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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147 - Employer's Permit; Person to Whom Materials or Articles May Be Delivered; Effect of Strike; Payment of Fees Into Treasury

Section 147. No materials for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework shall be delivered to any person in the commonwealth unless the employer so delivering them, or his agent if the employer is not a resident of or located within this commonwealth, has in his possession a valid permit issued by the attorney general under authority of this section, hereinafter and in sections one hundred and forty-seven A to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, called an employer's permit. Such permit shall be issued by the attorney general, may be renewed annually by him, and, subject to the last sentence of section one hundred and forty-five, shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Application for such permit shall be made in such form as the attorney general may from time to time by rule or regulation prescribe. No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered any materials or articles for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework to a person who is not in possession of a valid employer's permit, or a homeworker's certificate issued in accordance with this or the following section. The attorney general may revoke or suspend an employer's permit if he finds that the employer has violated any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, or has failed to observe or comply with any provision of his permit or has violated any rule or regulation adopted for control of industrial homework. No original permit shall be granted by the attorney general to any employer at whose plant there is a strike, and any permit so issued shall be revoked or suspended, unless the attorney general finds such strike to be unlawful under the provisions of paragraph (e) of section twenty C.
The attorney general shall collect a fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, for the original issuance of an employer's permit, and for each renewal of such permit plus an amount for each homeworker with whom the employer directly or indirectly had business relations during the preceding calendar year. Any such fees received by the attorney general shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147a - Homeworker's Certificate; Place of Work; Work Performed by Others; Qualifications of Applicant and Home; Strike Against Employer

Section 147A. No person shall engage in industrial homework within the commonwealth unless he has in his possession a valid certificate issued to him by the attorney general under authority of this section, hereinafter and in sections one hundred and forty-seven B to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, called a homeworker's certificate. Such certificate shall be issued by the attorney general without cost and shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Application for such certificate shall be made in such form as the attorney general may from time to time by rule or regulation prescribe. Such certificate shall be valid only for work performed by the applicant himself in his own home. No homeworker's certificate shall be issued to any person under the age of sixteen years, or to any person suffering from an infectious, contagious or communicable disease or living in a home that is not clean, sanitary and free from infectious, contagious or communicable disease. The attorney general may revoke or suspend any homeworker's certificate if he finds that the holder thereof is performing industrial homework contrary to the conditions under which the certificate was issued or in violation of any pertinent provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, or has permitted any person not holding a valid homeworker's certificate to assist him in performing his industrial homework.
No original certificate shall be granted by the attorney general to any person for work to be done for an employer at whose plant there is a strike, and any certificate so issued shall be revoked or suspended, unless the attorney general finds such strike to be unlawful under the provisions of paragraph (e) of section twenty C.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147b - Employer's Name and Address Affixed to Articles or Container of Goods Delivered for Homework

Section 147B. No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon by industrial homework unless there has been conspicuously affixed to each article or, if impossible so to affix, then to the package or other container in which such goods are delivered or are to be kept, a label or other mark of identification bearing the employer's name and address, printed or written legibly in English.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147c - Work in Violation of Statutes; Removal, Retention and Disposition of Articles; Notice

Section 147C. Any article which is being manufactured or worked upon in a home in violation of any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, may be removed by the attorney general or his authorized representative and may be retained by him until claimed by the employer. The attorney general shall give notice, by registered mail, of such removal to the person whose name and address are affixed to the article, package or container as provided in section one hundred and forty-seven B. Unless the article so removed is claimed within thirty days following the giving of such notice, it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147d - Record of Homeworkers and Work

Section 147D. No person in possession of an employer's permit shall deliver or receive, or cause to be delivered or received, any articles for or as a result of industrial homework unless he shall keep in such form, and forward to the attorney general at such intervals as the attorney general may by rule or regulation prescribe and on such blanks as he may provide, a record of all persons engaged in industrial homework on materials furnished or distributed, or caused to be furnished or distributed, by such person, of all places where such persons work, of all articles which such persons have manufactured or worked upon, the hours worked, of the gross cash wages received by each industrial homeworker.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147e - Regulations; Violations; Inspections and Investigations

