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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:642. Setting minimum wage or employee benefits; prohibited

RS 23:642 - Setting minimum wage or employee benefits; prohibited
A.(1) The Legislature of Louisiana finds that economic stability and growth are among the most important factors affecting the general welfare of the people of this state and are, therefore, among its own most important responsibilities. Economic stability and growth contribute to the standard of living enjoyed by citizens as employment and income are both dependent on the ability and willingness of businesses to operate in the state.
(2) The legislature further finds that wages and employee benefits comprise the most significant expense of operating a business. It also recognizes that neither potential employees nor business patrons are likely to restrict themselves to employment opportunities or goods and services providers in any particular parish or municipality. Consequently, local variation in legally required minimum wage rates or mandatory, minimum number of vacation or sick leave days would threaten many businesses with a loss of employees to areas which require a higher minimum wage rate and many other businesses with the loss of patrons to areas which allow for a lower wage rate and more or less vacation or sick leave days. The net effect of this situation would be detrimental to the business environment of the state and to the citizens, businesses, and governments of the various local jurisdictions as well as the local labor market.
(3) The legislature concludes from these findings that, in order for a business to remain competitive and yet to attract and retain the highest possible caliber of employees, and thereby to remain sound, an enterprise must work in a uniform environment with respect to minimum wage rates and mandatory, minimum number of vacation or sick leave days. The net impact of local variation in mandated wages and mandatory, minimum number of vacation or sick leave days would be economic instability and decline and a decrease in the standard of living for the citizens of the state. Consequently, decisions regarding minimum wage and employee benefit policy must be made by the state so that consistency in the wage market is preserved.
B. Therefore, pursuant to the police powers ultimately reserved to the state by Article VI, Section 9 of the Constitution of Louisiana, no local governmental subdivision shall establish a mandatory, minimum number of vacation or sick leave days, whether paid or unpaid, or a minimum wage rate which a private employer would be required to pay or grant employees.
Acts 1997, No. 317, §1; Acts 2012, No. 667, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:651. Definitions

RS 23:651 - Definitions
(1) "Plan" shall mean any arrangement, agreement, contract, plan, system or trust whereby a participant acquires an enforceable right to retirement income or other compensation where payment is deferred until the termination of employment or thereafter, regardless of the method of calculating the amount of plan benefits or the mode of their distribution. Included in this definition are plans which provide pension, retirement, disability or death benefits and deferred compensation by employment, agency, trade union, stock bonus, stock ownership, stock option and profit sharing plans. The term plan shall also include employee pension benefit plans as defined by Section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 88 Stat. 829.
(2) "Benefit" shall mean anything of value payable or distributable to a participant, his spouse, a beneficiary, to a participant's estate or to any other person pursuant to the terms of the plan.
(3) "Beneficiary" shall mean any person, including the participant, entitled to receive benefits under a plan.
(4) "Participant" shall mean an employee or other person entitled to participate and participating or formerly participating in a plan.
(5) "Designation form" shall mean any document by which a plan permits a participant to name a beneficiary to receive plan benefits.
Added by Acts 1976, No. 494, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:652. Designation form

RS 23:652 - Designation form
(1) Any designation form permitted by a plan shall be valid for the purpose of naming a beneficiary, or selecting the mode of payment of plan benefits, or both.
(2) A designation form need not be in testamentary form, nor authentic form, nor in any form other than that permitted or required by the plan.
(3) As is provided by R.S. 23:638, benefits may be paid in reliance on a properly executed designation form until the payor receives notice of an adverse claim.
(4) The designation form shall remain in effect until revoked, terminated, amended or modified as provided by the plan. Unless otherwise specifically provided by the plan, a designation form is not deemed revoked, invalidated or otherwise affected by any act or occurrence which would have the effect of revoking, invalidating or otherwise affecting a will.
Added by Acts 1976, No. 494, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:653. Application

RS 23:653 - Application
The provisions of R.S. 23:651, R.S. 23:652, and R.S. 23:653 shall apply to designation forms executed before, on, or after the effective date, and does not invalidate any designation form executed prior to the effective date.
Added by Acts 1976, No. 494, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:662. Declaration of public policy

RS 23:662 - Declaration of public policy
The public policy of this state is that a woman who performs public service for the state is entitled to be paid the same compensation for her service as is paid to a man who performs the same kind, grade and quality of service, and a distinction in compensation may not be made because of sex.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:663. Definitions

