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MA Gen L ch 149a § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 12 - Regulations and Procedures

Section 12. The inspector general shall promulgate regulations and procedures to implement sections 1 to 11, inclusive. In preparing the regulations and procedures, the inspector general shall, at a minimum, consult with the Associated General Contractors, the Associated Subcontractors of Massachusetts, the Boston Society of Architects, the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, the exempt agencies as identified in subsection (d) of section 4, and other parties considered necessary to promulgate the regulations and procedures.
MA Gen L ch 149a § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 13 - Review; Report

Section 13. Not later than 5 years after the effective date of this chapter, the inspector general shall undertake and complete a review for the purpose of describing the experience of public agencies that utilized construction manager at risk services. The review shall serve as the basis for a report to be submitted by the inspector general to the joint committee on state administration, the clerk of the house of representatives, and to the clerk of the senate not later than October 1, 2009. The report shall also include legislative recommendations, if any.
MA Gen L ch 149a § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 14 - Design Build Contracts

Section 14. Notwithstanding section 39M of chapter 30, for each contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling or repair of a public works project by an awarding authority and estimated by the awarding authority to cost not less than $5,000,000, the awarding authority may utilize design build for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling or repair of any public works project pursuant to this section and sections 15 to 21, inclusive; but, before using the design build, the awarding authority shall seek the approval of the inspector general pursuant to section 16.
MA Gen L ch 149a § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 18 - Design Professional; Scope of Work Statement

Section 18. Before issuing an RFQ pursuant to section 17, the awarding authority shall contract for the duration of the 2 phase selection process with a design professional to provide technical advice and professional expertise to the awarding authority; but, in retaining the services of a design professional the awarding authority may utilize the services of a design professional already in the employ of the awarding authority, or if the awarding authority does not already have in its employ the design professional, the awarding authority shall procure the services of a design professional pursuant to sections 38A.5 to 38O, inclusive, of chapter 7.  After the awarding authority has retained a design professional, the awarding authority shall develop with the assistance of the design professional a scope of work statement that defines the public works project and provides prospective design build entities with sufficient information regarding the awarding authority's objectives and requirements. The scope of work statement shall include criteria and preliminary design, general budget parameters, and general schedule requirements to enable prospective design build entities to submit proposals in response to the RFP issued pursuant to section 19.  Once the awarding authority has developed a scope of work statement that adequately defines the awarding authority's objectives and requirements for the public works project, the awarding authority may develop and issue a draft RFP at the same time and in the same manner as issuing an RFQ pursuant to section 17. Design build entities receiving a draft RFP may submit written comments on the draft RFP to the awarding authority at the same time as submitting a response to the RFQ issued pursuant to section 4. The awarding authority may, at its sole discretion, incorporate written comments received from design build entities within the final RFP and may provide to design build entities prequalified to submit a proposal the final RFP pursuant to section 6.  The design professional retained to provide technical assistance and consulting services to the awarding authority shall not be eligible to participate in any way as a member of the design build entities competing for the award of the design build contract.
MA Gen L ch 149a § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 19 - Design Build Contracts; Request for Proposals; Bid Deposit

Section 19. The awarding authority shall issue an RFP to each design build entity that has been prequalified to receive an RFP pursuant to section 17. In addition to identifying the date by which the RFP is to be submitted to the awarding authority, the following requirements shall apply to an RFP issued pursuant to this section, unless noted otherwise:  (1) The RFP shall set forth a detailed scope of work including design concepts, technical requirements, performance criteria, construction requirements, time constraints and all other requirements that have a substantial impact on the cost, schedule and quality of the public works project and the project development process, as determined by the awarding authority.  (2) The RFP shall include the criteria for evaluating and ranking proposals.  (3) The RFP shall identify the cost basis, low-bid or best value, by which the awarding authority will evaluate proposals submitted in response to said RFP. For projects to be awarded on a best-value basis, the scoring process, quality criteria and relative weight thereof must be contained in the RFP.  (4) At the awarding authority's discretion, the RFP may provide for a process, including the establishment of a team, to review conceptual technical submittals before full proposal submittal for the purposes of identifying defects that would cause rejection of the proposal as non-responsive.  (5) All such technical conceptual submittals and responses shall remain confidential until after the award of the contract.  (6) The RFP shall require that every response shall be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check on, or a treasurer's or cashier's check issued by, a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the awarding authority. The amount of such bid deposit shall be 5 per cent of the value of the bid. Any person submitting a bid under this section shall, on such bid, certify as follows:  The undersigned certifies under penalties of perjury that this bid is in all respects bona fide, fair and made without collusion or fraud with any other person. As used in this paragraph the word ''person'' shall mean any natural person, joint venture, partnership, corporation or other business or legal entity.  ___  (Name of person signing bid)  ___  (Company)  The RFP may provide for a stipend upon terms specified in the RFP to unsuccessful proposers that submit proposals that conform to the requirements of the RFP; but, the awarding authority may only use ideas and designs contained in non-successful proposals if a stipend, as defined in the RFP, is paid to the proposer.
MA Gen L ch 149a § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149a - Public Construction Alternative Delivery Methods|Section 21 - Regulations and Guidelines for Design Build Contracts