Section 147E. The attorney general shall make rules and regulations for the enforcement of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, and to maintain existing wage, hour and other labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in the industry. Violation of any such rule or regulation shall be punished as provided in section one hundred and forty-seven G. The attorney general or his authorized representatives shall make all inspections and investigations necessary for the enforcement of said sections.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147f - Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Books and Papers; Summons and Court Order; Fees; Oaths; Depositions

Section 147F. In making any investigation or examination under authority of any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, the attorney general or his duly authorized representative may require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, contracts and documents relating thereto. Witnesses shall be summoned in the same manner and shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before the superior court in civil cases. The attorney general or any such representative may administer oaths to witnesses or take their affirmation. If any person summoned and paid as a witness refuses to attend, or to be sworn or to affirm, or to answer any question, or to produce any book, contract, document or paper pertinent to the matter before the attorney general or such representative, a justice of the supreme judicial or the superior court, upon application by said attorney general or such representative, may issue an order requiring such person to appear before said attorney general or representative, and to produce his books, contracts, documents and papers and to give evidence relating to the matter in question. Upon application by the attorney general or such representative, commissions to take depositions of persons without the commonwealth may be issued by a justice of the supreme judicial or the superior court, to be used in hearings before the attorney general or such representative, and all laws and rules relating to such commissions in civil actions shall apply to commissions issued hereunder.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147g - Additional Penalties

Section 147G. In addition to any penalties otherwise prescribed in sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, any employer or his agent who, without having in his possession a valid employer's permit, delivers or causes to be delivered to another person any materials for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework, or who refuses to allow the attorney general or his authorized representative to enter his place of business for the purpose of making any investigation authorized by any provision of said sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, or necessary to carry out any provision thereof, or who refuses to permit the attorney general or his authorized representative to inspect or copy the pay roll or other records or documents relating to the enforcement of said sections, or who falsifies such records or documents or any statement which he is required by the attorney general or said representative, acting under authority of said sections, to make, or who otherwise violates any provision of said sections or any provision of his permit, shall be punished by a fine of not less than three hundred nor more than three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 147h - Educational and Philanthropic Organizations; Homework Performed Under Supervision of Commission for the Blind

Section 147H. The provisions of sections one hundred and forty-three to one hundred and forty-seven G, inclusive, shall not apply to organizations incorporated in the commonwealth for educational or philanthropic purposes, or to homework performed under the supervision of the Massachusetts commission for the blind. Persons doing work for such organizations shall not be required to have a certificate to permit them to do such work.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 148a - Employees Seeking Rights Under Provisions of This Chapter; Discharge or Discrimination; Punishment

Section 148A. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of any action on the part of an employee to seek his or her rights under the wages and hours provisions of this chapter.
Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made a complaint to the attorney general or any other person, or assists the attorney general in any investigation under this chapter, or has instituted, or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this chapter, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceedings, shall have violated this section and shall be punished or shall be subject to a civil citation or order as provided in section 27C.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 148b - Persons Performing Service Not Authorized Under This Chapter Deemed Employees; Exception

Section 148B. (a) For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 151, an individual performing any service, except as authorized under this chapter, shall be considered to be an employee under those chapters unless:—
(1) the individual is free from control and direction in connection with the performance of the service, both under his contract for the performance of service and in fact; and
(2) the service is performed outside the usual course of the business of the employer; and,
(3) the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business of the same nature as that involved in the service performed.
(b) The failure to withhold federal or state income taxes or to pay unemployment compensation contributions or workers compensation premiums with respect to an individual's wages shall not be considered in making a determination under this section.
(c) An individual's exercise of the option to secure workers' compensation insurance with a carrier as a sole proprietor or partnership pursuant to subsection (4) of section 1 of chapter 152 shall not be considered in making a determination under this section.
(d) Whoever fails to properly classify an individual as an employee according to this section and in so doing fails to comply, in any respect, with chapter 149, or section 1, 1A, 1B, 2B, 15 or 19 of chapter 151, or chapter 62B, shall be punished and shall be subject to all of the criminal and civil remedies, including debarment, as provided in section 27C of this chapter. Whoever fails to properly classify an individual as an employee according to this section and in so doing violates chapter 152 shall be punished as provided in section 14 of said chapter 152 and shall be subject to all of the civil remedies, including debarment, provided in section 27C of this chapter. Any entity and the president and treasurer of a corporation and any officer or agent having the management of the corporation or entity shall be liable for violations of this section.
(e) Nothing in this section shall limit the availability of other remedies at law or in equity.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 148d - Earned Sick Time Outreach Program