RS 23:663 - Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the definitions ascribed in this Section unless the context indicates otherwise:
(1) "Commission" means the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights.
(2) "Employee" means any female individual who is employed to work forty or more hours a week and who is employed by the employer.
(3) "Employer" means any department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee or other organizational unit of the state.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:664. Prohibited acts

RS 23:664 - Prohibited acts
A. No employer may discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex by paying wages to an employee at a rate less than that paid within the same agency to another employee of a different sex for the same or substantially similar work on jobs in which the employee's performance requires equal skill, effort, education, and responsibility and that are performed under similar working conditions including time worked in the position.
B. Nothing in Subsection A of this Section shall prohibit the payment of different wage rates to employees when such payment is made pursuant to any of the following:
(1) A seniority system.
(2) A merit system.
(3) A system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production.
(4) A differential based on a bona fide factor other than sex, including but not limited to education, training, or experience, provided that both:
(a) The employer demonstrates that such factor is related to the job position in question.
(b) No alternative employment practice would serve the same legitimate business purpose without producing such a differential.
C. An employer who is paying wages in violation of this Chapter may not, in order to comply with this Chapter, reduce the wages of any other employee.
D. It shall be unlawful for an employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or attempt to exercise, any right provided under this Chapter. It shall be unlawful for any employer to discriminate, retaliate, or take any adverse employment action, including but not limited to termination or in any other manner discriminate against any employee for inquiring about, disclosing, comparing, or otherwise discussing the employee's wages or the wages of any other employee, or aiding or encouraging any other employee to exercise his or her rights under this Chapter.
E. It shall be unlawful for an employer subject to this Chapter to discriminate, retaliate, or take any adverse employment action, including but not limited to termination against an employee because, in exercising or attempting to exercise the employee's rights under this Chapter, such employee:
(1) Has filed any complaint or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding to enforce the employee's rights under this Chapter.
(2) Has provided or will provide any information in connection with any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right afforded to an employee pursuant to this Chapter.
(3) Has testified or will testify in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right afforded to an employee pursuant to this Chapter.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:665. Complaint procedure

RS 23:665 - Complaint procedure
A. An employee who in good faith believes that her employer is in violation of this Chapter shall submit written notice of the alleged violation to the employer. An employer who receives such written notice from an employee shall have sixty days from receipt of the notice to investigate the matter and remedy any violation of this Chapter. If an employer remedies the violation in a manner that complies with the statute and within the time provided herein, the employee may not bring any action against the employer pursuant to this Chapter except as provided in Subsections B and C of this Section.
B. If an employer fails to resolve the dispute to the satisfaction of such employee within the time provided herein, the employee may file a complaint with the commission requesting an investigation of the complaint pursuant to R.S. 51:2257.
C. If the commission finds evidence of discriminatory, retaliatory or other adverse employment action on the part of the employer in violation of this Chapter but is unable to resolve or mediate the dispute, or fails to render a decision as to the dispute, or issues a finding of no discrimination on the part of the employer, the employee may institute a civil suit in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1; Acts 2014, No. 702, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:666. Damages

RS 23:666 - Damages
A. An employer who violates the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to the affected employees in the amount of the employee's unpaid wages and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
B. The award of monetary relief shall be limited to those violations which have occurred within a thirty-six-month period prior to the employee's written notice to the employer, as required in R.S. 23:665(A).
C. In cases where suit is filed in the district court, no monetary relief may be awarded the employee for losses incurred between the date that the district court rendered its final judgment and the date upon which all appeals of that judgment have been exhausted.
D. Interim earnings by the employee discriminated against shall operate to reduce the monetary relief otherwise allowable under this Chapter.
E. Nothing in this Chapter prevents the settlement of a claim by agreement of the employer and employee for a lesser amount than the employee alleges the employee is due.
F. An employee found by a court to have brought a frivolous claim under this Chapter shall be held liable to the employer or any agent of the employer who was named a defendant in the suit, or both, for reasonable damages, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs incurred as a result of the claim.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:667. Limitation of actions

RS 23:667 - Limitation of actions
A. Any action filed in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court to recover unpaid wages or any other form of relief for a violation of this Chapter shall be commenced within one year of the date that an employee is aware or should have been aware that the employee's employer is in violation of this Chapter.
B. This one-year prescriptive period shall be suspended during the sixty-day period allowed the employer by this Chapter to respond to the employee's written notice, during the pendency of any administrative review or investigation of the employee's claim by the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights or the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or both.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1; Acts 2014, No. 702, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:668. Records to be kept by employers

