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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-407 - Objection to Rates Filed; Hearing; Ruling; Judicial Review.

27-4-407. Objection to rates filed; hearing; ruling; judicial review.
(a) At any time within fifteen (15) days after publication and notification of wage determinations under W.S. 27-4-406, any affected person may object in writing to the determination or part thereof by filing a written notice with the director, stating the specific grounds of the objection. The written objection shall be a public record and available for inspection by any person who may be affected.
(b) Within ten (10) days of the receipt of the objection, the director shall set a date for a hearing on the objection. The date for the hearing shall be within thirty (30) days of the receipt of the objection. Written notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be given to the objectors at least five (5) days prior to the date set for the hearing.
(c) The director may hear each written objection separately or consolidate for hearing any two (2) or more written objections. At the hearing the department shall introduce in evidence the methodology it used and any other facts which were considered at the time of the original determination which formed the basis for its determination. The department or any objectors thereafter may introduce evidence which is material to the issues. In no case shall the department be required to disclose any payroll data or survey data which was used in making a determination under W.S. 27-4-406 which can be used to identify any individual employer.
(d) Within ten (10) days of the conclusion of the hearing, the director shall rule on the written objections and make a final determination as the evidence warrants. Immediately upon a final determination, the director shall serve a certified copy upon on all parties to the proceedings by personal service or by registered mail.
(e) The final decision of the director of the prevailing wages in the locality shall be subject to review in accordance with the provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. All proceedings in any district court affecting a determination of the director shall have priority in hearing and determination over all other civil proceedings pending in the court, except election contests.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-408 - Director's Finding Final Unless Reviewed; Payments in Excess of Prevailing Rate Not Prohibited; Hours of Work Not Limited.

27-4-408. Director's finding final unless reviewed; payments in excess of prevailing rate not prohibited; hours of work not limited.
The findings of the director ascertaining and declaring the prevailing hourly rate of wages shall be final for the locality, unless reviewed as provided by law. Nothing in this act, however, shall be construed to prohibit the payment to any workman employed on any public work of a sum exceeding the prevailing hourly rate of wages. Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the hours of work which may be performed by any workman in any particular period of time.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-410 - Records of Contractors.

27-4-410. Records of contractors.
The contractor and each subcontractor or the officer of the public body in charge of the project shall keep an accurate record showing the names and occupations of all workmen employed by them, in connection with the public work, and showing also the actual wages paid to each of the workmen, which record shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the director or the public body awarding the contract, its officers and agents.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-411 - Workman's Right to Recover Difference in Wages.

27-4-411. Workman's right to recover difference in wages.
Any workman who shall be paid for his services a sum less than the stipulated rates for work done under the contract, shall have a right of action for whatever difference there may be between the amount so paid and the rates provided by the contract, and shall be entitled to a reasonable attorney fee if successful.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-412 - Penalty for Violations.

27-4-412. Penalty for violations.
Any officer, agent or representative of any public body who willfully violates, or omits to comply with any of the provisions of this act, and any contractor or subcontractor, or agent or representative thereof, doing public work who intentionally or willfully neglects to keep an accurate record of the names, occupation and actual wages paid to each workman employed by him, in connection with the public work, or who intentionally or willfully refuses to allow access to same at any reasonable hour to any person authorized to inspect same under this act, or who intentionally or willfully has failed to pay the prevailing hourly rate of wages, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment when convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 4 - Prevailing Wages › Section 27-4-413 - Inapplicability and Exemptions.

27-4-413. Inapplicability and exemptions.
The provisions of W.S. 27-4-401 through 27-4-413, are not applicable where in conflict with federal statutes, rules or regulations relating to prevailing wage determinations. All work and labor performed by prisoners, patients and other inmates of state penal, correctional and charitable institutions and city or county jails, are exempt from the provisions of this act. All work and labor performed by workmen regularly employed by the public body are exempt from the provisions of W.S. 27-4-401 through 27-4-413 if the cost of construction does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-501 - Definitions.