Section 148D. The executive office of health and human services, in consultation with the attorney general, shall develop and implement a multilingual outreach program to inform employees, parents, and persons who are under the care of a health care provider about the availability of earned sick time under this section. This program shall include the distribution of notices and other written materials in English and in other languages to all child care and elder care providers, domestic violence shelters, schools, hospitals, community health centers, and other health care providers.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 149 - Summons and Warrant for Violations of Sec. 148

Section 149. A justice or clerk of a district court, or a trial justice, may upon the application of any employee issue a summons to an employer to appear and show cause why a warrant should not issue against him for a violation of section one hundred and forty-eight. Upon the return of such summons and after a hearing the justice may issue a warrant upon the complaint of any such employee.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 150 - Complaint for Violation of Certain Sections; Defenses; Payment After Complaint; Assignments; Loan of Wages to Employer; Civil Action

Section 150. The attorney general may make complaint or seek indictment against any person for a violation of section 148. On the trial no defence for failure to pay as required, other than the attachment of such wages by trustee process or a valid assignment thereof or a valid set-off against the same, or the absence of the employee from his regular place of labor at the time of payment, or an actual tender to such employee at the time of payment of the wages so earned by him, shall be valid. The defendant shall not set up as a defence a payment of wages after the bringing of the complaint. An assignment of future wages payable weekly under section one hundred and forty-eight shall not be valid if made to the person from whom such wages are to become due or to any person on his behalf, or if made or procured to be made to another person for the purpose of relieving the employer from the obligation to pay weekly. A loan made by an employee to his employer of wages which are payable weekly under section one hundred and forty-eight, whether made directly to the employer or to another person or persons on his behalf, shall not be valid as a defense on the trial of a complaint for failure to pay such wages weekly, unless such loan shall have been made with the approval of the attorney general.
An employee claiming to be aggrieved by a violation of sections 33E, 52E, 148, 148A, 148B, 148C, 150C, 152, 152A, 159C or 190 or section 19 of chapter 151 may, 90 days after the filing of a complaint with the attorney general, or sooner if the attorney general assents in writing, and within 3 years after the violation, institute and prosecute in his own name and on his own behalf, or for himself and for others similarly situated, a civil action for injunctive relief, for any damages incurred, and for any lost wages and other benefits; provided, however, that the 3 year limitation period shall be tolled from the date that the employee or a similarly situated employee files a complaint with the attorney general alleging a violation of any of these sections until the date that the attorney general issues a letter authorizing a private right of action or the date that an enforcement action by the attorney general becomes final. An employee so aggrieved who prevails in such an action shall be awarded treble damages, as liquidated damages, for any lost wages and other benefits and shall also be awarded the costs of the litigation and reasonable attorneys' fees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 150a - Notification of Deductions

