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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 9 - Fair Employment Practices › Section 27-9-105 - Discriminatory and Unfair Employment Practices Enumerated; Limitations.

27-9-105. Discriminatory and unfair employment practices enumerated; limitations.
(a) It is a discriminatory or unfair employment practice:
(i) For an employer to refuse to hire, to discharge, to promote or demote, or to discriminate in matters of compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment against, a qualified disabled person or any person otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or pregnancy;
(ii) For a person, an employment agency, a labor organization, or its employees or members, to discriminate in matters of employment or membership against any person, otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or pregnancy, or a qualified disabled person;
(iii) For an employer to reduce the wage of any employee to comply with this chapter;
(iv) For an employer to require as a condition of employment that any employee or prospective employee use or refrain from using tobacco products outside the course of his employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any person in matters of compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment on the basis of use or nonuse of tobacco products outside the course of his employment unless it is a bona fide occupational qualification that a person not use tobacco products outside the workplace. Nothing within this paragraph shall prohibit an employer from offering, imposing or having in effect a health, disability or life insurance policy distinguishing between employees for type or price of coverage based upon the use or nonuse of tobacco products if:
(A) Differential rates assessed employees reflect an actual differential cost to the employer; and
(B) Employers provide written notice to employees setting forth the differential rates imposed by insurance carriers.
(b) The prohibitions against discrimination based on age in this section apply only to persons at least forty (40) years of age.
(c) It is not a discriminatory practice for an employer, employment agency or labor organization to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension or insurance plan, which is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this chapter, except that no employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual, and no seniority system or employee benefit plan shall require or permit involuntary retirement of any individual protected under this chapter because of age. Involuntary retirement is not prohibited if permitted under Title 29, United States Code 631(c).
(d) As used in this section "qualified disabled person" means a disabled person who is capable of performing a particular job, or who would be capable of performing a particular job with reasonable accommodation to his disability.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 9 - Fair Employment Practices › Section 27-9-106 - Filing of Complaint; Determination; Appeal for Hearing.

27-9-106. Filing of complaint; determination; appeal for hearing.
(a) Any person claiming to be aggrieved by a discriminatory or unfair employment practice may, personally or through his attorney, make, sign and file with the department within six (6) months of the alleged violation a verified, written complaint in duplicate which shall state the name and address of the person, employer, employment agency or labor organization alleged to have committed the discriminatory or unfair employment practice, and which shall set forth the particulars of the claim and contain other information as shall be required by the department. The department shall investigate to determine the validity of the charges and issue a determination thereupon.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(c) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(d) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(e) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(f) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(g) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(h) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(j) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 162, 2.
(k) If the employer, employment agency, labor organization or employee is aggrieved by the department's determination, the aggrieved party may request a fair hearing. The fair hearing shall be conducted pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
(m) The department shall issue an order within fourteen (14) days of the decision being rendered, requiring the employer, employment agency or labor organization to comply with the hearing officer's decision. If the employer, employment agency or labor organization does not timely appeal or comply with the order within thirty (30) days, the department may petition the appropriate district court for enforcement of the order.
(n) Where the hearing officer determines that the employer, employment agency or labor organization has engaged in any discriminatory or unfair employment practice as defined in this chapter, the hearing officer's decision may:
(i) Require the employer, employment agency or labor organization to cease and desist from the discriminatory or unfair practice;
(ii) Require remedial action which may include hiring, retaining, reinstating or upgrading of employees, referring of applications for employment by a respondent employment agency or the restoration to membership by a respondent labor organization;
(iii) Require the posting of notices, the making of reports as to the manner of compliance and any other relief that the hearing officer deems necessary and appropriate to make the complainant whole; or
(iv) Require the employer, employment agency or labor organization to pay backpay or front pay.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-101 - Definitions.