27-4-501. Definitions.
(a) Whenever used in this act:
(i) "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, labor organization, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, employing any person;
(ii) "Employee" means any person who, under the usual common law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of an employee;
(iii) "Wages" means compensation, including fringe benefits, for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission, or other basis, but does not include the value of vacation leave accrued at the date of termination if the written policies of the employer provide that accrued vacation is forfeited upon termination of employment and the written policies are acknowledged in writing by the employee;
(iv) "Department" means the department of workforce services;
(v) "This act" means W.S. 27-4-501 through 27-4-508.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-502 - Claims for Unpaid Wages; Anti-Retaliation.

27-4-502. Claims for unpaid wages; anti-retaliation.
(a) The department is hereby empowered to take claims for unpaid wages under the provisions of W.S. 27-4-101 and 27-4-104. The department in taking a claim for unpaid wages as provided for in this act is not to exceed the maximum amount specified in section 507(a)(4) of title 11, United States Code for claims arising out of bankruptcy or two (2) months wages for any claims not arising out of bankruptcy, per employee per wage claim.
(b) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discharge, harass, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because the employee filed a claim for unpaid wages or made any other complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this act or testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this act. Any employer who violates the provisions of this subsection shall be liable for legal or equitable relief as may be appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this act including continued employment, reinstatement, promotion and the payment of wages lost and an additional equal amount as liquidated damages.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-504 - Investigation and Determination of Unpaid Wage Claims; Hearing; Orders; Collection of Unpaid Wages.

27-4-504. Investigation and determination of unpaid wage claims; hearing; orders; collection of unpaid wages.
(a) Upon receipt of a written claim for unpaid wages, the department shall process, investigate and determine the validity of the claim.
(b) If either the employer or employee is aggrieved by the department's determination, the aggrieved party may request a fair hearing. The aggrieved party must file a written request for hearing within fifteen (15) calendar days of receipt of the department's determination. Upon receipt of a timely submitted request for hearing, the director shall appoint an independent hearing officer to conduct the fair hearing between the employer and employee. The fair hearing shall be conducted pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. The hearing officer's determination shall constitute the director's final agency action.
(c) Upon a finding by the hearing officer that the unpaid wage claim is valid and either the time for judicial review has passed or the decision has been affirmed by final judicial review, the department shall order the employer to pay the amount of unpaid wages due. The department's order is not appealable or subject to judicial review. The department shall, with the assistance of the county attorney, initiate legal proceedings to collect the unpaid wages in the court having jurisdiction based on the total amount of unpaid wages due.
(d) An employer's failure to comply with a department's order is punishable by a civil fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each day the employer fails to comply with the order.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-505 - County Attorney to Assist in Collection of Unpaid Wages.

27-4-505. County attorney to assist in collection of unpaid wages.
In suits commenced under this act where the employer failed to comply with the department's order to pay the unpaid wages due, the department shall refer the matter to the appropriate county attorney for enforcement of the department's order.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-506 - Limitation on Attempts to Make Payment of Wages Collected; Unclaimed Wages.

27-4-506. Limitation on attempts to make payment of wages collected; unclaimed wages.
The department shall attempt for a period of not less than four (4) months from the date of the collection, to make payments of wages collected under this act to the persons entitled to the wages. Wages collected by the department which remain unclaimed for a period of more than four (4) months from the date of collection, shall be unclaimed property for purposes of W.S. 34-24-101 through 34-24-140.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-507 - Tips and Gratuities; Unlawful to Pay Lower Wage Than That Agreed Upon; Unlawful to Fraudulently Fail to Pay Fringe Benefits Agreed Upon.

27-4-507. Tips and gratuities; unlawful to pay lower wage than that agreed upon; unlawful to fraudulently fail to pay fringe benefits agreed upon.
(a) Tips and gratuities received by an employee or employees shall be the sole property of such employee or employees and not payable in whole or in part to the employer or any other person.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any employer to pay to any employee a lower wage, salary, or compensation than that provided for or agreed upon by (1) a collective bargaining agreement; (2) a contract between the employer and employee. In no event shall a collective bargaining agreement or a contract provide for compensation lower than any applicable existing statute of this state.
(c) Whenever an employer has agreed with any employee or his agent to provide or make payments to a health or welfare fund, pension fund, vacation plan, apprenticeship program, or other such employment benefits, it shall be unlawful for said employer to willfully, or with intent to defraud, fail to make the payments required by the terms of any such agreement.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 4 - Wages › Article 5 - Collection of Unpaid Wages › Section 27-4-508 - Agreements for Reciprocal Enforcement; of Claim to Another State.