Section 150A. Every person making a deduction from wages of any employee for social security, unemployment compensation benefits, pension, vacation or health and welfare funds, state taxes, federal taxes, dues check-off and credit unions and every person engaged in contracting or sub-contracting, highway or building construction projects or public works construction who is party to an agreement to make contributions for unemployment compensation benefits, pension, vacation or health and welfare funds, apprentice training programs, federal tax, state tax, dues check-off or contributions to a credit union for the benefit of any employee, or who is required to make such contributions to such funds or programs or payments directly to an employee under the provisions of section twenty-seven, and which contributions or payments are computed on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis, shall furnish each such employee a suitable pay slip, check stub or envelope, notifying such employee of the amount of each such deduction or contribution at the time of the payment of wages from which such deduction is made and in the case of a contribution at the time when such contribution is made; provided, however, that a new employee shall be notified in writing at the time of the first payment of his wages about the nature of such deduction or contribution; and provided, further, that each such employee shall be notified in writing at the initial time of any new deduction or contribution from the wages about the nature of such deductions and contributions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 150b - Fees or Assessments Other Than Those Chargeable Under Union Constitution and By-Laws

Section 150B. No labor union, or person acting in its behalf, shall require any person, as a condition of securing or continuing employment, to pay any fee or assessment other than such initiation fees, dues and assessments as are, by the constitution and by-laws of such union, chargeable upon members thereof. Any union or person violating any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 150c - Improper Expenditure of Withholdings or Deductions From Wages; Penalties

Section 150C. Any person having employees in his service who withholds or deducts wages from employees for the purpose of purchasing or contributing toward the purchase of a blanket or general policy of insurance pursuant to section one hundred and ten of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and who fails to purchase such coverage or keep such coverage in force shall be punished by one or any combination of the following: by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than six months, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, by being required to reimburse employees for any wages withheld or deducted that were not put toward the use for which they were withheld or deducted, or by being required to pay for all costs incurred by an employee that would have been paid for or reimbursed by insurance if such insurance coverage had been in force.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 152 - Deductions for Coming Late to Work

Section 152. There shall not be deducted from the wages of an employee in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or from the wages of a mechanic, workman or laborer, on account of the employee's coming late to work, a sum in excess of the proportionate wage which would have been earned during the time actually lost. Whoever violates this or the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 153 - Grading Work of Weavers; Imperfections Affecting Wages; Conditions Precedent to Fines

Section 153. No system used by manufacturers for grading the work of a weaver shall affect or lessen the wages of the weaver except for imperfections in his own work; and in no case shall the wages of those engaged in weaving be affected by fines or otherwise unless the imperfections complained of are first exhibited and pointed out to the person whose wages are to be affected; and a fine shall not be imposed upon any person for imperfect weaving unless this section is first complied with and the amount of the fines is agreed upon by both parties.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 154 - Employer's Fine Upon Weaver for Imperfections; Violations of Statutes

Section 154. No employer shall impose a fine upon an employee engaged at weaving for imperfections arising during the process of weaving. Whoever violates this or the preceding section shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 155 - Specifications as to Work and Wages for Weavers, Frame Tenders, Warpers, Web Drawers and Operatives Paid by the Pound

Section 155. The occupier or manager of every cotton factory shall supply to each person engaged as a weaver in said factory and paid by the piece, cut or yard a printed or written ticket with each warp which shall contain the following specifications as to the work to be done and wages paid: the number of cuts, the number of yards per cut or piece, the price per yard, cut or piece, the number of picks per inch and the number of reeds to the inch. Said occupier or manager shall also supply to each person engaged as a frame tender a specification of the number of roving and price per hank, and to each person engaged as a warper or web drawer a specification of the number of threads in the warp and the rate of compensation, and to each operative paid by the pound a specification of the price to be paid per pound; said specification shall be furnished in each case on a printed or written ticket within three days after said operative begins work.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 156 - Specifications and Tickets; Posting and Attaching; Contents; Pick Clocks; Excess of Maximum Lengths; Violation of Statute