27-10-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act the following terms shall, unless the context requires a different interpretation, have the following meanings:
(i) The term "fire fighters" shall mean the paid members of any regularly constituted fire department in any city, town or county within the state;
(ii) The term "corporate authorities" shall mean the council, commission or other proper officials of any city, town or county, whose duty or duties it is to establish wages, salaries, rates of pay, working conditions, and other conditions of employment of fire fighters.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-102 - Right to Collective Bargaining and Representation by Bargaining Agent.

27-10-102. Right to collective bargaining and representation by bargaining agent.
The fire fighters in any city, town or county shall have the right to bargain collectively with their respective cities, towns or counties and to be represented by a bargaining agent in such collective bargaining as to wages, rates of pay, working conditions and all other terms and conditions of employment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-103 - Selection of Exclusive Bargaining Agent by Majority; Withdrawal of Agent by Majority.

27-10-103. Selection of exclusive bargaining agent by majority; withdrawal of agent by majority.
The organization selected by the majority of the fire fighters in any city, town or county shall be recognized as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the members of the department, unless and until recognition of such bargaining agent is withdrawn by vote of a majority of the fire fighters.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-104 - Obligation of City, Town or County to Meet With Agent After Written Notice; Written Contract of Agreement.

27-10-104. Obligation of city, town or county to meet with agent after written notice; written contract of agreement.
It shall be the obligation of the city, town or county, through its corporate authorities, to meet and confer in good faith with the representative or representatives of the bargaining agent within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice from said bargaining agent of the request for a meeting for collective bargaining purposes. This obligation shall include the duty to cause any agreement resulting from negotiations to be reduced to a written contract, provided that no such contract shall exceed the term of two (2) years.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-105 - When Issues to Be Submitted to Arbitration.

27-10-105. When issues to be submitted to arbitration.
In the event that the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract, any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to arbitration.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-106 - Selection of Arbitrators.

27-10-106. Selection of arbitrators.
Within five (5) days from the expiration of the thirty (30) day period referred to in W.S. 27-10-105, the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities shall each select and name one (1) arbitrator and shall immediately thereafter notify each other in writing of the name and address of the person so selected. The two (2) arbitrators so selected and named shall, within ten (10) days from and after the expiration of the five (5) day period hereinbefore mentioned, agree upon and select and name a third arbitrator. If on the expiration of the period allowed therefor the arbitrators are unable to agree upon the selection of a third arbitrator, a district judge of the judicial district within which the city is located, shall select him upon request in writing from either the bargaining agent or the corporate authorities. The third arbitrator, whether selected as a result of agreement between the two (2) arbitrators previously selected, or selected by a district judge, shall act as chairman of the arbitration board.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-108 - Collective Bargaining Contract; Duration of Contract.

27-10-108. Collective bargaining contract; duration of contract.
Any agreements actually negotiated between the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities either before, or within thirty (30) days after arbitration, shall constitute the collective bargaining contract governing fire fighters and said city, town or county for the period stated therein provided that term of such contract shall not exceed two (2) years.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 10 - Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters › Section 27-10-109 - Notice of Request for Bargaining Prior to Day on Which Money Can Be Appropriated.

27-10-109. Notice of request for bargaining prior to day on which money can be appropriated.
Whenever wages, rates of pay, or any other matter requiring appropriation of money by any city, town or county are included as matter of collective bargaining conducted under the provisions of this act, it is the obligation of the bargaining agent to serve written notice of request for collective bargaining on the corporate authorities at least one hundred twenty (120) days before the last day on which money can be appropriated by the city, town or county to cover the contract period which is the subject of the collective bargaining procedure.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-102 - Declaration of Policy.