27-4-508. Agreements for reciprocal enforcement; of claim to another state.
(a) The department is hereby empowered to enter into agreements with agencies of other states or the federal government for the reciprocal enforcement and collection of wage claims if those states have a statute authorizing the same.
(b) In the event the department has taken a wage claim for collection and the employer against which the claim has been filed has moved to another state, the department may refer the claim with the written approval of the employee to the proper agency of the other state for collection, provided that there is in existence at the time a reciprocal agreement with the state for the collection of claims. The department is also authorized to accept claims from other states for collection of wages from employers who have removed to Wyoming.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 5 - Hours of Labor › Section 27-5-101 - State and County Employees; Overtime Compensation.

27-5-101. State and county employees; overtime compensation.
(a) The period of employment of state and county employees is eight (8) hours per day and forty (40) hours per week which constitute a lawful day's and week's work respectively.
(b) Except for employees whose maximum salary is remitted by statute, any state or county employee may be compensated at a rate one and one-half (1 1/2) times their regular compensation for each hour of service required to be performed in excess of eight (8) hours per day and forty (40) hours per week. If overtime compensation is paid pursuant to this section, no additional benefits, including compensatory time off, shall be allowed to the employee receiving the overtime compensation.
(c) Overtime compensation may only be authorized by the appropriate employing governing body subject to the following:
(i) For employees of the executive branch of state government, pursuant to rules and regulations of the human resources division of the department of administration and information. The human resources division shall specify what employees may receive overtime compensation, may require notification of an intent to pay overtime compensation preceding rendering of the additional services, and may prescribe any other limitations deemed desirable;
(ii) For employees of the legislative branch of state government, pursuant to rules and regulations of the management council of the legislative service office or resolution of the legislature;
(iii) For employees of the judicial branch of state government, pursuant to rules and regulations of the Wyoming supreme court;
(iv) For county employees, pursuant to rules and regulations of the respective boards of county commissioners.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 5 - Hours of Labor › Section 27-5-102 - Working Day; Mines Generally.

27-5-102. Working day; mines generally.
(a) The lawful working day in all underground mines is eight (8) hours per day, except:
(i) In case of emergency;
(ii) By mutual agreement between an employer and employee or employees' representative for a longer period of employment, but not to exceed sixteen (16) hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 5 - Hours of Labor › Section 27-5-108 - Punitive Action Prohibited; Penalty.

27-5-108. Punitive action prohibited; penalty.
Any employer who takes or threatens punitive action against any employee who refuses to work more than eight (8) hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period, except as provided by W.S. 27-5-102, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provided by W.S. 27-5-110.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 5 - Hours of Labor › Section 27-5-109 - Definitions.

27-5-109. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Emergency" means any condition which, if not corrected immediately, will jeopardize:
(A) Human life; or
(B) Property.
(ii) "Employer" means any owner, lessee, agent, operator or manager of any underground mine;
(iii) "Punitive action" means to discharge, suspend or reprimand or threaten to discharge, suspend or reprimand, or diminish or threaten to diminish in any way any person's position or salary for refusing to work more than eight (8) hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period, in other than an emergency situation;
(iv) "Working day" means eight (8) hours of employment in any twenty-four (24) hour period;
(v) "This act" means W.S. 27-5-102, 27-5-108, 27-5-109 and 27-5-110.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 5 - Hours of Labor › Section 27-5-110 - Penalties.

27-5-110. Penalties.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, for each offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-107 - Children; Proof of Age Required; Prohibited Employment.