Section 156. The occupier or manager of every textile factory shall post in every room where any employees work by the job, in legible writing or printing, and in sufficient numbers to be easily accessible to such employees, specifications of the character of each kind of work to be done by them, and the rate of compensation. Such specifications in the case of weaving rooms shall state the intended and maximum length of a cut or piece, the count per inch of reed, and the number of picks per inch, width of loom, width of cloth woven in the loom, and the price per cut or piece, or per pound; or, if payment is made per pick or per yard, the price per pick or per yard; and each warp shall bear a designating ticket or mark of identification; and in factories operating the looms on a piece rate basis pick clocks shall be placed on each loom, other than a gang loom, so called, in operation on work other than carpet weaving, linen fire hose weaving or elastic web weaving, and each weaver shall be paid according to the number of picks registered on said clock. In roving or spinning rooms, the number of roving or yarn and the price per hank for each size machine shall be stated; and each machine shall bear a ticket stating the number of the roving or yarn made upon it. In spooling rooms the boxes shall bear a ticket stating the number of pounds the box contains and the price per pound. The maximum length of a cut or piece shall not exceed its intended length by more than three per cent; but if it appears that a variation in excess of the amount hereinbefore set forth has been caused in whole or in part by any weaver in the employ of any person charged with the violation of this section, it shall be deemed a sufficient defence to a prosecution. The said specifications shall also contain a detailed schedule of the method of computation of the price of cotton or silk or mixed cotton and silk weaving to be paid by the said occupier or manager, and no particular in the specifications shall be expressed by means of symbols, but every particular shall be sufficiently clear and complete to enable the operative to determine readily the price payable for the cut or piece. Violation of any provision of this section shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars, for the second offence by a fine of two hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 157 - Violation of Sec. 155; Interference With Inspectors

Section 157. Violation of any provision of section one hundred and fifty-five shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. Whoever interferes with an inspector in the discharge of his duties in connection with the two preceding sections shall be punished as provided in this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 157a - Employees Paid by Piece; Tickets Stating Basis of Remuneration; Posting Statement of Amount of Pay Earned

Section 157A. Every person operating a factory or workshop shall supply to each employee therein who is paid by the piece, either at the time when such employee starts work or before the particular job or unit of work assigned to him is completed, and in any event before the day on which the next pay roll is calculated, a printed or written ticket, stating the basis of remuneration for the particular operation to be performed by such employee, or, in lieu of supplying such ticket, shall post in such factory or workshop within forty-eight hours after any such employee has completed any particular job or unit of work a statement showing the amount of pay earned thereon by such employee in addition to any hourly, daily or weekly rate, or by such other method as may be approved by the department of labor and workforce development, to which he may be entitled therefor.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 158 - Stopped Machinery; Deductions From Wages; Making Up Lost Time; Penalty

Section 158. Deductions shall not be made from the wages of persons paid by the day or hour, and employed in the manufacturing or mechanical establishments, while machinery is stopped, if said persons are refused the privilege of leaving the mill while the damage to said machinery is being repaired; and if they are detained in their workrooms during such time they shall not be compelled to make up time lost by such stopping unless compensated therefor at their regular rates of wages. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 159 - Discharge of Employee Without Notice

Section 159. A person engaged in manufacturing who requires from his employees, under penalty or forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by them, a notice of intention to leave such employ shall be liable to a like forfeiture, if, without similar notice, he discharges an employee.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 159b - Reimbursement of Expenses for Medical Examinations

Section 159B. Any employer who requests or requires a person who is a present or prospective employee to undergo a medical examination by a physician designated by the employer, as a condition to securing or continuing in employment, shall reimburse said person for the medical expenses requested or required.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 175 - Bells, Whistles and Gongs

Section 175. Manufacturers and others employing workmen may, for the purpose of giving notice to them, ring bells and use whistles and gongs of such size and weight and in such manner and at such hours as the aldermen or selectmen may designate in writing.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 176 - Non-Resident as Special Police Officer

Section 176. If, in an emergency, special police officers are appointed, under the name of police officers or any other name, to act as police officers for quelling a riot or disturbance or for protecting property, no non-resident of the commonwealth shall be so appointed unless he is a regular employee of the person whose property he is so appointed to protect.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 177 - Police Assistance in Protecting Property; Non-Residents Assisting With Arms; Liability in Damages