27-11-102. Declaration of policy.
(a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Wyoming, that the primary purposes of this act are:
(i) That the prevention of accidents and occupational diseases and abiding by rules and regulations are the responsibility of both the employer and the employee;
(ii) To help and assist employers and employees in accident and occupational disease prevention through educational means, which shall be made available to all industries, businesses, employees, employee groups and associations;
(iii) The commission shall furnish consultant services on development of safety programs, procedures and training services for employees, supervisors and groups;
(iv) Commission members and its employees shall be neutral in labor management relations in carrying out the provisions of this act;
(v) Enforcement shall be used only to obtain compliance with the act and the rules and regulations established by the commission;
(vi) It is also the purpose of this act to include everyone who works in private or public employment or is self-employed; except that in the case of self-employed persons in agriculture, its purpose shall be limited to education.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-103 - Definitions.

27-11-103. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Commission" means the occupational health and safety commission;
(ii) "Department" means the department of workforce services of the state of Wyoming;
(iii) "Employee" means a person permitted to work by an employer in employment;
(iv) "Employer" means any individual or organization including the state and all its political subdivisions, which has in its employ one (1) or more individuals performing services for it in employment;
(v) "Employment" means all services for pay under a contract of hire;
(vi) "Party" means each person or agency named or admitted as a party or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party;
(vii) "Person" means an individual, governmental agency, partnership, association, corporation, business, trust, receiver, trustee, legal representative or successor to any of the foregoing;
(viii) "Place of employment" means plant, premises, or any other place where directed by the employer or about which an employee is permitted to work;
(ix) "This act" means W.S. 27-11-101 through 27-11-114.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-106 - Enforcement and Administration.

27-11-106. Enforcement and administration.
(a) The department shall enforce and administer this act and the rules, regulations and orders promulgated and issued under this act. The commission shall have authority to hold hearings for the promulgation of rules and regulations in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. In any case that goes uncontested the commission may after opportunity to show cause, enter an order of final disposition which may be enforced by any district court.
(b) If an imminent danger to health or safety exists, whether it is in a specific industry where rules and regulations are in effect or not, the commission or any employee of the department so authorized is hereby empowered to direct the person where such imminent danger to health and safety exists to cease operations immediately in order to eliminate such danger to health or safety. If such person does not cease operations so as to eliminate such danger, the commission, its chairman, or any employee of the department so authorized, may, with the concurrence of the attorney general, bring a civil suit in the name of the state in the district court of the county where such danger exists, or in the United States district court for Wyoming (if it otherwise has jurisdiction), to restrain such person from continuing such operations where an imminent danger to health or safety exists.
(c) In contested cases where no appeal has been taken from the decision of the commission within the time provided for such an appeal, the commission shall adopt the decision and order the department and employer to act in accordance with the decision. Any state district court may enforce commission orders issued in that county after a hearing where no appeal has been taken. The United States district court for Wyoming (if it otherwise has jurisdiction) may also enforce any commission order.
(d) Any suit, action or appeal involving this act or rule, regulation or order of the commission, shall be advanced for trial and determined as expeditiously as feasible and no postponement or continuance shall be granted unless deemed imperative by the court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-108 - Right of Entry and Inspection; Consultation With Employees; Penalty for Giving Advance Notice.

27-11-108. Right of entry and inspection; consultation with employees; penalty for giving advance notice.
(a) Any department authorized employee or representative of the department may enter and inspect any property, premises or place, except private residences where persons are employed, at any reasonable time to investigate health and safety conditions and compliance with safety and health laws, rules and regulations. No person conducting an inspection under this subsection shall unreasonably interfere with the operations, business or work of any employer or employee. At the opening conference, immediately before an inspection commences, the department shall notify employers in writing of their right to refuse its employees entry to investigate health and safety conditions unless the employees have a warrant issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(b) A representative or representatives of the employer and a representative or representatives authorized by the employees shall be given an opportunity to accompany any duly authorized employee or representative of the department before or during the physical inspection of any workplace for the purpose of aiding such inspection. Where there is no authorized employee representative, any duly authorized employee or representative of the department shall consult with a reasonable number of employees concerning matters of safety and health.
(c) Any person who gives advance notice of any inspection, investigation or response to a complaint to be conducted under the authority, and for the purpose of enforcement of this act, without the consent of the department shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-110 - Injunction; Bond; Effect on Sovereign Immunity.