27-6-107. Children; proof of age required; prohibited employment.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ, permit or allow any child under the age of fourteen (14) years to work at any gainful occupation except farm, domestic or lawn and yard service. To ensure that a child is of proper age to be employed under this section, every person, firm or corporation employing a child under sixteen (16) years of age shall procure and have on file where the child is employed, a form of proof of age as required under W.S. 27-6-108; provided however that under no circumstances shall any child under sixteen (16) years of age be employed in any occupation listed in W.S. 27-6-112 or in any occupation declared by the department of workforce services to be hazardous for children under sixteen (16) years of age.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-108 - Children; Proof of Age Required; Inspection and Form.

27-6-108. Children; proof of age required; inspection and form.
(a) The proof of age required by W.S. 27-6-107 shall be made available for inspection by any official charged with the enforcement of laws regulating the employment of minors. The acceptable forms of proof of age include the following:
(i) A duly attested birth certificate;
(ii) A properly prepared immigration and naturalization form I-9 showing the age of the child; or
(iii) Any other document showing the age of the child as approved by the department of workforce services.
(b) Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 182, 2.
(c) Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 182, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-110 - Children; Hours of Labor.

27-6-110. Children; hours of labor.
(a) No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation except farm or domestic service, for more than eight (8) hours in any twelve (12) hour period, or before the hour of five (5:00) o'clock a.m. or after the hour of ten (10:00) o'clock p.m. on nights followed by a school day, or after the hour of twelve (12:00) midnight on days which are not followed by a school day.
(b) Provided however that children between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16) years who are not enrolled in school may be employed at any gainful occupation for an eight (8) hour period between the hours of five (5:00) a.m. and twelve (12:00) midnight of any one (1) day.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-111 - Children; Employment During School Prohibited.

27-6-111. Children; employment during school prohibited.
No child under the age of sixteen (16) who is enrolled in any private or public school in the state of Wyoming shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any occupation or service during the time that the classes of said school in which the said child is enrolled are in session.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-112 - Children; Prohibition of Employment in Certain Occupations.

27-6-112. Children; prohibition of employment in certain occupations.
(a) No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed, permitted, or allowed to work at, in, or in connection with any of the following occupations, or at any of the following kinds of work except for the purpose of instruction in the public schools:
(i) The operation of or working on heavy construction equipment;
(ii) Employment requiring contact with or exposure to explosives or dangerous chemicals; or in any other occupation declared by the department of workforce services as hazardous, for the employment of children under sixteen (16) years of age.
(b) The department of workforce services is hereby authorized to declare any occupation hazardous for the employment of children under sixteen (16) years of age.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-113 - Children; Penalty for Violations.

27-6-113. Children; penalty for violations.
(a) Any person employing any child or children in violation of the provisions of this chapter, or any child, subject hereto, who willfully and intentionally violates the provisions of this chapter, or any person who permits a violation, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than one hundred (100) days, or both.
(b) Nothing in this chapter applies to or prevents a child under fourteen (14) years of age to be employed in a nonhazardous occupation outside of school hours by his parents, grandparents or legal guardian, or by a business owned by his parents, grandparents or legal guardian.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 6 - Employment of Women and Children › Section 27-6-114 - Employment of Children Under 16 in Amusement, Immoral or Dangerous Pursuits Forbidden; Exceptions.

27-6-114. Employment of children under 16 in amusement, immoral or dangerous pursuits forbidden; exceptions.
(a) It is unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen (16) years to:
(i) Exhibit, use or employ that child:
(A) As an actor or performer in any concert hall or room where alcoholic liquors and malt beverages are sold or given away except as provided in subsection (b) of this section;
(B) For any illegal or immoral purpose;
(C) For any business or in any place, situation, exhibition or vocation injurious to the morals, health or safety of the child.
(ii) Cause, procure or encourage a child to engage in any practice specified in paragraph (a)(i) of this subsection.
(b) Nothing in this section applies to or prevents:
(i) The employment or use of any child as:
(A) A singer or musician in any church, school or academy;
(B) A dishwasher, busboy or delivery person in a place where alcoholic liquors and malt beverages are sold.
(ii) The teaching or learning of the science or practice of music;
(iii) The physical development of a child's body in any respectable gymnasium or natatorium;
(iv) Children from taking part in amateur entertainments or theatricals for charity, or not for profit, in schools, churches, settlement houses or boys' or girls' clubs.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-101 - Policy of State; Organized Labor Permitted.

