Title 22, LABOR AND SAFETY

Sec. 3. "Department" refers to the department of workforce development established under IC 22-4.1-2. As added by P.L.105-1994, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.21-1995, SEC.137.

Sec. 3.5. "Employment social enterprise" means a nonprofit or for-profit organization that: (1) provides: (A) transitional employment; and (B) social support, including on-the-job and life skills training; to individuals with a barrier to employment, as defined in Section 3(24) o…

Sec. 4. "Fund", except as provided in IC 22-4.1-21-7, refers to the state workforce development fund established under IC 22-4.1-6-1. As added by P.L.235-1999, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.107-2012, SEC.60.

Sec. 5. "One stop center" means a physical location that provides access to all one stop services required by WIOA. As added by P.L.69-2015, SEC.28.

Sec. 5.5. "State provider" means any of the following: (1) A state agency (as defined by IC 4-13-1-1(b)). (2) A state educational institution eligible for funding under IC 21-12-8-9. (3) A school corporation (as defined by IC 20-18-2-16(a)), including a charter school (as defined…

Sec. 6. "WIOA" refers to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), including reauthorizations of WIOA. As added by P.L.69-2015, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.149-2016, SEC.61.

Sec. 6.5. "Workforce focused agency" means the following: (1) The department. (2) The department of education established by IC 20-19-3-1. (3) The commission for higher education established by IC 21-18-2-1. (4) The office of the secretary of family and social services establishe…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), "workforce related program" means: (1) a program operated, delivered, or enabled, in whole or in part, by a state provider using public funds to offer incentives, funding, support, or guidance for any of the following purposes: (A…

Sec. 1. This article does not apply to the following: (1) An employment action concerning participation in a public contract by a minority business enterprise, women's business enterprise, or veteran business enterprise, if the employment action is authorized by law. (2) Eligibil…

Sec. 1. The purposes of this article are the following: (1) To provide for fair housing practices in Indiana. (2) To create a procedure for investigating and settling complaints of discriminatory housing practices. (3) To provide rights and remedies substantially equivalent to th…

Sec. 2. Under this article, a discriminatory act is committed because of familial status if the act is committed because the person who is the subject of discrimination is: (1) pregnant; (2) domiciled with an individual younger than eighteen (18) years of age in regard to whom th…

Sec. 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Minimum Wage Law of 1965. Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.1. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.1.

Sec. 10. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize or permit the payment to any employee of a lower rate of pay than may be prescribed by any other applicable law. Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.10. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.4.

Sec. 10.5. (a) As used in this section, "unit" has the meaning set forth in IC 36-1-2-23. (b) Unless federal or state law provides otherwise, a unit may not: (1) establish; (2) mandate; or (3) otherwise require; a minimum wage that exceeds the minimum wage required by section 4 o…

Sec. 11. (a) An employer or his agent who: (1) discharges or otherwise discriminates in regard to tenure or condition of employment against any employee because the employee has: (A) instituted or participated in the institution of any action to recover wages under this chapter; …

Sec. 12. An employer who consistently discharges persons within four (4) weeks of their employment and replaces the discharged person without work stoppage commits a Class A infraction. Formerly: Acts 1965, c.134, s.14; Acts 1967, c.153, s.4. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.259, SEC…

Sec. 13. The equal pay provisions of section 4 of this chapter shall not apply to employees covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement in effect on March 2, 1965, until the termination of such collective bargaining agreement or July 1, 1968, whichever shall occur firs…

Sec. 14.1. (a) The following definitions apply throughout this section: (1) "Manager or supervisor" means any employee: (A) whose primary duty is managing the enterprise or a customarily recognized department or subdivision of the enterprise; (B) who customarily and regularly dir…

Sec. 2. There are persons employed in some occupations in the state of Indiana at wages insufficient to provide adequate maintenance for themselves and their families. Such employment impairs the health, efficiency and well being of the persons so employed and their families, con…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter: "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor or the commissioner's authorized representative. "Department" means the department of labor. "Occupation" means an industry, trade, business, or class of work in which employees are gainfully employed…

Sec. 4. (a) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying to employees in such establishment a rate less than the rate at which t…

Sec. 8. (a) Every employer subject to the provisions of this chapter or to any rule or order issued under this chapter shall each pay period furnish to each employee a statement that includes at least the following information: (1) The hours worked by the employee. (2) The wages …