RS 23:668 - Records to be kept by employers
An employer subject to this Chapter shall create and preserve records reflecting the name, address, and position of each employee, and all wages paid to each employee. These records shall be preserved for a period of not less than three years from the employee's last date of employment with the employer.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:669. Supplemental application

RS 23:669 - Supplemental application
This Chapter is supplemental and is not intended to supercede any provision provided for in Chapter 3-A of this Title, the "Louisiana Employment Discrimination Act", which prohibits discrimination based upon sex regardless of whether the employer is a state entity, a private business, or other employer.
Acts 2013, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:691. Maximum interest rate; penalty for violations

RS 23:691 - Maximum interest rate; penalty for violations
No person shall, whether for his own account or for that of any other person, advance money to any one of his employees at a greater rate of interest than eight percent per annum. This provision shall not apply to financial institutions that are subject to R.S. 6:289. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than three months, or both.
Acts 2001, No. 814, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:731. Assignment of earnings

RS 23:731 - Assignment of earnings
A. A voluntary sale, transfer, or assignment of earnings executed by a person is not enforceable against his employer unless the employer consents thereto in writing. However, if the sale, transfer, or assignment is for the purpose of fulfilling a current or past due support obligation, or both, upon written notice by personal or domiciliary service or by registered or certified mail it shall be enforceable against a present or future employer without the employer's consent thereto.
B. Should there be a prior judgment, decree, order, or sentence of court, or a sale, transfer, or assignment against the person's earnings, upon written notice of that fact given by the employer, it shall become the duty of the party seeking to enforce the subsequent support obligation to obtain a ranking of the respective obligations from the appropriate court to insure that the maximum deduction from earnings will not be exceeded.
C. No person shall be discharged from employment nor denied employment because of a voluntary assignment or a single garnishment of earnings. Any person so discharged shall have a right to reinstatement and back pay, but shall not have a right to damages. Any person denied employment solely because of a voluntary assignment or garnishment of wages shall have a right to reasonable damages. A person may, however, be discharged from employment if his earnings are subjected to three or more garnishments for unrelated debts in a two year period, but no garnishment resulting from an accident or illness causing a person to miss ten or more consecutive days at work shall be considered for purpose of this provision.
Added by Acts 1952, No. 135, §1. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 812, §6, eff. Aug. 2, 1981; Acts 1981, Ex.Sess., No. 36, §9, eff. Nov. 19, 1981; Acts 1982, No. 536, §1; Acts 1983, No. 204, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:821. Definitions

RS 23:821 - Definitions
When used in Parts I and II of this Chapter, and for the purposes thereof:
(1) A case shall be held to involve or to grow out of a labor dispute when the case involves persons who are engaged in a single industry, trade, craft, or occupation, or who are employees of one employer, or who are members of the same or an affiliated organization of employers or employees, whether such dispute is (1) between one or more employers or associations of employers and one or more employees or associations of employees, or (2) between one or more employers or associations of employers, or (3) between one or more employees or associations of employees and one or more employees or associations of employees; or (4) when the case involves any conflicting or competing interests in a "labor dispute", as hereinafter defined, of "persons participating or interested" therein, as hereinafter defined.
(2) A person or association shall be held to be a person participating or interested in a labor dispute if relief is sought against him and if he is engaged in the industry, trade, craft, or occupation in which such dispute occurs, or is a member, officer, or agent of any association of employers or employees engaged in such industry, trade, craft, or occupation.
(3) The term "labor dispute" includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, or concerning employment relations, or any other controversy arising out of the respective interests of employer and employee, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:822. Freedom of organization and other activities; declaration of policy

RS 23:822 - Freedom of organization and other activities; declaration of policy
In the interpretation and application of this Chapter, the public policy of this state is declared as follows:
Negotiation of terms and conditions of labor should result from voluntary agreement between employer and employee. Governmental authority has permitted and encouraged employers to organize in the corporate and other forms of capital control. In dealing with such employers the individual unorganized worker is helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment. Therefore, it is necessary that the individual workman have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:823. Labor organizations; contracts in restraint of membership contrary to public policy