Section 177. A person may, if his property is in danger, call upon the regular police authorities in the commonwealth for assistance in its protection, and this and the preceding section shall not limit or diminish such right; but no person shall request or authorize any person or body of persons not residents of the commonwealth, except regular employees, to assist such person with arms in the defence of his property, and no such request or authority shall justify an assault or attack with arms by a non-resident. Whoever, being an employer of labor, requests or authorizes assistance in violation of this section, and whoever renders such assistance with arms, shall be severally liable in damages to each person injured in person or property thereby.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 177a - Contract Exempting Employer From Liability to Employee

Section 177A. No person shall, by a special contract with his employees, exempt himself from liability which he may be under to them for injuries suffered by them in their employment and resulting from the negligence of the employer or of a person in his employ.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 177b - Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians; Responding to Emergencies; Discharge From Other Employment

Section 177B. No employer shall discharge or take any other disciplinary action against any employee by reason of failure of such employee to report for work at the commencement of his regular working hours where such failure is due to his responding to an emergency in his capacity as a volunteer member of a fire department or ambulance department; provided, however, that no such employer shall be required to compensate any such employee for any period of his normal working hours during which for such reason he fails to report for work and at the request of an employer shall submit a statement signed by the chief of such fire department or ambulance department certifying the date and time such employee responded to and returned from such emergency. Such employee shall inform his employer or immediate supervisor of the reasons for such failure.
As used in this section, ''responding to an emergency'' shall mean responding to, working at the scene of or returning from a fire, rescue, emergency medical service call, hazardous materials incident or a natural or man-made disaster in the good faith belief that the action is necessary to prevent the imminent loss of life or property, where the emergency occurs during a period other than normal working hours of the employee. As used in this section, ''volunteer member'' shall mean a volunteer, call, reserve, or permanent-intermittent firefighter or emergency medical technician, but shall not include any person who received compensation for over nine hundred and seventy-five hours of services rendered in such capacity over the preceding six month period.
Any employee who is terminated or against whom any disciplinary action is taken in violation of the provisions of this section shall be immediately reinstated to his former position without reduction of pay, seniority or other benefits, and shall receive any lost pay or other benefits during any period for which such termination or other disciplinary action was in effect. An action to enforce the provisions of this section shall be commenced within one year of the date of the alleged violation, in the superior court within any county wherein the action occurred or wherein the employer resides or transacts business.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 178 - Leave of Absence From Work for Voting

Section 178. No owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment shall employ or permit to be employed therein any person entitled to vote at an election, during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in the voting precinct, ward or town in which such person is entitled to vote, if he shall make application for leave of absence during such period.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 178a - Payment of Wages of Intestate Employee; Officer or Employee of Commonwealth or Subdivision

Section 178A. Wages or salary not in excess of one hundred dollars, due an employee who dies intestate, may be paid by the employer if thirty days have elapsed since the death of the employee and neither a duly appointed executor or administrator nor a voluntary administrator has made written demand upon the employer for payment and the employer shall not otherwise have actual notice that proceedings relative to the formal or informal settlement of the estate of the employee have been commenced in any probate court, to the surviving husband or wife, or to an adult child of the deceased, or, if the employer is satisfied that there is no surviving husband or wife or adult child, to the surviving father or mother of such employee. Such payment shall be a full discharge of all obligations of the employer in respect to such wages or salary. The term ''employee'', as used in this section, shall not be construed to include an officer or employee of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 178c - Sum Owed Estate of Officer or Employee of Political Subdivisions Paid to Husband, Widow or Next of Kin

Section 178C. Whenever any officer or employee or former officer or employee of a political subdivision of the commonwealth other than a county, city or town, dies, and such subdivision owes his estate any sum or sums by reason of the terms of his employment, the aggregate amount of which does not exceed five hundred dollars, and neither a duly appointed executor or administrator nor a voluntary administrator has made written demand for payment upon the treasurer of such subdivision, and such treasurer does not otherwise have actual notice that proceedings relative to the formal or informal settlement of such estate have been commenced in any probate court, such sum or sums may, in the discretion of such treasurer, be paid after the expiration of one month from the death of such officer or employee to the husband, widow or next of kin of such officer or employee. Payments made as provided in this section shall discharge all liability of the subdivision to all persons with respect to such sum or sums.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 178e - Group Insurance; Disposition of Dividends