27-7-101. Policy of state; organized labor permitted.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Wyoming that workers have the right to organize for the purpose of protecting the freedom of labor, and of bargaining collectively with employers of labor for acceptable terms and conditions of employment, and that in the exercise of the aforesaid rights, workers should be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents in any concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-102 - Issuance of Injunctions Limited by Public Policy.

27-7-102. Issuance of injunctions limited by public policy.
No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction contrary to the public policy declared in this chapter.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-103 - Acts Not Subject to Be Enjoined.

27-7-103. Acts not subject to be enjoined.
(a) No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute to prohibit any person or persons participating or interested in such dispute from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:
(i) Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment;
(ii) Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization or of any employer organization;
(iii) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person participating or interested in such labor dispute, any strike or unemployment benefits or insurance, or other moneys or things of value;
(iv) By all lawful means aiding any person participating or interested in any labor dispute who is being proceeded against in, or is prosecuting, any action or suit in any court of the United States or of any state;
(v) Giving publicity to the existence of, or the facts involved in, any labor dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling, or by any other method not involving fraud or violence;
(vi) Assembling peaceably to act or to organize to act in promotion of their interests in a labor dispute;
(vii) Advising or notifying any person of an intention to do any of the acts heretofore specified;
(viii) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do any of the acts heretofore specified; and
(ix) Advising, urging, or otherwise causing or inducing without fraud or violence the acts heretofore specified, regardless of any such undertaking or promise.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-104 - Unlawful Combination or Conspiracy Not Grounds for Injunction.

27-7-104. Unlawful combination or conspiracy not grounds for injunction.
No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction upon the ground that any of the persons participating or interested in a labor dispute constitute or are engaged in an unlawful combination or conspiracy because of the doing in concert of the acts enumerated in W.S. 27-7-103.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-105 - Hearing Prerequisite for Injunction; Temporary Restraining Orders.

27-7-105. Hearing prerequisite for injunction; temporary restraining orders.
No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open court (with opportunity for cross-examination) in support of the allegations of a complaint made under oath, and testimony in opposition thereto, if offered. Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent any such court from issuing a temporary restraining order in accordance with the code of civil procedure, but any such restraining order shall provide that a hearing for a temporary injunction shall be held not later than three (3) days after the granting of such restraining order, and such restraining order shall not be effective beyond the date of such hearing for a temporary injunction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-106 - Injunction to Include Only Specific Acts.

27-7-106. Injunction to include only specific acts.
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 sustained by competent evidence adduced in open court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-107 - Limitation on Liability of Officers, Members or Organizations.

27-7-107. Limitation on liability of officers, members or organizations.
No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of the state of Wyoming for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon clear proof of actual participation in, or actual authorization of, such acts, or ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-108 - Right to Work; Definitions.

27-7-108. Right to work; definitions.
(a) The term "labor organization" means any organization, or any agency or employee representation committee, plan or arrangement, 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.
(b) The term "person" shall include a corporation, association, company, firm or labor organization, as well as a natural person.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-109 - Right to Work; Membership in Labor Organization Not Required.

27-7-109. Right to work; membership in labor organization not required.
No person is required to become or remain a member of any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-110 - Right to Work; Abstention From Membership in Labor Organization Not Required.

27-7-110. Right to work; abstention from membership in labor organization not required.
No person is required to abstain or refrain from membership in any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-111 - Right to Work; Payment or Nonpayment of Dues Not Required.

27-7-111. Right to work; payment or nonpayment of dues not required.
No person is required to pay or refrain from paying any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind to any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-112 - Right to Work; Connection With or Approval by Labor Organization Not Required.

27-7-112. Right to work; connection with or approval by labor organization not required.
No person is required to have any connection with, or be recommended or approved by, or be cleared through, any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-113 - Right to Work; Misdemeanor to Impose or Try to Impose Prohibited Requirements; Civil Liability.

