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NH Rev Stat § 273-C:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:2 - Definitions.

    273-C:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Board" means the public employee labor relations board established under RSA 273-A:2.||II. "Employee" means any person employed by an employer, as defined in RSA 273-C:2, IV, except persons in a probationary or temporary status, or employed irregularly or on call. For the purposes of this chapter, however, no employee shall be determined to be in a probationary status who shall have been employed for more than 12 months or who has an individual contract with his employer.||III. "Employee organization" means any organization certified as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit by the board under this chapter.||IV. "Employer" means an employing unit which is engaged in dog or horse racing, or both, and is licensed to operate a race track under RSA 284 and which, in the current calendar year, has or had employees.||V. "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in work predominantly intellectual and varied in character, involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment, and requiring knowledge in a discipline customarily acquired in a formal program of advanced study.||VI. "Terms and conditions of employment" means wages, hours and other conditions of employment, other than managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the employer. The phrase "managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the employer" shall be construed to include, but shall not be limited to, the function, programs, operations, and methods of the employer and its business, including the use of the technology, the organizational structure of the employer, the scheduling of racing days, events, and racing seasons, the selection, direction and number of its personnel, including employees, and other matters of management imposed upon or delegated to the employer by statute or rule, including without limitation, RSA 284, as it may be amended and the rules of the lottery commission, in order to continue control of the race track and its business by the employer.|||Source. 1990, 214:1. 2008, 25:1, eff. July 11, 2008. 2015, 276:127, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:3 - Jurisdiction.

    273-C:3 Jurisdiction. –||The board shall have jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of this chapter, over employers and employees as defined in RSA 273-C:2, who, but for an express declination by the federal National Labor Relations Board to exercise jurisdiction, would be regulated by that federal board.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:4 - Obligation to Bargain.

    273-C:4 Obligation to Bargain. –||It is the obligation of the employer and the employee organization certified by the board as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit to negotiate in good faith. "Good faith" negotiation involves meeting at reasonable times and places in an effort to reach agreement on the terms of employment, but the obligation to negotiate in good faith shall not compel either party to agree to a proposal or to make a concession.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:5 - Grievance Procedures.

    273-C:5 Grievance Procedures. –||Every agreement negotiated under the terms of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and shall contain workable grievance procedures.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:6 - Unfair Labor Practices Prohibited.

    273-C:6 Unfair Labor Practices Prohibited. –||I. It shall be a prohibited practice for any employer:||(a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with its employees in the exercise of the rights conferred by this chapter.||(b) To dominate or to interfere in the formation or administration of any employee organization.||(c) To discriminate in the hiring or tenure, or the terms and conditions of employment of its employees for the purpose of encouraging or discouraging membership in any employee organization.||(d) To discharge or otherwise discriminate against any employee because he has filed a complaint, affidavit or petition, or given information or testimony under this chapter.||(e) To refuse to negotiate in good faith with the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit.||(f) To invoke a lockout during the term of the existing agreement.||(g) To fail to comply with this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter.||(h) To breach a collective bargaining agreement.||II. It shall be a prohibited practice for the exclusive representative of any employee:||(a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with employees in the exercise of their rights under this chapter.||(b) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with employers in their selection of agents to represent them in collective bargaining negotiations or the settlement of grievances.||(c) To cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against an employee in violation of RSA 273-C:6, I(c), or to discriminate against any employee whose membership in an employee organization has been denied or terminated for reasons other than failure to pay membership dues.||(d) To refuse to negotiate in good faith with the employer.||(e) To engage in a strike or other form of job action during the term of the existing agreement.||(f) To breach a collective bargaining agreement.||(g) To fail to comply with this chapter or any rule adopted hereunder.||III. This section shall apply only to prohibited practices which occur or arise on or after the effective date of this section.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:7 - Violations.

    273-C:7 Violations. –||I. The board shall have primary and exclusive jurisdiction of all violations of RSA 273-C:6.||II. Complaints shall be filed by affidavit. A copy of the complaint shall be given to the party complained against at the time the complaint is filed. The board shall hold a hearing within 45 days under rules adopted by the board pursuant to RSA 541-A and shall give 5 working days' notice of the hearing by certified mail to all persons required to appear and to the representative of a party against whom a complaint has been filed.||III. The board may issue a cease and desist order if it deems one necessary in the public interest, pending the hearing.||IV. The board shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents by the issuance of subpoenas, and to take testimony under oath, as provided in RSA 516, and may delegate such powers to any persons it may appoint.||V. Both parties shall have the right to be represented by counsel.||VI. The board shall render its decision within 45 days after the hearing, in accordance with rules adopted by the board pursuant to RSA 541-A. Upon finding that a party has violated RSA 273-C:6, the board may (a) issue a cease and desist order; (b) order reinstatement of an employee with back pay; (c) require periodic reporting of compliance; (d) order payment of the costs incurred by a party negotiating in good faith in negotiations found by the board to have been carried on not in good faith by the other party, if the board finds such penalty appropriate to the circumstances; or (e) order such other relief as the board may deem necessary, but in no event shall the board have the authority to void an existing collective bargaining agreement.||VII. The board shall summarily dismiss any complaint of an alleged violation of RSA 273-C:6 which occurred more than 180 days prior to the filing of the complaint with the board.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:8 - Injunctions.

