Chapter 149

Section 49. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to establishments used for the manufacture or distribution of gas, electricity, milk or water, to hotels, to the transportation of food, nor to the sale or delivery of food by or in establishments other than restaur…

Section 5. The attorney general may investigate conditions existing in any line of industry, and such investigations may be extended outside of the commonwealth to procure information to promote industrial development or to improve industrial conditions. He shall receive all comp…

Section 50. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to (a) janitors; (b) employees whose duties include no work on Sunday other than (1) setting sponges in bakeries, (2) caring for live animals, (3) caring for machinery; (c) employees engaged in the preparation, prin…

Section 50A. Every person employed as a watchman in establishments other than those described in section forty-eight, or employed in maintaining fires in such establishments, but not including janitors in residential apartment houses, shall be allowed at least twenty-four consecu…

Section 51. Before operating on Sunday, every employer subject to section forty-eight or fifty A shall post in a conspicuous place on the premises a schedule containing a list of his employees who are required or allowed to work on Sunday, and designating the day of rest for each…

Section 51A. The attorney general, if it is proved to his satisfaction that special circumstances require an exemption from section forty-eight, may grant such exemption under such conditions as he deems necessary for a period not exceeding sixty days.

Section 52. Every employer subject to sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall keep a time book, open to inspection by the department, showing the names and addresses of all employees and the hours worked by each of them in each day. Whoever violates this section or section fif…

Section 52B. Every application for employment which requires the applicant to set forth his experience history shall contain a statement that the applicant may include in such history any verified work performed on a volunteer basis.

Section 52C. As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Employee'', a person currently employed or formerly employed by an employer; provided, however, that for purposes of this section, perso…

Section 52D. (a) As used in this section, terms shall have the meanings assigned to them by the federal act, notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 1 of this chapter. In addition, the following terms shall have the following meanings: ''Elderly relative'', an individua…

Section 52E. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: ''Abuse'', (i) attempting to cause or causing physical harm; (ii) placing another in fear of imminent serious physical harm; (iii)…

Section 54. The attorney general shall investigate core rooms where workers are employed, and shall make rules regulating the employment of workers therein. The rules shall relate to the structure and location of the rooms, the emission of gases and fumes from ovens, and the size…

Section 56. No minor shall be employed or permitted to work in, or in connection with, any factory or workshop, or any manufacturing, mercantile or mechanical establishment, telegraph office or telephone exchange, or any express or transportation company, or any private club, or …

Section 57. A parent or guardian who permits a child under his control to be employed in violation of the preceding section, and any person who, either for himself or as superintendent, overseer or agent for another, employs any person in violation of said section, or fails to po…

Section 58. Any law restricting the hours of minors laboring in factories or workshops, or in mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical establishments shall, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, apply to minors operating elevators in such establishments, or in any building oc…

Section 6. The department shall or the attorney general may investigate, from time to time, employments and places of employment, including, but not limited to, such places where temporary personnel and material elevators are used in construction, reconstruction or renovation of …

Section 60. No person shall employ a child under sixteen years of age, or permit him to work in, about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing or mechanical establishment at any time. Except as provided in sections sixty-nine and eighty-six, no person shall emp…

Section 61. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen or permit him to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: (1) Circular or band saws or ensilage cutters, which shall include any such saw or cutter on a farm, except with respect to a minor…

Section 62. No person shall employ a minor under eighteen or permit him to work: (1) in or about blast furnaces; (2) in the operation or management of hoisting machines; (3) in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery in motion; (4) in the operation or use of any polishing or buffi…

Section 62A. The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting the employment of certain minors shall not prohibit the employment of minors fourteen years of age and older to operate, or to assist in the operation of, small power equipment of the kind utilized by hom…

Section 63. The attorney general may, after a hearing duly held, determine whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation, in which the employment of minors under the age of sixteen or eighteen is not forbidden by law, or any particular method of carryi…

Section 64. No person shall employ a minor or permit him to work in, about or in connection with any saloon or bar room where alcoholic liquors are sold. No person shall knowingly take or send any such minor or cause or permit him to be sent to any disorderly house or house of pr…

Section 65. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen, or permit him to work, in any occupation for which a permit for employment is required, for more than six days in any one week, or more than forty-eight hours in any one week, or more than eight hours in any one day, or, e…

Section 66. A person shall not employ a child or permit a child to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation before 6:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m.; provided, however, that a child may be employed as an operator in a regular service telephone exchange or …