RS 23:823 - Labor organizations; contracts in restraint of membership contrary to public policy
Every undertaking or promise made, whether written or oral, express or implied, constituting or contained in any arrangement or proposed arrangement of hiring or employment, whether for a definite term or terminable at the will of either of the parties thereto, whereby:
(1) Either party thereto undertakes or promises to join or to remain a member of some specific labor organization or organizations or to join or remain a member of some specific employer organization or any employer organization or organizations; or
(2) Either party thereto undertakes or promises not to join or not to remain a member of some specific labor organization or any labor organization or organizations, or of some specific employer organization or any employer organization or organizations; or
(3) Either party thereto undertakes or promises that he will withdraw from an employment relation in the event that he joins or remains a member of some specific labor organization or any labor organization or organizations, or of some specific employer organization or any employer organization or organizations;
is declared to be contrary to public policy and shall not afford any basis for the granting of legal or equitable relief by any court against a party to such undertaking or promise, or against any other person who may advise, urge, or induce, without fraud, violence, or threat thereof, either party thereto to act in disregard of such undertaking or promise.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:824. Coercion of employees regarding membership in labor organizations; penalty

RS 23:824 - Coercion of employees regarding membership in labor organizations; penalty
Any individual, or any officer, agent or employee of any firm, association, or corporation who coerces, requires, demands, or influences any person to enter into any agreement, either written, verbal, or implied, not to join or become or remain a member of any labor organization or association, as a condition of such person securing employment or continuing in the employment of such individual, firm, association or corporation, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:841. Injunctions; limitation on courts' authority to issue

RS 23:841 - Injunctions; limitation on courts' authority to issue
No court shall issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction which in specific or general terms prohibits any person or persons from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:
(1) Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment regardless of any promise, undertaking, contract or agreement to do such work or to remain in such employment;
(2) Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization or of any employer organization, regardless of any such undertaking or promise as is described in R.S. 23:823;
(3) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person any strike or unemployment benefits or insurance or other moneys or things of value;
(4) Aiding any person by any lawful means, who is being proceeded against in, or is prosecuting any action or suit in any court of the United States or of any state;
(5) Giving publicity to and obtaining or communicating information regarding the existence of, or the facts involved in, any dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling any public street or any place where persons may lawfully be, without intimidation or coercion, or by any other method not involving fraud, violence, breach of the peace, or threat thereof;
(6) Ceasing to patronize or to employ any person or persons;
(7) Assembling peaceably to do or to organize to do any of the acts heretofore specified or to promote lawful interests;
(8) Advising or notifying any person or persons of an intention to do any of the acts heretofore specified;
(9) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do any of the acts heretofore specified;
(10) Advising, urging, or inducing without fraud, violence, or threat thereof, others to do the acts heretofore specified, regardless of any such undertaking or promise as is described in R.S. 23:823;
(11) Doing in concert of any or all the acts heretofore specified on the ground that the persons engaged therein constitute an unlawful combination or conspiracy.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:842. Responsibility for unlawful acts

RS 23:842 - Responsibility for unlawful acts
No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, as these terms are herein defined, shall be held responsible or liable in any civil action, or in any criminal prosecution, for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon proof by the weight of evidence and without the aid of any presumptions of law or fact, of the doing of such acts by persons who are officers, members or agents of any such association or organization and the ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof, by such association or organization.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:843. Injunctive relief; declaration of policy regarding procedure for granting

RS 23:843 - Injunctive relief; declaration of policy regarding procedure for granting
In the interpretation and application of R.S. 23:844 through 23:847, the public policy of this State is declared as follows:
Legal procedure that permits a complaining party to obtain sweeping injunctive relief that is not preceded by or conditioned upon notice to and hearing of the responding party or parties, or that issues after hearing based upon written affidavits alone and not wholly or in part upon examination, confrontation and cross-examination of witnesses in open court, is peculiarly subject to abuse in labor litigation for the reasons that:
(1) The status quo cannot be maintained but is necessarily altered by the injunction;
(2) Determination of issues of veracity and of probability of fact from affidavits of the opposing parties that are contradictory, and, under the circumstances, untrustworthy rather than from oral examination in open court is subject to grave error;
(3) Error in issuing the injunctive relief is usually irreparable to the opposing party; and
(4) Delay incident to the normal course of appellate practice frequently makes ultimate correction of error in law or in fact unavailing in the particular case.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:845. Failure of complainant to attempt settlement of disputes; effect on right to injunctive relief