27-7-113. Right to work; misdemeanor to impose or try to impose prohibited requirements; civil liability.
Any person who directly or indirectly places upon any other person any requirement or compulsion prohibited by this act, or who makes any agreement written or oral, express or implied, to do so, or who engages in any lockout, layoff, strike, work stoppage, slow down, picketing, boycott or other action or conduct, a purpose or effect of which is to impose upon any person, directly or indirectly, any requirement or compulsion prohibited by this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall also be liable in damages to any person injured thereby.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-114 - Right to Work; Injunction Against Prohibited Conduct.

27-7-114. Right to work; injunction against prohibited conduct.
Any person injured or threatened with injury by any action or conduct prohibited by this act shall, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, be entitled to injunctive relief therefrom.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 7 - Labor Unions; Disputes and Injunctions; Right to Work › Section 27-7-115 - Right to Work; Penalties.

27-7-115. Right to work; penalties.
Any person convicted of a misdemeanor, as defined in this act, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-101 - Licenses Required; Fees; Posting.

27-8-101. Licenses required; fees; posting.
No person, firm or corporation shall open, operate or maintain in this state any employment office or agency for the purpose of furnishing employers with persons seeking employment at manual labor or in clerical, industrial, commercial or business pursuits, or for the purpose of securing employment for such described persons, or where a fee, commission or other consideration is charged or exacted or received from applicants either for employment or for help, without first obtaining a license for the same from the department of workforce services. The uniform fee for such license in cities of five thousand (5,000) inhabitants and over shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per annum, and in cities containing less than five thousand inhabitants, ten dollars ($10.00) per annum. Every license shall contain a designation of the city, street and number of the building in which such office or agency is conducted, and such license together with a copy of this act shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each and every employment agency.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-102 - Termination and Cost of License.

27-8-102. Termination and cost of license.
All licenses issued after this act takes effect shall terminate on the thirty-first day of December of each year, and shall be paid for at the rate per year established in this act; provided, however, that no license for any fractional part of the year shall be issued for any sum less than one-third of the full annual rate, and that fractional months shall be counted as full months in every case.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-103 - Bond of Licensee.

27-8-103. Bond of licensee.
The department of workforce services shall require with each application for a license a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with one (1) or more sureties to be approved by the department, and conditioned that the obligors will not violate any of the duties, terms, conditions, provisions or requirements of this act, or of other laws germane hereto. For any violation of the conditions of said bond, the department is authorized to commence and prosecute an action or actions on said bond or bonds in the name of the state of Wyoming, through the attorney general or other proper prosecuting officer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-104 - Revocation of License; Complaint; Hearing.

27-8-104. Revocation of license; complaint; hearing.
Whenever a written complaint shall be filed with the department of workforce services stating that any party so licensed as aforesaid, shall have violated any of the provisions of this act, the department shall give to said licensee notice of such complaint and appoint a day for a hearing thereon. If after a full and fair hearing, the department finds that the party licensed has violated any of the provisions of this act, the department is authorized to revoke the license theretofore issued to said party.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-105 - Licensed Agencies to Maintain Registers.

27-8-105. Licensed agencies to maintain registers.
It shall be the duty of every licensed agency to keep a register in which shall be entered with dates the name and address of every person who shall make application for help or servants, and the name and nature of such employment for which such help shall be wanted. Such register shall, at all reasonable hours be kept open to the inspection and examination of the department of workforce services.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-106 - Registration Fee.

27-8-106. Registration fee.
Where a registration fee is charged for receiving or filing application for employment of help, such fee shall in no case exceed the sum of one dollar ($1.00), unless the salary or wages to be paid shall be more than three dollars ($3.00) per day, in which case a fee of not more than two dollars ($2.00) may be charged. A duplicate receipt shall be given for such fee, (one (1) copy to be kept by the employee and the other by the employer) in which receipt there shall be stated the name and address of the applicant, the date of such application, the amount of the fee, and the nature of the work to be done or the situation to be procured. In the event that the said applicant shall not obtain a situation or employment through such licensed agency, then after the expiration of three (3) days from the time of registration such licensed agency shall repay and return to such applicant, upon demand being made therefor, the full amount of the fee paid or deposited by said applicant to such licensed agency.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-107 - Fraudulent Notices or Advertisements, and False Information or Promises Prohibited.

