Chapter 151A

Section 6A. The term ''employment'' shall not include service performed by an individual in the employ of the commonwealth or any of its instrumentalities or any political subdivision thereof or any of its instrumentalities or any instrumentality of any of the foregoing and one o…

Section 70. The commissioner may prescribe to what extent any ruling or decision may be applied without retroactive effect.

Section 71. The commissioner may reconsider a determination whenever he finds that (1) an error has occurred in connection therewith; or (2) wages of the claimant pertinent to such determination but not considered in connection therewith have been newly discovered; or (3) benefit…

Section 71A. As used in section seventy-one B to seventy-one G inclusive, the following words shall unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Advance notification'', a voluntary declaration in writing given by the employer to the employee or t…

Section 71B. (a) Every employer who is closing a facility, as defined in section seventy-one A, shall thereupon promptly report to the commissioner, in such form and manner as the commissioner prescribes, such information as may be necessary to determine an employee's reemploymen…

Section 71C. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall, in consultation with the Massachusetts industrial advisory board, identify and assess various categories of partial closings. Subsequently, the commissioner shall, by regulation, identify those partial closings that a…

Section 71D. Subject to appropriation, the director of career services, in coordination with the secretary and with any other appropriate agency, shall establish a reemployment assistance program to provide counseling, placement, training, and any other services deemed necessary,…

Section 71E. There is hereby established a Reemployment Assistance Fund and a Health Insurance Benefits Fund which shall be administered by the commissioner, without liability on the part of the commonwealth beyond the amounts credited to and earned by the funds. Such funds shall…

Section 71F. (a) An employee shall be eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in his or her eligibility period, as defined in section seventy-one A, only if the commissioner finds that with respect to such week (1) the employe…

Section 71G. (a) An employee eligible to receive reemployment assistance benefits under section seventy-one F shall also be eligible to receive health insurance benefits during his or her eligibility period if (1) the individual was, at the time of termination covered by an indiv…

Section 71H. (a) At the end of each calendar month, or at the end of any other period as determined by the commissioner, the commissioner shall bill each certified plant closing employer or covered partial closing employer an amount equal to one hundred percent of the amount of r…

Section 72. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have general jurisdiction of a civil action brought by the commissioner, to enforce any provisions of this chapter. In civil actions and court proceedings under any provision of this chapter which are entered by or in behal…

Section 73. If any part, section or subdivision of this chapter, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or inoperative as to any particular person, persons or conditions, the remainder hereof, or the application of any such part, section or subdivisio…

Section 74. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Law, and shall be construed liberally in aid of its purpose, which purpose is to lighten the burden which now falls on the unemployed worker and his family.

Section 8. Any employing unit, other than one for which services described under subsections (a), (b) and (c) of section four A are performed, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter who or which, or whose agent: (a) Has employed in employment subject to this chapter o…

Section 8A. (a) An employing unit for which services described under subsection (a) of section four A are performed shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of section eight. (b) An employing unit for which services descr…

Section 8B. (a) The remuneration earned or the employment of an individual performing domestic service after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven shall not be taken into account in determining whether or not an employing unit is an employer under this chapter…

Section 8C. (a) Crew Leaders who are registered or provide specialized agricultural labor. For the purposes of subsection (h) of section 1, any individual who is a member of a crew furnished by a crew leader to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person shall be t…

Section 9. All individuals employed by an employing unit in all of his or its several places of employment maintained within the commonwealth shall be treated as employed by a single employing unit for the purposes of this chapter.