Section 178E. If a dividend is declared or a reduction in rate is made under any group insurance policy, the excess, if any, of the aggregate dividends or rate reductions under such policy and all other group insurance policies of the policyholder over the aggregate expenditure for insurance under such policies made from funds contributed by the policyholder, or by an employer of insured persons, or by a union or association to which insured persons belong, including expenditures made in connection with administration of such policies, shall be applied by the policyholder for the sole benefit of insured employees or members.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 179a - Preference to Citizens in Awarding Public Work Contracts; Violations

Section 179A. In the awarding of contracts for public work by the commonwealth or by a county, city or town or by persons contracting therewith to do such work, preference shall be given to persons who are citizens of the United States and to partnerships all of whose members are such citizens. Any person who knowingly and wilfully violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars. Nothing in this section shall require the acceptance of a higher bid in preference to a lower bid.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 179b - Notice to Commissioner of Commencement or Change of Location of Business; Violations

Section 179B. The owner of every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishment or industry in which twelve or more persons are employed shall, upon the commencement, or a change of location, of its operations within the commonwealth, give notice thereof to the commissioner of the department of career services in such form as the director of the department of labor standards shall prescribe. Whoever knowingly violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 179c - Collective Bargaining Agreements; Successor Clauses

Section 179C. Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization as defined in subsection (5) of section two of chapter one hundred and fifty A, contains a successor clause, such clause shall be binding upon and enforceable against any successor employer who succeeds to the contracting employer's business until the expiration date of the agreement stated in the agreement. No such successor clause shall be binding upon or enforceable against any successor employer for more than three years from the effective date of the collective bargaining agreement between the contracting employer and the labor organization.
As used in this section, ''successor employer'' means any purchaser, assignee or transferee of a business the employees of which are subject to a collective bargaining agreement, if such purchaser, assignee, or transferee conducts or will conduct substantially the same business operation, or offer the same service and use the same physical facilities, as the contracting employer.
This section shall not apply to a receiver or trustee in bankruptcy of any contracting employer who has gone into receivership or bankruptcy, nor to any employer who acquires a business from a receiver or trustee in bankruptcy nor to any employer which is a public entity, nor to any employer who is subject to the National Labor Relations Act or the Railway Labor Act.
An employer who is a party to a collective bargaining agreement containing a successor clause has the affirmative duty to disclose the existence of such agreement and such clause to any successor employer. Such disclosure requirements shall be satisfied by including in any contract of sale, agreement to purchase, or any similar instrument of conveyance, a statement that the successor employer is bound by such clause as provided for in the collective bargaining agreement.
The provisions of this section may be enforced in a civil action in the superior court division of the trial court or by a criminal action subject to the provisions of section one hundred and eighty or by both such civil and criminal actions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 181 - Retirement or Health and Welfare Funds; Failure of Employer to Make Payments

Section 181. It shall be unlawful for any employer who has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor organization or association of employees providing for payments to a health or welfare fund or pension fund or other such plan for the benefit of employees to fail to make the payments required by the terms of any such agreement. Any employer who willfully fails to make such payments within sixty days after they become due and payable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense. The term health or welfare fund or pension fund or other such plan for the benefit of employees includes any plan, trust or fund established by an employer organization, or by an employer and a labor organization or by an employer and an employee organization, the funds for which are derived in whole or in part from contributions by employers, and which exists for the purpose of paying or providing for employees or their families or dependents medical or hospital care, recreation facilities, pensions, annuities, benefits on retirement or death or unemployment of beneficiaries, severance pay, compensation for injuries or illness, insurance to provide any of the foregoing vacation or holiday benefits, apprenticeship training, or life insurance, disability or sickness or accident insurance.