Section 21. The inspector general shall promulgate regulations and guidelines to implement sections 14 to 20, inclusive. In preparing said regulations and guidelines, the inspector general shall, at a minimum, consult with the Construction Industries of Massachusetts, the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Massachusetts Municipal Association, the National Association of Minority Contractors, New England Chapter, the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, the exempt agencies as identified in subsection (d) of section 4, and other parties whose input is would be helpful in promulgating said regulations and guidelines.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 1 - Board of Conciliation and Arbitration; Duties

Section 1. The board of conciliation and arbitration, in this chapter called the board, shall perform the duties required by this chapter, and any other general or special law.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 2 - Rules and Regulations; Filing; Report

Section 2. The chairman of the board of conciliation and arbitration shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the performance of responsibilities and powers set forth in the General Laws and any special laws; provided, however, that said chairman shall file a copy of any rules and regulations or amendments thereto with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives who, with the approval of the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, shall refer such rules and regulations to an appropriate committee of the general court. Within thirty days after such filing the appropriate committee of the general court shall hold a hearing on such regulations and shall issue a report and file a copy with the board of conciliation and arbitration. Said board shall consider such report and make revisions in the regulations as it deems appropriate in view of such report and shall forthwith file a copy of the final rules and regulations with the chairman of the committee of the general court to which the rules and regulations were referred.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 3 - Controversies, Strikes or Lockouts

Section 3. The mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town, having knowledge that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened or has actually occurred therein, shall at once give notice to the board. Notice may be given by the employer or by the employees concerned in the controversy, strike or lockout. When the board has knowledge that a strike or lockout, which involves an employer and his present or former employees, is seriously threatened or has actually occurred, the board shall, as soon as may be, communicate with such employer and employees and endeavor by mediation to obtain an amicable settlement, or endeavor to persuade them to submit the controversy to a local board of conciliation and arbitration established under section nine or to the board. If a settlement is not agreed upon and the parties refuse to submit the matter in dispute to arbitration, the board shall investigate the cause of such controversy and ascertain which of the parties thereto is mainly responsible or blameworthy for the existence or continuance of the same, and shall, unless a settlement of the controversy is reached, make and publish a report finding such cause and assigning such responsibility or blame. The board may employ agents to assist in said investigation. It shall, upon the request of the governor, investigate and report upon a controversy if in his opinion it seriously affects or threatens seriously to affect the public welfare. The board shall have the same powers for the foregoing purpose as are given to it by sections five to eight, inclusive. The board shall by publication or otherwise inform employers and employees of their duty to give notice to the board before resorting to a strike or lockout and of the provisions of this chapter affecting the rights of employers and employees relative to industrial disputes.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 4 - Advertising or Soliciting for Employees During Normal Business After a Strike or Labor Trouble; Determination of Question

Section 4. The provisions of sections twenty-two and twenty-three of chapter one hundred and forty-nine relative to advertising during strikes shall cease to be operative when the board shall determine that the business of the employer, in respect to which the strike or other labor trouble occurred, is being carried on in the normal and usual manner and to the normal and usual extent. Upon the application of the employer, this question shall be determined by said board, but only after a full hearing at which all persons involved shall be entitled to be heard and represented by counsel. The board shall give at least three days' notice of the hearing to the strikers and employees by publication in at least three daily newspapers published in the commonwealth, and by mailing a copy of said notice, postage prepaid, to the employers and to the accredited representatives of the strikers or workmen interested, when their addresses are known; and in every case the board shall make every reasonable and diligent effort to give notice to said strikers or interested workmen.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 5 - Controversies; Inquiry as to Cause; Advice as to Adjustment; Decision; Publication; Effect