    273-C:8 Injunctions. –||The board shall petition the superior court for the county in which the party sought to be enjoined is principally located for such order of the court as may be necessary to compel obedience to an order of the board and the superior court shall issue its order upon satisfying itself that:||I. The order of the board was within its jurisdiction to issue; and||II. There is substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole to support the finding of the board.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:9 - Determining Bargaining Unit.

    273-C:9 Determining Bargaining Unit. –||I. The board or its designee shall determine the appropriate bargaining unit and shall certify the exclusive representative thereof when petitioned to do so under RSA 273-C:10. In making its determination the board should take into consideration the principle of community of interest. The community of interest may be exhibited by one or more of the following criteria, although it is not limited to such:||(a) Employees with the same conditions of employment.||(b) Employees with a history of workable and acceptable collective negotiations.||(c) Employees in the same historic craft or profession.||(d) Employees functioning within the same organizational unit.||II. The board may certify a bargaining unit composed of professional and non-professional employees only if both the professional and non-professional employees, voting separately, vote to join the proposed bargaining unit. Persons exercising supervisory authority involving the significant exercise of discretion may not belong to the same bargaining unit as the employees they supervise.||III. In the event the bargaining unit is determined by the board's designee, the decision may be appealed to the board for final determination.||IV. The bargaining unit or units in effect for employees as of the effective date of this section shall be deemed to be the bargaining unit or bargaining units determined by the board. The exclusive representative of the bargaining unit or bargaining units in effect on the effective date of this section shall be deemed certified by the board.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:11 - Representation Rights of the Bargaining Unit.

    273-C:11 Representation Rights of the Bargaining Unit. –||I. Employers shall extend the following rights to the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit certified under RSA 273-C:10 or as set forth in RSA 273-C:9, IV:||(a) The right to represent employees in collective bargaining negotiations and in the settlement of grievances. An individual employee may present an oral grievance to his employer without the intervention of the exclusive representative. Until the grievance is reduced to writing, the exclusive representative shall be excluded from a hearing if the employee so requests; but any resolution of the grievance shall not be inconsistent with the terms of an existing agreement between the parties.||(b) The right to represent the bargaining unit exclusively and without challenge during the term of the collective bargaining agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an election may be held not more than 180 nor less than 120 days prior to the date on which the term of the collective bargaining agreement expires.||II. A reasonable number of employees who act as representatives of the bargaining unit shall be given a reasonable opportunity to meet with the employer or his representatives during working hours without loss of compensation or benefits.||III. The exclusive representative of a bargaining unit acting as such on the effective date of this section shall be deemed certified by the board in accordance with RSA 273-C:9, IV and shall have all the rights established in RSA 273-C:11, I.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:12 - Rulemaking; Conduct of Studies.

    273-C:12 Rulemaking;  Conduct of Studies. –||The board may adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, relative to carrying out the provisions of this chapter and may conduct such studies as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:13 - Appeals.

    273-C:13 Appeals. –||Any person aggrieved by a final order of the board granting or denying in whole or in part the relief sought may obtain review of such order in the manner prescribed in RSA 541.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:14 - Records and Reports.

    273-C:14 Records and Reports. –||I. A copy of all agreements reached as a result of collective bargaining under this chapter shall be filed with the board by the parties within 14 days after execution of such an agreement.||II. All documents and records of the board shall be public records and shall be kept for a minimum of 10 years.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:1 - Unlicensed.

    274:1 Unlicensed. –||Whoever, without a license therefor, establishes or keeps an intelligence office for the purpose of obtaining or giving information concerning places of employment for servants or other laborers, or for the purpose of procuring or giving information concerning such persons for or to employers, or for the purpose of procuring or giving information concerning employment in business, shall be fined $10 for each day such office is so kept.|||Source. 1901, 60:1. PL 179:1. RL 217:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:2 - Power to License.

    274:2 Power to License. –||The mayor and aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town may, for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, grant licenses to suitable persons, subject to the provisions hereof, and may revoke the same at pleasure.|||Source. 1901, 60:2. PL 179:2. RL 217:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:3 - Licenses.

    274:3 Licenses. –||Licenses granted to keepers of intelligence offices shall be signed by the clerk of the city or town in which they are granted, and every such license shall be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, before being delivered to the licensee. Such license shall set forth the name of the person licensed, the nature of the business and the building or place in which it is to be carried on, and shall continue in force until May first next ensuing, unless sooner revoked.|||Source. 1901, 60:3. PL 179:3. RL 217:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:4 - Fee.

    274:4 Fee. –||The board issuing such a license shall receive for the use of the city or town for each license such sum, not less than $2, as the board shall deem reasonable.|||Source. 1901, 60:4. PL 179:4. RL 217:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:5 - Effect.

