Title 44 — LABOR

44-201. Employer duties. (1) It is unlawful for any employer to maintain a blacklist, or to notify any other employer that any current or former employee has been blacklisted by such employer, for the purpose of preventing such employee from receiving employment. (2) An employer …

44-202. Employee assistance programs. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Provider" means any professional licensed under the laws of this state whose communications with clients or patients are subject to any requirement of confidentiality or privilege pursuant to the laws, regula…

44-501. Employers to make statement. It shall be the duty of any person, persons, company or corporation engaged in working any mine, mines, mining premises or in developing any mining claim or claims, whether quartz or placer, or in the running of any tunnel, or in the erection …

44-502. Statement before employing mechanics and laborers — Recording and posting. Any person, persons, company or corporation who shall engage in working, developing or prospecting any mine, mines, mining claim or premises, or in running any tunnel, or in repairing or erecting a…

44-503. Violation of chapter a misdemeanor. Any person, persons, company or corporation, or any managing agent violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100, o…

44-601. Unlawful to counterfeit union label. Whenever any person, or any association or union of workingmen, has heretofore adopted or used, or shall hereafter adopt or use, any label, term, design, device or form of advertisement, other than a trademark or a service mark, for th…

44-602. Penalty for counterfeiting union label. Whoever counterfeits or imitates any such label, term, design, device or form of advertisement, or sells, offers for sale, or in any way utters, or circulates any counterfeit or imitation of any such label, term, design, device or f…

44-603. Record of label. (1) Every such person, association or union, that has heretofore adopted or used, or shall hereafter adopt or use, a label, term, design, device or form of advertisement, other than a trademark or a service mark, as provided in section 44-601, Idaho Code,…

44-604. Penalty for fraudulent record. Any person who shall, for himself or on behalf of any other person, association or union, procure the filing of any label, term, design or form of advertisement, other than a trademark or a service mark, in the office of the secretary of sta…

44-605. Injunction and damages for infringement. Every such person, association or union adopting or using a label, term, design, device or form of advertisement, other than a trademark or a service mark, as aforesaid, may proceed by suit to enjoin the manufacture, use, display o…

44-606. Penalty for unauthorized use of label. Every person who shall use or display the genuine label, term, design, device or form of advertisement, other than a trademark or a service mark, of any such person, association or union, in any manner, not being authorized so to do …

44-607. Penalty for unauthorized use of name. Any person or persons who shall in any way use the name or seal of any such person, association or union, or officer thereof, in and about the sale of goods or otherwise, not being authorized so to use the same, shall be guilty of a m…

44-701. Declaration of policy — Collective bargaining. In the interpretation and application of this act, the public policy of this state is declared as follows: Negotiation of terms and conditions of labor should result from voluntary agreement between employer and employees. Go…

44-702. Contracts between individual employee and employer for or against union membership barred. Every undertaking or promise hereafter made, whether written or oral, express or implied, between any employee or prospective employee and his employer, prospective employer or any …

44-703. Injunctions — Restrictions on issuance. No court, nor any judge or judges thereof shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction which in specific or general terms prohibits any person or persons from doing, whether singly or i…

44-704. Immunity from civil or criminal liability — Labor disputes. No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute (as these terms are herein defined) shall be held responsible or liable i…

44-705. Injunctions — Declaration of policy. In the interpretation and application of sections 44-706—44-709, inclusive, the public policy of this state is declared as follows: Equity procedure that permits a complaining party to obtain sweeping injunctive relief that is not prec…

44-706. Injunctions — Grounds — Hearing required — Bond. No court nor any judge or judges thereof shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, as herein defined, except after hearing the testimony of…

44-707. Plaintiff failing to comply with law or bargain in good faith — Injunction refused. No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law which is involved in the labor dispute in question…

44-708. Injunctions — Findings of fact — Scope of order. No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the basis of findings of fact made and filed by the court in the record of the case…

44-709. Review of orders granting or refusing injunction. Whenever any court or judge or judges thereof shall issue or deny any temporary injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, the court shall, upon the request of any party to the proceedings, and on hi…

44-710. Criminal contempt charged — Rights of accused. In all cases where a person shall be charged with direct criminal contempt for violation of a restraining order or injunction issued by a court or judge or judges thereof, the accused shall enjoy, (a) The rights as to admissi…

44-711. Punishment for contempt. Punishment for a contempt, specified in section 44-710, may be by fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment not exceeding fifteen (15) days, in the jail of the county where the court is sitting, or both, in the discretion …

44-712. Labor dispute defined. The term "labor dispute" means any controversy between an employer and the majority of his employees in a collective bargaining unit concerning the right or process or details of collective bargaining or the designation of representatives.