RS 23:845 - Failure of complainant to attempt settlement of disputes; effect on right to injunctive relief
No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law which is involved in the labor dispute in question, or who has failed to make every reasonable effort to settle such dispute either by negotiation or with the aid of any available machinery of governmental mediation or voluntary arbitration, but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require the court to await the action of any such tribunal if irreparable injury is threatened.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:846. Findings of fact as basis for injunctive relief; persons affected

RS 23:846 - Findings of fact as basis for injunctive relief; persons affected
No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the basis of findings of fact made and filed by the court in the record of the case prior to the issuance of such restraining order or injunction; and every restraining order or injunction granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute shall include only a prohibition of such specific act or acts as may be expressly complained of in the petition filed in such case and expressly included in the findings of fact made and filed by the court as provided herein. The restraining order, or temporary or permanent injunction shall be binding only upon the parties to the suit, their agents, servants, employees and attorneys, or those in active concert and participation with them, and who shall by personal service or otherwise have received actual notice of the same.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:847. Appeals from cases involving temporary injunctions; hearing by preference

RS 23:847 - Appeals from cases involving temporary injunctions; hearing by preference
Whenever any court shall issue or deny any temporary injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, the court shall, upon the request of any party to the proceedings, and on his filing the usual bond for costs, forthwith certify the entire record of the case, including a transcript of the evidence taken, to the appropriate appellate court for its review. Upon the filing of such record in the appropriate appellate court, the appeal shall be heard with the greatest possible expedition, giving the proceeding precedence over all other matters except older matters of the same character.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:848. Contempt proceedings; rights of accused

RS 23:848 - Contempt proceedings; rights of accused
In all cases where a person shall be charged with indirect contempt for violation of a restraining order or injunction issued by a court under this Part, the accused shall enjoy:
(1) The rights as to admission to bail that are accorded to persons accused of crime;
(2) The right to be notified of the accusation and a reasonable time to make a defense, provided the alleged contempt is not committed in the immediate view or presence of the court;
(3) The right to remove the said proceeding to the criminal docket for a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of five from the judicial district wherein the contempt shall have been committed, provided that this requirement shall not be construed to apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice or to apply to the misbehavior, misconduct, or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect to the writs, orders, or process of the court; and
(4) The right to file with the court a demand for the retirement of the judge sitting in the proceeding, if the contempt arises from an attack upon the character or conduct of such judge and if the attack occurred otherwise than in open court. Upon the filing of any such demand the judge shall thereupon proceed no further, but another judge shall be designated by the presiding judge of the court. The demand shall be filed prior to the hearing in the contempt proceeding.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:849. Punishment for contempt

RS 23:849 - Punishment for contempt
The punishment for contempt under R.S. 23:848, may be by fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding fifteen days, or both. Where a person is committed to jail, for the nonpayment of the fine he must be discharged at the expiration of fifteen days; but where he is also committed for a definite time, the fifteen days must be computed from the expiration of the definite time.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:881. Definition

RS 23:881 - Definition
As used in this Part, the term "agricultural laborers" means only those persons employed in the ginning processing cotton seed and compressing of cotton, the irrigation, harvesting, drying and milling of rice, the sowing, tending, reaping or harvesting of crops, livestock, or other agricultural products on farms and plantations or those persons employed in the processing of raw sugar cane into brown sugar where such persons or their employees are not directly connected or concerned with any operation to further process such cane; except that those persons working for the raisers of such cane may process sugar beyond the brown sugar stage for such raisers and still remain within the definition of agricultural laborers but except as provided above, such term does not include persons employed in mills, plants, factories, wholesale or retail sales outlets, or otherwise in the transportation, storage, preparation, processing or sale of such crops, livestock or produce, except for transportation by the grower of rice from the field to the mill, or initial storage warehouse, for transportation of cotton by the grower from the field to the gin, or for transportation of sugar cane by the grower from the field to the mill at which the cane is to be initially processed, and for the transportation of cotton seed from the gin to the mill.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:882. Declaration of public policy

RS 23:882 - Declaration of public policy
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of Louisiana that the right to work of an agricultural laborer as defined herein shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:883. Membership of agricultural laborers in labor organization as condition of employment, illegality