27-11-110. Injunction; bond; effect on sovereign immunity.
Whenever it appears to the commission that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a violation of any provision of this act, or any rule, regulation, or order hereunder, the commission, its chairman, or any person so authorized by the commission may bring an action in the name of the state in the district court of any county in which the violation occurred or where it appears a violation may occur to enjoin the acts or practices to enforce compliance with this act, rule or regulation or order hereunder. Upon a proper showing a permanent or temporary injunction or restraining order shall be granted. This action shall not exempt the person so enjoined from penalty, as provided in W.S. 27-11-107, or from enforcement of any other section of the act. The court may not require the commission, its chairman, or any person authorized to bring such action, to post a bond for more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), and the state of Wyoming does hereby waive sovereign immunity up to and including the amount of the bond the court requires posted in each suit but in no event shall such waiver be more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for liability incurred due to wrongfully causing a court to order a person to cease operating his business pursuant to this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-111 - Variances.

27-11-111. Variances.
(a) Any person affected by this act may request a variance to any standard, rule or regulation promulgated under this act.
(b) The commission or department shall be empowered to issue a temporary variance when the employer establishes that:
(i) He is unable to comply with the standard, rule or regulation because of unavailability of professional or technical personnel or of materials and equipment needed to come into compliance;
(ii) He has taken all available steps to safeguard his employees against the hazards covered by the standard, rule or regulation;
(iii) He has an effective program for coming into compliance with the standard, rule or regulation as quickly as practical; and
(iv) He has advised his employees of his request for the variance.
(c) A variance may be granted when it shall be determined, after opportunity for an inspection and a hearing, that the employer requesting the variance has demonstrated by a sufficient amount of evidence that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations or processes used or proposed to be used by the employer will provide employment and a place of employment to his employees which are as safe and healthful as those which would prevail if he complied with the standard, rule or regulation.
(d) Procedures for the issuing of a variance are set by rule as provided in W.S. 27-11-105.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-112 - Investigation of Health and Safety Charges and Complaints.

27-11-112. Investigation of health and safety charges and complaints.
The department of workforce services shall investigate charges and complaints of violation of the laws of this state with respect to health and safety and any order, rules, or regulations of the commission made in connection therewith and report them to the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-113 - Physical Examination of Employees; Religious Exemption.

27-11-113. Physical examination of employees; religious exemption.
Any employer may require an employee to submit to a physical examination before employment or at any time during employment, and shall provide for a physical examination, as deemed necessary, due to exposure or contact with hazards or environmental conditions which may be detrimental to the health of the employee. Nothing in this or any other provision of this act shall be deemed to authorize or require medical examination, immunization or treatment for those who object thereto on religious grounds, except where such is necessary for the protection of the health or safety of others. The results of such examinations shall be furnished only to the department, the employer and, upon request, to the employee and the employee's physician. The employer shall pay for such examination.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 11 - Occupational Health and Safety › Section 27-11-114 - Limitations.

27-11-114. Limitations.
(a) Nothing in this act shall:
(i) Limit or restrict the present jurisdiction or authority of the public service commission except employee safety and occupational health;
(ii) Supersede or limit the present authority for making rules and regulations pertaining to coal mines;
(iii) Affect the rules and regulations now in force until the commission shall adopt rules and regulations pertaining to noncoal mines and until the same shall become effective;
(iv) Affect the appointment of the state mine inspector and deputy mine inspectors;
(v) Affect the powers and duties of the state mine inspector and deputy mine inspectors as to their present powers and duties until July 1, 1970.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 13 - Displaced Worker Education and Training › Section 27-13-101 - Definitions.

