employer as provided herein unless guilty of wilful misrepresentation.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 14 - Review by Court; Procedure; Effect of Partial Unconstitutionality of Wage Regulations

Section 14. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner may bring a petition in the superior court praying that such decision of the commissioner may be reviewed by the court, and after such notice to the commissioner as the court deems necessary, it shall review such decision, hear the evidence and make such order approving, in whole or in part, or setting aside, in whole or in part, the decision appealed from as justice may require, and may refer any matter or issue arising in the proceedings to the commissioner for further consideration. The filing of the petition shall not stay proceedings upon the decision appealed from, but the court may, on application, after notice to the commissioner and for cause shown, grant a restraining order. Upon any such petition the court may take evidence without being bound by any technical rules of evidence or procedure, to the end that any evidence may be received which the court considers probative.  If any part of any minimum fair wage regulation is severable therefrom and if such part is held to be invalid or unconstitutional the remaining parts of said regulation shall not be affected thereby, but shall continue in effect as if the part determined to be invalid or unconstitutional had not been included therein.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 15 - Employer's Records; Statement Furnished to Commissioner or Attorney General; Inspection of Records by Employee

Section 15. Every employer shall keep a true and accurate record of the name, address and occupation of each employee, of the amount paid each pay period to each employee, of the hours worked each day and each week by each employee, and such other information as the commissioner or the attorney general in their discretion shall deem material and necessary. Such records shall be kept on file for at least 3 years after the entry date of the record. Such records shall be maintained at the place of employment, at an office of the employer, or with a bank, accountant or other central location and shall be open to the inspection of the commissioner or the attorney general, or their authorized representatives at any reasonable time, and the employer shall furnish immediately to the attorney general, commissioner or representative, upon request, a copy of any of these records. Every employer shall furnish to the commissioner, or the attorney general, or their authorized representative, on demand, a sworn statement of such record, and, if the commissioner or the attorney general shall so require, upon forms prescribed or approved by him. An employer shall allow an employee at reasonable times and places to inspect the records kept under this section and pertaining to that employee.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 16 - Posting Orders and Rules

Section 16. Every employer, except employers of persons engaged in domestic service in the employer's home, subject to a minimum fair wage order shall keep a copy of such order posted in a conspicuous place in every room in which persons are employed. Employers shall be furnished copies of orders or notices on request without charge. The commissioner may require each employer in any occupation subject to this chapter to post rules which apply to such employer's employees, in such reasonable way or ways and for such length of time as he may direct.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 17 - Department or Attorney General Questioning Employees

Section 17. Each employer shall permit any duly authorized officer or employee of the department or of the attorney general to question any employee of such employer in the place of employment, other than places of employment of persons engaged in domestic service in the home of the employer, and during work hours in respect to the wages paid to and the hours worked by employees.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 20 - Payment of Less Than Minimum Fair Wage; Recovery of Deficiency; Unclaimed Award; Deposit of Funds

Section 20. If a person is paid by an employer less than the minimum fair wage to which the person is entitled under or by virtue of a minimum fair wage regulation, or less than $1.85 per hour in a manufacturing occupation or in any other occupation not covered by a minimum fair wage regulation, the person may institute and prosecute in his own name and on his own behalf, or for himself and for others similarly situated, a civil action for injunctive relief, for any damages incurred and for the full amount of the minimum wages less any amount actually paid to him by the employer. An agreement between the person and the employer to work for less than the minimum wage shall not be a defense to such action. An employee so aggrieved who prevails in such an action shall be awarded treble damages, as liquidated damages, for any loss of minimum wage and shall also be awarded the costs of the litigation and reasonable attorneys' fees. At the request of any employee paid less than the minimum wage to which he or she is entitled the attorney general may take an assignment of such wage claim in trust for the assigning employee and may bring any legal action necessary to collect such claim, and the employer shall be required to pay the costs and such reasonable attorney's fees as may be allowed by the court. The attorney general shall not be required to pay a filing fee in connection with any such action.  In any action or administrative proceeding by an employee or the commissioner instituted upon such a wage claim in which the employee prevails and the commissioner thereafter in possession of the resulting award is unable after a reasonable search to locate the employee or to identify and locate the employee's successor in interest, the commissioner shall, upon expiration of one year from the date of said award, deposit the funds from any such award, less costs and reasonable attorney's fees where applicable, in the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 20a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 20a - Limitation Period for Criminal or Civil Action