Sec. 9. Any employer who violates the provisions of section 4 of this chapter shall be liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages and in an equal additional amount as liquidated damages. Action to recover such liability may be maintai…

Sec. 13. (a) Whenever an injury or death, for which compensation is payable under chapters 2 through 6 of this article shall have been sustained under circumstances creating in some other person than the employer and not in the same employ a legal liability to pay damages in resp…

Sec. 14. (a) As used in this section, "person" does not include: (1) an owner who contracts for performance of work on the owner's owner occupied residential property; or (2) a nonprofit corporation that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue …

Sec. 14.5. (a) As used in this section, "independent contractor" refers to a person described in IC 22-3-6-1(b)(7). (b) As used in this section, "person" means an individual, a proprietorship, a partnership, a joint venture, a firm, an association, a corporation, or other legal e…

Sec. 15. (a) No contract, agreement (written or implied), rule, or other device shall, in any manner, operate to relieve any employer in whole or in part of any obligation created by IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6. However, nothing in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be construed a…

Sec. 16. All rights of compensation granted by IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for any unpaid wages for labor. Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.16. As amended by P.L.…

Sec. 17. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no claims for compensation under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be assignable, and all compensation and claims therefor shall be exempt from all claims of creditors. (b) Compensation awards under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 ar…

Sec. 18. The provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall apply to the state, to all political divisions thereof, to all municipal corporations within the state, to persons, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations engaged in mining coal, and to the employee…

Sec. 19. IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall not apply to employees and employers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce wherein the laws of the United States provide for compensation or for liability for injury or death by accident to such employees. Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172,…

Sec. 2. (a) Every employer and every employee, except as stated in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, shall comply with the provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 respectively to pay and accept compensation for personal injury or death by accident arising out of and in the course of…

Sec. 2.1. (a) As used in this section, "rostered volunteer" means a volunteer: (1) whose name has been entered on a roster of volunteers for a volunteer program operated by a unit; and (2) who has been approved by the proper authorities of the unit. The term does not include a vo…

Sec. 2.3. (a) As used in this section, "volunteer worker" means a person who: (1) performs services: (A) for a state institution (as defined in IC 12-7-2.1-318); and (B) for which the person does not receive compensation of any nature; and (2) has been approved and accepted as a …

Sec. 2.6. (a) As used in this section, "work based learning program" has the meaning set forth in IC 20-20.5-11.5-3. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a student who performs services for an employer as part of a work based learning program: (1) is entitled to compensation…

Sec. 20. Every employer and employee under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be bound by the provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 whether injury by accident or death resulting from such injury occurs within the state or in some other state or in a foreign country. Formerly: …

Sec. 21. The provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall not apply to injuries or death nor to accident which occurred prior to May 21, 1929. Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.21. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.30.

Sec. 22. (a) Each employer subject to IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall post a notice in the employer's place of business to inform the employees that their employment is covered by worker's compensation. The notice must also contain the name, address, and telephone number of the…

Sec. 4. (a) Every contract of service between any employer and employee covered by IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, written or implied, in operation on May 21, 1929, or made or implied prior to May 21, 1929, shall, after May 21, 1929, be presumed to continue; and every such contract …

Sec. 5. (a) Every employer who is bound by the compensation provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, except the state, counties, townships, cities, towns, school cities, school towns, other municipal corporations, state institutions, state boards, state commissions, banks, trus…

Sec. 6. The rights and remedies granted to an employee subject to IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 on account of personal injury or death by accident shall exclude all other rights and remedies of such employee, the employee's personal representatives, dependents, or next of kin, at c…

Sec. 7. Nothing in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be construed to relieve any employer or employee from penalty for failure or neglect to perform any statutory duty. Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.7. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.24.

Sec. 8. No compensation is allowed for an injury or death due to the employee's knowingly self-inflicted injury, his intoxication, his commission of an offense, his knowing failure to use a safety appliance, his knowing failure to obey a reasonable written or printed rule of the …

Sec. 9. (a) IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall not apply to: (1) casual laborers (as defined in IC 22-3-6-1); (2) farm or agricultural employees; (3) household employees; or (4) a person who enters into an independent contractor agreement with a nonprofit corporation that is recog…

Sec. 1. As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, "benefits" means the money payments payable to an eligible individual as provided in this article with respect to his unemployment. Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.201. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.8…