27-13-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Demand occupation" means an occupation in a labor market area in which the director determines that work opportunities are available and that there is not a surplus of qualified applicants;
(ii) "Director" means the director of the division;
(iii) "Displaced workers" means:
(A) Those workers unemployed due to plant closures or substantial plant layoffs;
(B) Workers eligible for retraining under the federal trade adjustment assistance act;
(C) Unemployed workers otherwise affected by economic or industrial changes which have resulted in loss or reduction of their employment opportunities, as determined by the director.
(iv) "Division" means the department of workforce services;
(v) "Local education or training agency" means:
(A) A board of trustees of a school district;
(B) A public or private educational institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a vocational education program;
(C) A board of a community college district; or
(D) A board of cooperative educational services.
(vi) "Program" means:
(A) "Occupational transfer programs and retraining services" including:
(I) Services necessary to assist displaced workers in identifying those skills they possess which are transferable to other related demand occupations;
(II) Education and training activities necessary to prepare displaced workers for occupations to which their preexisting skills are readily transferable.
(B) "Education and training program" including a course or program of instruction which:
(I) Relates to an occupation or skill for which there are, or are expected to be in the immediate future, reasonable employment opportunities in the labor market area or areas in the state in which the participating individual intends to seek work and for which there is not a surplus of workers with requisite skills in that area, as determined by the director;
(II) Ordinarily can be completed within one (1) year and is intended for the primary purpose of enabling participants to obtain immediate employment in a demand occupation. The training shall not be primarily intended to meet the requirements of any degree from a college, community college or university.
(vii) "This act" means W.S. 27-13-101 through 27-13-103.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 13 - Displaced Worker Education and Training › Section 27-13-102 - Powers and Duties; Rules and Regulations.

27-13-102. Powers and duties; rules and regulations.
(a) The division shall, in conjunction with the department of education, the business council, the department of workforce services, the workforce development council, the University of Wyoming and the community college commission, establish and maintain a plan to implement the occupational transfer and retraining programs and services for displaced workers created under this act. The plan shall designate:
(i) Responsibilities of state agencies in administering this act;
(ii) Procedures for coordination between the state and local agencies and existing employment, training, education and other occupationally related activities and resources in the state;
(iii) Procedures to encourage involvement on the part of labor, management, local government and local education and training agencies in the establishment, operation and ongoing direction of programs to assist displaced workers.
(b) The division shall:
(i) Identify statutes, rules and regulations which inhibit the implementation of programs under this act; and
(ii) Recommend modifications to or waivers of statutes, rules and regulations to permit design of cost-effective programs under this act;
(iii) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 7, 3.
(c) The director may enter into contracts and agreements with local education or training agencies to implement this act.
(d) The governor, in consultation with the director, may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to implement this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 13 - Displaced Worker Education and Training › Section 27-13-103 - Programs; Funding.

27-13-103. Programs; funding.
(a) Programs established under this act shall be funded to the maximum extent feasible through existing federal, state and local resources, both public and private. The plan required under W.S. 27-13-102(a) shall include an estimate of funds available from sources other than from the state.
(b) The division may, to the extent funded by the legislature, establish and maintain programs under this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 1 - Generally › Section 27-14-101 - Short Title; Statement of Intent.

27-14-101. Short title; statement of intent.
(a) This act may be cited as the "Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act".
(b) It is the intent of the legislature in creating the Wyoming worker's compensation division that the laws administered by it to provide a worker's benefit system be interpreted to assure the quick and efficient delivery of indemnity and medical benefits to injured and disabled workers at a reasonable cost to the employers who are subject to the Worker's Compensation Act. It is the specific intent of the legislature that benefit claims cases be decided on their merits and that the common law rule of "liberal construction" based on the supposed "remedial" basis of workers' benefits legislation shall not apply in these cases. The worker's benefit system in Wyoming is based on a mutual renunciation of common law rights and defenses by employers and employees alike. Accordingly, the legislature declares that the Worker's Compensation Act is not remedial in any sense and is not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of any party.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 1 - Generally › Section 27-14-104 - Exclusive Remedy as to Employer; Nonliability of Co-Employees; No Relief From Liability; Rights as to Delinquent or Noncontributing Employer.