Section 5. If a controversy exists between an employer and his employees, the board shall, upon application as provided in the following section, as soon as practicable visit the place where the controversy exists and make careful inquiry into its cause, and may, with the consent of the governor, conduct such inquiry outside the commonwealth. The board shall hear all persons interested who come before it, advise the respective parties what ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said controversy, and make a written decision thereof which shall at once be made public, shall be open to public inspection and shall be recorded by the board. A short statement thereof may, in the discretion of the board, be published in the annual report, and the board shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the clerk of the city or town in which said business is carried on. Said decision shall for six months be binding upon the parties who join in said application, unless by agreement of both parties it is stipulated in the application that the contract is to run for a longer period of time, in which event the decision of the board will be binding for the length of time agreed upon by both parties in their application.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 7 - Expert Assistants to Board

Section 7. In all controversies in which application is made under the preceding section, each party may, in writing, nominate fit persons to act in the case as expert assistants to the board, and the board may appoint one from among the persons so nominated by each party. Said experts shall be skilled in and conversant with the business or trade concerning which the controversy exists; they shall be sworn by a member of the board to the faithful performance of their official duties, and a record of their oath shall be made in the case. Said experts shall, if required, attend the sessions of the board, and under its direction shall obtain and report information concerning the wages paid and the methods and grades of work prevailing in establishments within the commonwealth similar to that in which the controversy exists, and they may submit to the board at any time before a final decision any facts, advice, arguments or suggestions which they may consider applicable to the case. No decision of said board shall be announced in a case in which said experts have acted without notice to them of a time and place for a final conference on the matters included in the proposed decision. Such experts shall receive from the commonwealth a sum not exceeding thirty dollars each for every day of actual service and their necessary traveling expenses. The board may appoint such additional experts as it considers necessary, who shall be qualified in like manner and, under the direction of the board, shall perform like duties and be paid the same fees as the experts who are nominated by the parties.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 8 - Witnesses and Production of Books and Documents; Powers of Board Member; Amount Due for Travel and Attendance

Section 8. In all investigations, and inquiries or proceedings conducted by the board, any member thereof may summon witnesses, may administer oaths, take testimony, and require the production of books and documents. Each witness shall certify in writing the amount of his travel and attendance, and the amount due to him shall be paid forthwith by the board.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 9 - Local Boards; Composition; Powers and Duties; Jurisdiction; Decision; Compensation

Section 9. The parties to any controversy described in section five may submit it in writing to a local board of conciliation and arbitration, which may be composed either of three members mutually agreed upon, or of a member chosen by the employer, a member chosen by the employees or their authorized representative, and a third, who shall be chairman, chosen by the other two. Such local board shall have and exercise, relative to matters referred to it, all the powers of the state board, and its decision shall have such binding effect as may be agreed upon in the written submission. Such local board shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the controversy submitted to it, but it may ask the advice and assistance of the state board. The decision of such local board shall be rendered within ten days after the close of any hearing held by it, and shall forthwith be filed with the clerk of the city or town where the controversy arose, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded by said clerk to the state board. Each of such arbitrators shall be entitled to receive from the treasury of the city or town where the controversy arose, with the approval in writing of the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town, the sum of fifteen dollars for each day of actual service, not exceeding fifty dollars for any one arbitration.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 10 - Annual Report by Chairman

Section 10. The chairman of the board of conciliation and arbitration shall make an annual report of the actions of the board.
MA Gen L ch 150 § 10a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150 - Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes|Section 10a - Mediators; Confidential Information

Section 10A. Any person acting as a mediator in a labor dispute, including any person acting as such pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, who receives information as a mediator relating to the labor dispute shall not be required to reveal such information received by him in the course of mediation in any administrative, civil or arbitration proceeding. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any criminal proceedings.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 3 - Rights of Employees

Section 3. Employees, or a single employee in a one-man unit, shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. An employee shall also have the right to refrain from any such activities, except to the extent of making payment of service fees to an exclusive representative.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 3a - Domestic Service Employee Defined; Violations; Discharge; Presumption; Damages; Costs

Section 3A. Anything contained in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding as regards sections one, two, three, four (1), four (4), ten, eleven and twelve, the term ''employee'' shall include any individual, over the age of seventeen, employed in the domestic service of any family or person at his home for not less than sixteen hours per week. In the event of a violation of section four (1) or four (4) by an employer of any such individual, the department of labor relations shall have all necessary and appropriate powers to conduct an investigation of such violation. The discharge of any such individual, within three months after the making of a report or complaint of any violation of section four (1) or four (4), known to the employer, shall create a rebuttable presumption that such discharge is a reprisal against such individual. In such case, the employer of such individual shall be liable for damages which shall not be less than one month's wages nor more than two months' wages of such individual, and the costs of the suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.