RS 23:883 - Membership of agricultural laborers in labor organization as condition of employment, illegality
Any express or implied agreement or understanding, or practice between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby any agricultural laborer not a member of such union or organization shall be denied the right to work for an employer, or whereby such membership is made a condition of employment or continuation of employment by such employer or whereby any such union or organization acquires an employment monopoly of agricultural laborers, is hereby declared to be an illegal combination or conspiracy against public policy.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:884. Agreements to violate provisions of law; lockouts or other conduct to force violation of law

RS 23:884 - Agreements to violate provisions of law; lockouts or other conduct to force violation of law
A. Any express or implied agreement, understanding, or practice which is designed to cause or require, or has the effect of causing or requiring, any employer, whether or not a party thereto, to violate any provisions of this Part is hereby declared an illegal agreement, understanding, or practice and contrary to public policy.
B. Any person, firm, association, corporation, or labor union or organization engaged in lockouts, lay-offs, boycotts, picketing, work stoppages, slowdowns, or other conduct, a purpose or effect of which is to cause, force, persuade or induce any other person, firm, association, corporation, or labor union or organization to violate any provisions of this Part shall be guilty of illegal conduct contrary to the public policy as stated in this Part.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:885. Illegal conditions of employment of agricultural laborers

RS 23:885 - Illegal conditions of employment of agricultural laborers
A. No agricultural laborer shall be required by an employer to become or remain a member of any labor union or labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment by such employer.
B. No agricultural laborer shall be required by an employer to abstain or refrain from membership in any labor union or labor organization as a condition of employment or a continuation of employment.
C. No employer shall require any agricultural laborer, as a condition of employment or continuation of employment, to pay any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind to any labor union or labor organization.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:886. Damages for denying employment in violation of law

RS 23:886 - Damages for denying employment in violation of law
Any agricultural laborer who may be denied employment or be deprived of continuation of his employment in violation of this Part, shall be entitled to recover in solido from any other person, firm, corporation, association, or labor organization so violating this Part, or acting in concert with such violator, by appropriate action in the courts of this state, such actual damages as he may have sustained by reason of such denial or deprivation of employment.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §6.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:887. Injunctive relief

RS 23:887 - Injunctive relief
Any employer, person, firm, association, corporation, labor union or organization injured as a result of any violation or threatened violation of any provision of this Part or threatened with any such violation shall be entitled to injunctive relief in the manner provided by the injunction law of this state applicable to general civil matters, presently R.S. 13:4061-13:4071, against any and all violators or persons threatening violation.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §7.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:888. Right to collective bargaining not impaired

RS 23:888 - Right to collective bargaining not impaired
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to deny or abridge the right of agricultural laborers by and through a labor organization or labor union to bargain collectively with their employer.
Acts 1956, No. 397, §8.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:891. Deposit to guarantee faithful performance; interest paid by employer

RS 23:891 - Deposit to guarantee faithful performance; interest paid by employer
Every person doing business in this State who requires of his employees a cash deposit as a guarantee for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon them, shall pay to such employee in cash, interest at the rate of not less than four per cent per annum on the cash sum so deposited.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:893. Volunteer firefighters; leave without loss of pay, benefits, or employment

RS 23:893 - Volunteer firefighters; leave without loss of pay, benefits, or employment
No certified volunteer firefighter employed by the state of Louisiana shall be denied leave, work-related benefits, or employment for absenting himself from said employment for the purpose of emergency response pursuant to such certification. An emergency shall be an unexpected occurrence that threatens life or property to which an established volunteer fire department or fire protection district responds while the certified volunteer firefighter is engaged in the normal course of state employment and to which the certified volunteer firefighter employed by the state of Louisiana may timely respond to utilize skills which enhance the preservation of life and property.
Acts 1999, No. 509, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1051, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:894. Physician employed for employees; election or appointment by employees

RS 23:894 - Physician employed for employees; election or appointment by employees
The physician employed to do the practice for the employees on any work, public or private, wherein more than ten persons are employed, shall be elected or appointed by the employees themselves, at elections to be held once each year, or whenever a vacancy may occur. Any persons, employed on the said work for a period of two weeks prior to the election and who has paid fees for the said physician, shall be qualified to vote.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:895. Physician's compensation; amounts collected from employees; penalty for unlawful disposition