Section 20A. The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to any cause of action accruing more than 3 years prior to the date of filing in court of a criminal or civil action; provided, however, that the limitation period shall be tolled from the date that the employee or a similarly situated employee files a complaint with the attorney general alleging a violation of this chapter until the date that the attorney general issues a letter authorizing a private right of action or the date that an enforcement action by the attorney general becomes final.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 21 - Copy of Order and Certificate Evidence of Compliance With Statute and Effectiveness of Order

Section 21. In any prosecution under section nineteen or in any action or suit under section twenty, a copy of a mandatory order covering any occupation, together with a certificate attesting the correctness of the copy and setting forth that on the date of such certificate such order is in force, bearing the signature of the commissioner attested by the state secretary in accordance with section seventy-six of chapter two hundred and thirty-three, shall be competent evidence equally with the original order, and shall be prima facie evidence that the provisions of this chapter relative to the establishment of minimum fair wage rates in such occupation were complied with prior to the making of such order, and that such order has continued in full force and effect up to the date of such certificate.
MA Gen L ch 151 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151 - Minimum Fair Wages|Section 22 - Title of Statute

Section 22. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the minimum fair wage law.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 2 - Service Deemed ''employment''; Exclusions

Section 2. Service performed by an individual, except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise requires, shall be deemed to be employment subject to this chapter irrespective of whether the common-law relationship of master and servant exists, unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the commissioner that—  (a) such individual has been and will continue to be free from control and direction in connection with the performance of such services, both under his contract for the performance of service and in fact; and  (b) such service is performed either outside the usual course of the business for which the service is performed or is performed outside of all the places of business of the enterprise for which the service is performed; and  (c) such individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business of the same nature as that involved in the service performed.  The failure to withhold federal or state income taxes or to pay workers compensation premiums with respect to an individual's wages shall not be used for the purposes of making a determination under this section. An individual's exercise of the option to purchase insurance as permitted by subsection (4) of section 1 of chapter 152 shall not be used for purposes of making a determination under this section.  Whoever fails to treat an individual as an employee according to this chapter shall be punished as provided in section 47. Nothing in this section shall limit the availability of other remedies at law or in equity.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 3 - Service Within and Without Commonwealth Included in ''employment''

Section 3. The term ''employment'', except in such cases as the context of this chapter otherwise requires, shall include an individual's entire service, performed within, or both within and without the commonwealth, if—  (a) the service is localized in the commonwealth. Service shall be deemed to be localized within the commonwealth if the service is performed entirely within the commonwealth, or the service is performed both within and without the commonwealth, but the service performed without the commonwealth is incidental to the individual's service within the commonwealth; for example, is temporary or transitory in nature, or consists of isolated transactions.  (b) the service is not localized in any state, but some part of the service is performed in the commonwealth and (1) the individual's base of operations is in the commonwealth or, if there is no base of operations, then the place from which such service is directed or controlled, is within the commonwealth, or (2) the individual's base of operations or place from which such service is directed or controlled is not in any state in which some part of the service is performed, but the individual's residence is in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 5 - Services Under Arrangements With Agencies of Other States and Federal Government Included in ''employment''

Section 5. The term ''employment'' shall include services covered by an arrangement under provisions of section sixty-six, pursuant to which arrangement all services performed by an individual for an employing unit are deemed to be performed within the commonwealth, if the commissioner has approved the request of the employing unit that the entire service of such individual during the period covered by such request be deemed employment subject to this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 6a - Other Service Not Included in ''employment''

Section 6A. The term ''employment'' shall not include service performed by an individual in the employ of the commonwealth or any of its instrumentalities or any political subdivision thereof or any of its instrumentalities or any instrumentality of any of the foregoing and one or more states or political subdivisions or Indian tribes if such individual performed such services as:  (1) an elected official; or  (2) a member of, a legislative body; or  (3) a member of the judiciary; or  (4) a member of the National Guard or Air National Guard; or  (5) an employee serving on a temporary basis in case of fire, storm, snow, earthquake, flood, or similar emergency;  (6) an employee serving in a position which, under or pursuant to the laws of the commonwealth or tribal law, is appointed to either a nontenured policymaker or advisor, or in a policymaking or advisory position the performance of the duties of which ordinarily does not require more than eight hours per week; or  (7) an election official or election workers if the amount of remuneration received by the individual during the calendar year for services as an election official or election worker is less than $1,000.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 8a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 8a - Other Employing Units Subject to Statute