27-14-104. Exclusive remedy as to employer; nonliability of co-employees; no relief from liability; rights as to delinquent or noncontributing employer.
(a) The rights and remedies provided in this act for an employee including any joint employee, and his dependents for injuries incurred in extrahazardous employments are in lieu of all other rights and remedies against any employer and any joint employer making contributions required by this act, or their employees acting within the scope of their employment unless the employees intentionally act to cause physical harm or injury to the injured employee, but do not supersede any rights and remedies available to an employee and his dependents against any other person.
(b) No contract, rule, regulation or device shall operate to relieve an employer from any liability created by this act except as otherwise provided by this act.
(c) This act does not limit or affect any right or action by any employee and his dependents against an employer for injuries received while employed by the employer when the employer at the time of the injuries has not qualified under this act for the coverage of his eligible employees, or having qualified, has not paid the required premium on an injured employee's earnings within thirty (30) days of the date due. When an employee's employment starts within the same month as the injury, the status of delinquency or not contributing shall not apply until after the regular payroll reporting date.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 1 - Generally › Section 27-14-106 - Minor Employee to Be Free of Any Legal Disability.

27-14-106. Minor employee to be free of any legal disability.
A minor shall be deemed free of any legal disability for the purposes of this act and no other person has any cause of action or right to compensation for his injury except as expressly provided in this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 1 - Generally › Section 27-14-109 - Collective System for County Governments or County Governmental Entities.

27-14-109. Collective system for county governments or county governmental entities.
The division, upon application, may allow county governments or county governmental entities to establish a collective system to report payroll, pay premiums, process injury reports, manage claims and provide other services required under this chapter for the employees of the county governments or county governmental entities. The division shall adopt rules and regulations to implement this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 1 - Generally › Section 27-14-110 - Student Learner Agreements.

27-14-110. Student learner agreements.
(a) A Wyoming school district, community college or technical school and an employer may enter into a student learner agreement for the purposes of providing student learners vocational work and training opportunities and for student learners to earn course credit from the school district, community college or technical school, compensation from the employer, or both. A copy of any student learner agreement entered into under this section shall be submitted by the employer to the division.
(b) A student learner may enter into a student training agreement with an employer to complete work or vocational training at the employer's business for course credit from the school district, community college or technical school, compensation from the employer, or both. A copy of any student training agreement entered into under this section shall be submitted by the employer to the division.
(c) The employer shall notify the division if:
(i) A student learner agreement is terminated or extended with a school district, community college or technical school, and if terminated, the date of termination;
(ii) A student training agreement is extended or terminated, and if terminated, the date of termination.
(d) An employer may enter into student learner agreements with more than one (1) Wyoming school district, community college or technical school, provided that the employer shall enter into separate student learner agreements with each school district, community college or technical school.
(e) The division shall create and maintain standard student learner agreements and student training agreements for use by employers, student learners, school districts, community colleges and technical schools. The standard agreements shall be maintained on the department's website and provided to employers, students, school districts, community colleges and technical schools.
(f) A student learner who enters into a student training agreement with an employer who has a valid and current student learner agreement with the student learner's school district, community college or technical school shall be covered under the worker's compensation program established in this act. Each employer shall pay the premiums charged for each student learner as required under this act. The division shall account for student learners in calculating benefits charged to an employer's experience rating account under this act.
(g) The division shall establish rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 2 - Premiums and Rates › Section 27-14-204 - Coverage of Out-of-State Injuries; Filing.