27-8-107. Fraudulent notices or advertisements, and false information or promises prohibited.
No licensed agency shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information or make any false promise concerning or relating to work or employment to anyone who shall apply for employment, and no licensed agency shall make any false entry in the register to be kept as herein provided.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-108 - Duty of Department to File Complaints of Violations; Duty to Enforce.

27-8-108. Duty of department to file complaints of violations; duty to enforce.
It shall be the duty of the department of workforce services, when informed of any violation of this act, to file complaint of such violation with the attorney general or with the district attorney for the county in which such violation is alleged to have occurred and it shall be the duty of the official informed to institute proceedings for the enforcement of the penalties.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-109 - Department of Workforce Services to Account.

27-8-109. Department of workforce services to account.
All money or monies received from fees under this act shall be forthwith accounted for by the department of workforce services and turned over to the state treasurer, taking the state treasurer's receipt for the same. Such monies shall become a part of the state general fund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-110 - Free Employment Bureaus and University Placement Services Excepted.

27-8-110. Free employment bureaus and university placement services excepted.
Free employment bureaus and placement services of the University of Wyoming now or hereafter organized or established in this state, are not subject to this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 8 - Employment Offices and Agencies › Section 27-8-111 - Penalty.

27-8-111. Penalty.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment as the court may direct.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 9 - Fair Employment Practices › Section 27-9-102 - Definitions.

27-9-102. Definitions.
(a) "Court" shall mean the district court in and for the judicial district of the state of Wyoming in which the asserted unfair employment practice occurred, or, if said court be not in session at that time, then any judge of said court.
(b) "Employer" shall mean the state of Wyoming or any political subdivision or board, commission, department, institution or school district thereof, and every other person employing two (2) or more employees within the state; but it does not mean religious organizations or associations. "Employer" shall include those divisions of the Wyoming military department that are authorized by federal authority.
(c) "Unfair employment practice" shall mean those practices specified as discriminatory or unfair in W.S. 27-9-105.
(d) As used in W.S. 27-9-101 through 27-9-106, "department" means the department of workforce services and the term "director" means the director of the department or his designee who is authorized to administer W.S. 27-9-101 through 27-9-106.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 9 - Fair Employment Practices › Section 27-9-104 - Powers and Duties of Department of Employment.

27-9-104. Powers and duties of department of employment.
(a) The department shall have the following powers and duties:
(i) To call upon any state agency, institution, or employee, for advice, counsel, and assistance in the enforcement of this article;
(ii) To adopt, publish, amend, and rescind regulations consistent with and for the enforcement of this article;
(iii) To receive, investigate, and determine the validity of complaints alleging discrimination in employment or the existence of a discriminatory or unfair employment practice;
(iv) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(v) For the purposes of all counseling, mediation or investigations the department shall have the power to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of any books, papers, documents or records that the department deems relevant or material to the inquiry or determination;
(vi) In case of disobedience to a subpoena the department may invoke the aid of any district court in the state in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt of court;
(vii) To enter into agreements, exchange information and otherwise assist the equal employment opportunity commission, and to accept from the equal employment opportunity commission reimbursement for services rendered;
(viii) To enter into agreements, exchange information and otherwise assist the Wyoming military department to counsel, mediate, investigate and determine claims by members of the Wyoming national guard and employees of the military department. As used in this paragraph, "claims" means claims under this chapter or claims under the federal laws enforced by the equal employment opportunity commission, as applicable. The department shall promulgate rules that coordinate with the military department rules promulgated under W.S. 19-7-103(b)(xxv) to accomplish the powers and duties in this paragraph and W.S. 19-7-103(b)(xxv), consistent with equal employment opportunity commission rules and requirements and federal law.
(b) The department shall contract with an independent hearing officer to conduct any hearing under W.S. 27-9-101 through 27-9-106.