Section 8A. (a) An employing unit for which services described under subsection (a) of section four A are performed shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of section eight.  (b) An employing unit for which services described under subsection (b) of section four A are performed, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter as of January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, who or which, paid remuneration in cash in any calendar quarter during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-seven, amounting to $40,000 or more to individuals performing such services, or employed ten or more individuals performing such services on some day in each of twenty weeks during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-seven. The employment of ten or more individuals in service described under subsection (b) of section four A on same day in each of twenty weeks, or the payment of remuneration in cash amounting to $40,000 or more for such services in any calendar quarter in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-eight or in any subsequent year shall constitute the employing unit thereof an employer as of January first of the year in which such employment or payment of remuneration occurs.  Employers who exceed the thresholds specified in this section in a single quarter shall again be eligible for exemption from this chapter provided they do not exceed said thresholds in any of the remaining and subsequent calendar year.  (c) Any employing unit for which services described under subsection (c) of section four A are performed, who or which, or whose agent paid remuneration in cash amounting to one thousand dollars or more in any calendar quarter during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-seven shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter as of January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.  Any employing unit for which services described under subsection (c) of section four A are performed, who or which, or whose agent paid remuneration in cash amounting to one thousand dollars or more in any calendar quarter in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-eight or in any subsequent year, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter as of January first of the year in which payment of such remuneration occurs.  (d) An employing unit for which services described under subsections (b) and (c) of section four A are performed shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter, who or which, or whose agent would be subject under subsections (b) to (h), inclusive, of section eight.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 8b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 8b - Domestic Service and Agricultural Labor; Employer

Section 8B. (a) The remuneration earned or the employment of an individual performing domestic service after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven shall not be taken into account in determining whether or not an employing unit is an employer under this chapter where:  (1) the employing unit is one for which other than domestic service is performed and;  (2) such other service is service defined as employment in subsections (a), (b) and (d) of section four A and;  (3) the employing unit is not an employer solely by reason of service defined as employment in subsection (c) of section four A.  (b) The remuneration earned or the employment of an individual performing service in agricultural labor after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven shall not be taken into account in determining whether or not an employing unit is an employer under this chapter where:  (1) the employing unit is one for which service other than service in agricultural labor is performed and;  (2) such other service is service defined as employment in subsections (c) and (d) of section four A and;  (3) the employing unit is not an employer solely by reason of service defined as employment in subsection (b) of section four A.  If an employing unit is determined an employer of agricultural labor, such an employing unit shall be determined an employer for the purposes of subsection (i) of section one and of section eight.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 8c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 8c - Crew Leaders; Definition; Employees of Crew Leaders

Section 8C. (a) Crew Leaders who are registered or provide specialized agricultural labor. For the purposes of subsection (h) of section 1, any individual who is a member of a crew furnished by a crew leader to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person shall be treated as an employee of such crew leader if such crew leader holds a valid certificate of registration under The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 or substantially all the members of such crew operate or maintain tractors, mechanized harvesting or crop dusting equipment, or any other mechanized equipment, which is provided by such crew leader; and if such individual is not an employee of such other person within the meaning of section two.  (b) For purposes of subsection (b) of section eight A, in the case of any individual who is furnished by a crew leader to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person and who is not treated as an employee of such crew leader under this section, such other person and not the crew leader shall be treated as the employer of such individual; and such other person shall be treated as having paid cash remuneration to such individual in an amount equal to the amount of cash remuneration paid to each individual by the crew leader, either on his own behalf or on behalf of such other person, for the service in agricultural labor performed for such other person.  (c) For purposes of subsection (b) of section 8A the term ''crew leader'' means an individual who furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person, pays, either on his own behalf or on behalf of such other person, the individual so furnished by him for the service in agricultural labor performed by them, and has not entered into a written agreement with such other person under which such individual is designated as an employee of such other person.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 9 - Individuals Employed by Unit in Several Places

Section 9. All individuals employed by an employing unit in all of his or its several places of employment maintained within the commonwealth shall be treated as employed by a single employing unit for the purposes of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 11 - Ceasing to Be Subject to Statute on Application

Section 11. No employer shall cease to be subject to this chapter except upon a finding by the commissioner, after having made such investigation as he may deem necessary, that such employer has not on any day after the first day of the then last completed calendar year employed one or more individuals in employment subject to this chapter, whereupon such employer shall cease to be subject hereto as of January first of the year in which such finding is made.