27-14-204. Coverage of out-of-state injuries; filing.
(a) Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 177, 2.
(b) The payment or award of benefits under the worker's compensation law of another state to an employee or his dependents otherwise entitled on account of the injury or death to the benefits of this act is not a bar to a claim for benefits under this act if a claim under this act is filed within the time limits set forth in W.S. 27-14-503. If compensation is paid or awarded under this act, the total amounts of medical and related income and death benefits paid or awarded under another worker's compensation law shall be credited against the total corresponding medical and related income and death benefits due under this act.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1989, ch. 29, 1, 2.
(d) Any employee injured outside of the state of Wyoming and coming under the provisions of this section shall file his application for compensation with the division.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 2 - Premiums and Rates › Section 27-14-205 - State Contributions; Presumed Pay of Specified Employees.

27-14-205. State contributions; presumed pay of specified employees.
(a) State agencies shall administer this act as an employer with respect to its employees including filing payroll reports and submitting premium payments for those employees engaged in extrahazardous employment and covered under this act. Each state agency having officers or employees subject to this act shall file payroll reports and submit premium payments as required by this act. Premium payments for coverage of any employee employed under a federally funded program administered by an agency may be made from available federal funds.
(b) For the purpose of determining employer contributions under this act, all school-to-work participants for which coverage has been elected under W.S. 27-14-108(m), all persons receiving training under any work or job training program for which coverage has been elected under W.S. 27-14-108(p), all volunteers covered under this act, mine rescue team members, recipients of any welfare program performing work for a governmental entity, federal programs which require coverage for their participants, prisoners and probationers under W.S. 27-14-108(d)(ix) and persons performing community service pursuant to a criminal sentencing order, or a diversion agreement entered into with a prosecuting authority, under W.S. 27-14-108(d)(xv), are deemed to be paid for each month of active service, an amount established by rule and regulation of the division based upon the cost of the specific employment category to the worker's compensation account. This amount shall be established solely as a basis for determining employer contributions and is not binding upon any employer as an actual required salary for any volunteer or other individual enumerated under this subsection.
(c) For purposes of determining employer contributions under this act for officers of a corporation or members of a limited liability company electing coverage under W.S. 27-14-108(k), rates shall be applied for each officer or member covered under this act against the statewide average wage for the preceding twelve (12) month period as determined under W.S. 27-14-802(b).
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, a school district or community college district may make payroll reports and payments on behalf of any employer electing coverage for school-to-work participants under W.S. 27-14-108(m). If a school or community college district elects to make payments under this subsection, the district shall continue to make reports and payments for the duration of participation by the school-to-work participant with that employer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 2 - Premiums and Rates › Section 27-14-206 - Public Contract Work; Coverage Procedure; Responsibility on Private Contracts.

27-14-206. Public contract work; coverage procedure; responsibility on private contracts.
(a) If the state, county, University of Wyoming, community college district, school district, special district or municipality engages in work in which employees are employed for wages and if the work is being done by contract, the payroll of the prime or general contractor or subcontractor shall be the basis of computation for the payroll assessment. The required payments shall be subject to the provisions of this act and the state, the county, university, community college district, school district, special district or municipality, shall be entitled to collect from the prime or general contractor the full amount payable under this act unless the subcontractor primarily liable for the payment of premiums has paid the premiums as provided for in this act.
(b) The prime or general contractor shall secure certification when a contract is awarded or before permitting a subcontractor to begin work, that the subcontractor has in good standing an account under this act that covers all coverable employees in the employ of the subcontractor.
(c) The state, county, university, community college district, school district, special district or municipality shall secure certification before allowing a prime or general contractor to permit coverable employees to start work on a contract, that the contractor, prime or general, has in good standing an account under this act that covers employees who are subject to this act.
(d) Before final settlement is made by the state, county, university, community college district, school district, special district or municipality, the contractor shall furnish evidence that all obligations for covered employees on the contract have been paid as provided by this act.
(e) In private work a contractor who subcontracts all or any part of a contract is liable for the payment of worker's compensation premiums for the employees of the subcontractor unless the subcontractor primarily liable for the payment of premiums has paid the premiums as provided for in this act. Any contractor or his carrier who becomes liable for the premiums may recover the amount of the premiums paid and necessary expenses from the subcontractor primarily liable therefor. For premiums paid on behalf of the employees of any subcontractor pursuant to this subsection, the contractor shall be afforded all privileges and immunities under this act as if he were the employer of the subcontractor's employees.
(f) The owner or lessee of land shall be deemed a contractor when he contracts with another who shall be deemed a subcontractor to have work performed of a kind which is a regular or recurrent part of the work of the trade, business, occupation or profession of the owner or lessee. This subsection shall not apply to the owner or lessee of land principally used for agriculture.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 3 - Nonresident Employers › Section 27-14-301 - Applicability of Provisions; Reciprocity.