    274:5 Effect. –||No license issued as aforesaid shall be valid to protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license, unless consent to removal is granted by the mayor and aldermen or selectmen.|||Source. 1901, 60:6. PL 179:5. RL 217:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:6 - Revocation.

    274:6 Revocation. –||When such license is revoked, such clerk shall note the revocation upon the face of the record of the license, and shall give written notice to the holder thereof by delivering the same to him in person or leaving it at the place of business designated in the license.|||Source. 1901, 60:7. PL 179:6. RL 217:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 274:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 274 - Employment Offices|Section 274:7 - Repealed by 1991, 296:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1991.

    274:7 Repealed by 1991, 296:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1991. –|
NH Rev Stat § 275:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:1 - Union Membership.

    275:1 Union Membership. –||No person shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any person into an agreement, either written or verbal, not to join or become a member of any labor organization, as a condition of securing or continuing in any employment.|||Source. 1913, 208:1. PL 176:29. RL 212:21. 1947, 195:1 par. 21. 1949, 57:1, eff. Mar. 11, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 275:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:2 - Penalty.

    275:2 Penalty. –||Whoever violates any provision of RSA 275:1 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1913, 208:2. PL 176:30. RL 212:22. RSA 275:2. 1973, 528:162, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 275:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:3 - Payment for Medical Examination or Records Furnished.

    275:3 Payment for Medical Examination or Records Furnished. –||It shall be unlawful for any employer, as defined in RSA 275:4, to require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination or the cost of furnishing any records required by the employer as a condition of employment.|||Source. 1951, 125:1, eff. May 29, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 275:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:4 - Definition of Terms.

    275:4 Definition of Terms. –||I. The term "employer" as used in the preceding section shall mean and include an individual, a partnership, an association, a corporation, a legal representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, and any common carrier by rail, motor, water, air or express company doing business in or operating within the state. A franchisor is only an employer if the franchisor agrees in writing to assume the role of employer or co-employer of the franchisee or the employee of the franchisee.||I-a. For the purposes of this section, "franchisee" and "franchisor" have the same meanings as in section 436.1 of title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations.||II. In this subdivision, "employee" means and includes every person who may be permitted, required, or directed by any employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment, but shall not include any person exempted from the definition of employee as stated in RSA 281-A:2, VI(b)(2), (3), or (4), or RSA 281-A:2, VII(b), or a person providing services as part of a residential placement for individuals with developmental, acquired, or emotional disabilities, or any person who meets all of the following criteria:||(a) The person possesses or has applied for a federal employer identification number or social security number, or in the alternative, has agreed in writing to carry out the responsibilities imposed on employers under this chapter.||(b) The person has control and discretion over the means and manner of performance of the work, in that the result of the work, rather than the means or manner by which the work is performed, is the primary element bargained for by the employer.||(c) The person has control over the time when the work is performed, and the time of performance is not dictated by the employer. However, this shall not prohibit the employer from reaching an agreement with the person as to completion schedule, range of work hours, and maximum number of work hours to be provided by the person, and in the case of entertainment, the time such entertainment is to be presented.||(d) The person hires and pays the person's assistants, if any, and to the extent such assistants are employees, supervises the details of the assistants' work.||(e) The person holds himself or herself out to be in business for himself or herself or is registered with the state as a business and the person has continuing or recurring business liabilities or obligations.||(f) The person is responsible for satisfactory completion of work and may be held contractually responsible for failure to complete the work.||(g) The person is not required to work exclusively for the employer.|||Source. 1951, 125:2. 1999, 279:1. 2007, 362:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2008. 2012, 139:1, eff. Aug. 6, 2012. 2017, 255:1, eff. July 18, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 275:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:5 - Penalty.

    275:5 Penalty. –||Any employer who violates the provisions of RSA 275:3 or RSA 275:4 shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person. It shall be the duty of the labor commissioner to enforce the provisions hereof.|||Source. 1951, 125:3. RSA 275:5. 1957, 187:15. 1973, 530:42, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 275:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:6 - Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000.

    275:6 Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000. –|
NH Rev Stat § 275:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:7 - Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000.

    275:7 Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000. –|
NH Rev Stat § 275:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:8 - Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000.

    275:8 Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000. –|
NH Rev Stat § 275:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:9 - Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000.

    275:9 Repealed by 2000, 38:1, eff. June 6, 2000. –|
NH Rev Stat § 275:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 275 - Protective Legislation|Section 275:10 - Advances to Laborers.

    275:10 Advances to Laborers. –||Whoever enters into an agreement to labor for another in any lumbering operation or in driving logs, and in consideration thereof receives any advance of goods, money or transportation, and without cause fails to enter into said employment as agreed and labor for a sufficient length of time to reimburse his employer for said advances and expenses of transportation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1917, 3:1. PL 176:35. RL 212:27. RSA 275:10. 1973, 528:164, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|