Section 67. Except as limited by section fifty-six, no person shall employ a boy or a girl under eighteen or permit such a boy or girl to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation named in section fifty-six or sixty for more than six days in a week, or …

Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper offices, no person shall employ a minor or permit him to work as messenger for a telegraph, telephone o…

Section 69. No boy or girl under twelve shall sell, expose or offer for sale any magazines, periodicals or any other articles of merchandise of any description, or exercise the trade of bootblack or scavenger, or any other trade, in any street or public place. A boy or girl nine …

Section 6A. The department shall monitor, inspect and investigate all work, including construction, demolition, alteration or repair, involving any building or structure, including those owned or leased by the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions or authorities, wher…

Section 6B. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall enter into, engage in, or work at the business of removal, containment or encapsulation of asbestos or materials containing asbestos, involving any building or structure, including those owned or leased by the commonw…

Section 6C. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations relative to the protection of the general public and the occupational health and safety of workers engaged in the use, handling, removal or disposal of asbestos or materials containing asbestos including, but not…

Section 6D. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of such employee's filing of a complaint or otherwise providing notice to the department in regard to the occupational health and safety of such employee or other workers engaged in the use, handling…

Section 6E. The commissioner, upon determination that there is a violation of any workplace standard relative to the protection of the general public and the occupational health and safety of workers or of any standard or requirement of licensure, may order any work site to be cl…

Section 6F. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity which violates any provision of sections six B to six E, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than fifteen hundred dollars for each such offense. Such violation may be cause for den…

Section 6G. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall require any other person, firm, corporation or entity to execute a release or waiver of damages caused by exposure to asbestos or asbestos related materials. Any such release or waiver shall be void as against public …

Section 7. The commissioner, assistant commissioner and associate commissioners of the department may appoint committees, on which employers and employees shall be represented, to make such investigations and recommend rules and regulations.

Section 70. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage or be employed in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine unless such boy or girl complies with all the provisions of sections seventy-one, seventy-two and seventy-three and with all the legal requirem…

Section 71. Such badge shall not be issued until the officer issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed evidence that such boy or girl is twelve or over, which shall consist of either a birth certificate, a baptismal certificate showing the date of birth, …

Section 72. The badge shall be worn, conspicuously exposed at all times, by such boy or girl while so working. No boy or girl to whom said badge has been issued shall transfer the same to any other boy or girl. Said boy or girl shall exhibit the same upon demand at any time to an…

Section 73. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine in any street or public place after eight o'clock in the evening or before six o'clock in the morning, nor, except in the case of a boy or girl granted an emp…

Section 74. Except as provided in section fifty-six, every person employing any minor in any establishment mentioned in section sixty shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in the room where such minor is employed or permitted to work a printed notice stating the number of hour…

Section 75. The attorney general, shall, upon application, furnish the printed forms of the lists and notices required by sections fifty-six and seventy-four to all persons required to post the same.

Section 76. Inspectors shall visit and inspect the places of employment mentioned in sections sixty to sixty-eight, inclusive, and shall ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to said sections. They shall report to the school authorities any cases of children …

Section 77. Sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, relating to minors engaged in the occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine, shall be enforced by supervisors of attendance, who are hereby vested with full police powers for the purpose, and by police officers. The s…

Section 78. Whoever, by himself or for others, or through agents, servants or foremen, employs, induces or permits any minor to work contrary to sections 60 to 74, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more th…

Section 78A. (a) As an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings to enforce any violation of sections 56 to 105, inclusive, or a violation of this chapter for improperly employing a minor for which a criminal penalty is provided, the attorney general may, at his discretion, …

Section 79. Any person who hinders or delays any authorized inspector or supervisor of attendance in the performance of his duties, or who refuses to admit to or locks out any such inspector or supervisor from any place which such inspector or other authorized representative of t…

Section 8. Before adopting any rule or regulation under section six, a public hearing shall be given, and not less than ten days before the hearing a notice thereof shall be published in at least three newspapers, of which one shall be published in Boston. Such rules or regulatio…

Section 80. Whoever furnishes or sells to any minor any article of any description with the knowledge that the minor intends to sell such article in violation of any provision of sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, or after having received written notice to this effe…

Section 81. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor under his control who compels or permits such minor to work in violation of any provision of sections sixty to seventy-four, inclusive, or knowingly certifies to any materially false statement for the purpose of obtaini…

Section 82. Any inspector, supervisor of attendance, superintendent of schools or other person authorized to issue the badges required by section seventy, or any other person charged with the enforcement of any of the provisions of sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, who k…