RS 23:895 - Physician's compensation; amounts collected from employees; penalty for unlawful disposition
It is unlawful for any employer to retain more than ten per cent of any moneys collected from the employees for physician's fees as a remuneration for his services or otherwise, or to pay to the physician employed less than ninety per cent of the amount actually collected from the employees for the said purpose. The provisions of this Section and of R.S. 23:894 shall not apply to any person who contributes toward the maintenance of a conveniently located hospital or whose employees are cared for in such hospitals and are given free service therein.
Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:896. Removal of tenants or laborers or their effects from premises without owner's consent; penalty

RS 23:896 - Removal of tenants or laborers or their effects from premises without owner's consent; penalty
It shall be unlawful for any person, except in the discharge of a civil or military order, to go on the premises or plantations of any citizen of this State, in the night time or between sunset and sunrise, and move or assist in moving any laborer or tenant or the effects or property of any laborer or tenant therefrom, without the consent of the owner or proprietor of the said premises or plantation.
Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:898. Transportation of strikebreakers prohibited; penalty

RS 23:898 - Transportation of strikebreakers prohibited; penalty
It is unlawful to transport or cause to be transported from without the State of Louisiana into this state any person who is employed or is to be employed for the purpose of obstructing or interfering by force or threats with
(1) Peaceful picketing by employees during any labor controversy affecting wages, hours, or conditions of labor; or
(2) The exercise by employees of any of the rights of self-organization or collective bargaining.
Whoever wilfully violates or aids or abets any person in violating the provisions of this Section and any person who is knowingly transported in or travels into the State of Louisiana from without for any of the purposes enumerated in this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than five months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:900. Definitions

RS 23:900 - Definitions
As used in R.S. 23:900 through R.S. 23:904, the following terms shall have the definitions ascribed below unless the context indicates otherwise:
(1) "Strike". Any concerted act of the employees in a lawful refusal of the employees to perform work, or services for the employer, provided such acts are not recognized as unlawful under Louisiana state and federal law, and if the employees are represented by a labor organization, that the said labor organization shall have approved or sanctioned the act.
(2) "Lockout". A refusal by an employer to permit his employees to work as a result of a dispute with such employees that affects wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment of said employees, provided, however, that a lockout shall not include a termination of employment for reasons deemed proper under Louisiana state and federal law.
(3) "Employer". A person, firm or corporation who employs any employee to perform services for a wage or salary and includes any person, firm or corporation acting as an agent of any employer, directly or indirectly.
(4) "Employee". Any person who performs services for wages or salary under a contract of employment, express or implied, for an employer.
(5) "Labor organization". Any organization of any kind or any agency or employee representation committee or plan in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work.
Acts 1962, No. 365, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:901. Persons or firms not directly involved in strike or lockout; hiring or recruiting of replacement workers prohibited; exceptions

RS 23:901 - Persons or firms not directly involved in strike or lockout; hiring or recruiting of replacement workers prohibited; exceptions
A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, not directly involved in a labor strike or lockout, to hire or recruit for employment any person, or to secure or offer to secure for any person any employment, when the purpose or effect of such hiring, recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment, is to have such person or another person take the place in employment of the striking employee in a business or industry where a labor strike or a lockout exists.
B. This Section does not apply to services or work performed by a person, firm, or corporation in his or its usual trade, occupation or business, provided that such trade, occupation or business is not usually the furnishing of strikebreakers in any labor strike or lockout and provided further that the said person, firm or corporation hiring, recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment is, if a person or an unincorporated firm, a bona fide resident of the state of Louisiana for a period of one year prior to the strike or lockout, or if a corporation, chartered or duly licensed to do business in the state of Louisiana for a period of one year prior to the strike or lockout.
Acts 1962, No. 365, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:902. Importation of replacement workers prohibited

RS 23:902 - Importation of replacement workers prohibited
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation not directly involved in a labor strike or lockout, to import or bring into Louisiana, or to send or transport into Louisiana, or to arrange for or cause such importation or transportation into Louisiana, of any person for the purpose of such person taking the place in employment of the striking employee in a business or industry where a labor strike or a lockout exists.
Acts 1962, No. 365, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:903. Penalties

RS 23:903 - Penalties
Any person violating the provisions of R.S. 23:900-23:904 shall be fined not more than one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Acts 1962, No. 365, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation › §23:904. Agricultural pursuits exempt

RS 23:904 - Agricultural pursuits exempt
R.S. 23:900 through R.S. 23:903 shall not apply to farming, agricultural pursuits, or the handling or primary processing of perishable raw agricultural commodities, or to those engaged therein.
Acts 1962, No. 365, §4.