27-14-301. Applicability of provisions; reciprocity.
(a) This act applies to all injuries and deaths occurring in Wyoming in employment described in W.S. 27-14-108(a), (d), (e), (j), (k) or (m) but applies to injuries and deaths occurring in Wyoming to employees of nonresident employers only if the worker's compensation or similar law of the nonresident employer's home state applies to all injuries and deaths occurring in that state or the nonresident employer's home state and Wyoming have an active agreement under W.S. 27-14-306(d). This act applies to all injuries and deaths occurring outside of Wyoming in employment described in W.S. 27-14-108(a), (d), (e), (j), (k) or (m) under the following conditions:
(i) Repealed by Laws 2006, Chapter 2, 2.
(ii) The employee at the time of the injury is working under a contract for hire made in Wyoming for employment by an employer who has a principal place of business within the state established for legitimate business-related purposes and the employment is within the United States, a United States territory, Canada or Mexico, but which is not principally localized in any other state, United States territory, Canada or Mexico; or
(iii) The employee at the time of the injury is working under a contract for hire made in Wyoming for employment principally localized in another state, United States territory, Canada or Mexico, the workers' compensation law of which jurisdiction does not require that the employment be covered by a workers' compensation insurance policy issued under the laws of that jurisdiction.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 2, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 3 - Nonresident Employers › Section 27-14-302 - Required Reporting; Security Required for Certain Nonresident Employers.

27-14-302. Required reporting; security required for certain nonresident employers.
(a) Nonresident employers before starting work, and from time to time after the work has been commenced, shall report to the director the nature and progress of the work, the location of the work and the number of employees engaged in and upon the work and likely to be so engaged for the next thirty (30) days, giving further and detailed information as the director may reasonably demand.
(b) Before starting business or engaging work in this state, a nonresident employer as defined by W.S. 27-1-106(a) shall register as required by W.S. 27-14-207, and shall either pay an advance premium deposit as provided in the department's rules and regulations or shall file with the director a surety bond or other security approved by the director, as provided in W.S. 27-1-106.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1991, ch. 93, 2.
(d) Repealed by Laws 1991, ch. 93, 2.
(e) The requirements of this section shall be waived if the nonresident employer provides a certificate of coverage pursuant to W.S. 27-14-306(b).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 3 - Nonresident Employers › Section 27-14-303 - Contract With Nonresident Conditioned Upon Compliance.

27-14-303. Contract with nonresident conditioned upon compliance.
A contract shall not be let to a nonresident employer for work or services within the state until the contributions provided by this act have been paid.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 3 - Nonresident Employers › Section 27-14-304 - Return of Deposit to Nonresident Employer After Cessation of Operations.

27-14-304. Return of deposit to nonresident employer after cessation of operations.
Money, bonds or other security deposited pursuant to this act shall be returned to the nonresident employer in accordance with W.S. 27-1-106.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation › Article 3 - Nonresident Employers › Section 27-14-305 - Secretary of State Designated Agent for Service of Process.

27-14-305. Secretary of state designated agent for service of process.
Nonresident employers upon engaging in any covered employment, unless they designate a resident agent for service of process, shall be deemed from the date of the commencement of work to have designated the secretary of state as their agent for service of any process upon them in any action prosecuted pursuant to this act. The secretary of state upon the receipt of any process shall send the process by certified or registered mail return receipt requested to the last known address of the employer.