44-713. Separability. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

44-801. Secondary boycott. It shall be unlawful to cause or threaten to cause, and/or combine or conspire to cause or threaten to cause, injury to one not a party to the particular labor dispute, to aid which such boycott is initiated or continued, whether by (a) withholding patr…

44-802. Penalty. Any person, firm, individual, corporation, labor organization or association of persons found guilty of committing, or causing to be committed, any of the acts herein declared to be unlawful, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor.

44-803. Short title. This act may be cited as "The Secondary Boycott Act."

44-901. Anti-union contracts prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to make or enter into any agreement, either oral or in writing, by the terms of which any employee of such person, firm or corporation, or any person about to enter the employ of suc…

44-902. Contracts restricting board and lodging prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any employer, by himself or by his agent, or for any agent of any employer, or for any other person, directly or indirectly, to impose as a condition, express or implied, in or for the employment…

44-903. Polygraph tests prohibited. No person, firm, corporation or other business entity or representative thereof, shall require as a condition for employment or continuation of employment any person or employee to take a polygraph test or any form of a so-called lie detector t…

44-904. Polygraph tests — Exclusions. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any law enforcement agency of the United States of America, the state of Idaho, or any political subdivision or governmental entity thereof.

44-905. franchise agreements — employment status. (1) For purposes of this section, "franchise agreement," "franchisee" and "franchisor" shall have the same meanings as provided in section 29-110, Idaho Code. (2) Neither a franchisee nor an employee of a franchisee shall be consi…

44-1001. Employment of residents of Idaho — Wage scale — Federal funds. In all state, county, municipal, and school construction, repair, and maintenance work under any of the laws of this state the contractor, or person in charge thereof must employ ninety-five percent (95%) bon…

44-1002. Terms of employment and wage contracts. In all contracts hereafter let for state, county, municipal, and school construction, repair, and maintenance work under any of the laws of this state there shall be inserted in each of said contracts a provision by which the contr…

44-1003. Definitions of terms used. Labor is hereby defined to be all services performed in the construction, repair, or maintenance of all state, county, municipal, and school work. A bona fide resident of Idaho is hereby declared to be a person, who, at the time of his said emp…

44-1004. Penalty for violating law. If any person, firm or corporation shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

44-1005. Employment of aliens on public works prohibited — Exception. No person not a citizen of the United States, or who has not declared his intention to become such, or who is not eligible to become such, shall be employed upon any state or municipal works; nor shall any such…

44-1201. Declaration of state policy. As a guide to the interpretation and application of this act the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: The financial and economic stability of the state of Idaho and its citizens is threatened by the filing of, and threats…

44-1202. Hours of work and compensable time — Determination. In any and all suits, actions and court proceedings, whether now pending or hereafter instituted, for attorneys’ fees, liquidated damages, back or unpaid wages, salaries or compensation for work or labor performed in Id…

44-1203. Compensable pay provisions unaffected. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as preventing the recovery of any wages, salaries, overtime compensation, liquidated damages or attorneys’ fees, where salaries or wages have not been paid for a pay period, nor as pr…

44-1204. Short title. This act may be referred to as the "Idaho Hours Worked Act."

44-1301. Restrictions on employment of children under fourteen. No child under fourteen (14) years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, telegraph or telephone office, laundry…

44-1302. Children under sixteen — Educational requirements. No minor who is under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any gainful occupation during the hours that the public schools of the school district in which he resides are in session, unless …

44-1303. Employers to keep record of minor employees. Every person, firm, corporation, agent or officer of a firm or corporation employing or permitting minors under sixteen (16) years of age and over fourteen (14) years of age to work in any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile e…

44-1304. Working hours for children under sixteen. No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than fifty-four (54) hours in any one week, nor more than nine (9) hours in any one day; nor before t…

44-1305. Penalty for violations of chapter. Whoever employs a child under sixteen (16) years of age, and whoever having under his control a child under such age permits such child to be employed in violation of sections 44-1301 and 44-1302 shall, for such offense, be fined not mo…

44-1306. Prohibition against theatrical employment of children — Penalty — Exception. Any person, whether as parent, relative, guardian, employer or otherwise, having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen (16) years, who exhibits, uses or employs in a…

44-1307. Employment of minors in immoral surroundings. Any person, whether as parent, guardian, employer or otherwise, and any firm or corporation, who as employer or otherwise, shall send, direct, or cause to be sent or directed any minor, to any saloon, gambling house, house of…

44-1308. Probation officers and school trustees to bring complaint. The probation officer, or in counties where there is no probation officer, one or more of the school trustees shall visit the various places of employment mentioned in sections 44-1301 and 44-1307 and ascertain w…