Massachusetts Statutes

Section 5A. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''exclusive representative'' shall mean an employee organization that has been designated as the exclusive representative of employees in a collective bargaining unit as described in section 3. (b) Public employers shall provide a…

Section 6. The employer and the exclusive representative shall meet at reasonable times, including meetings in advance of the employer's budget-making process and shall negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, standards or productivity and performance, and any other …

Section 7. (a) Any collective bargaining agreement reached between the employer and the exclusive representative shall not exceed a term of three years; provided, however, that the employer and the exclusive representative through negotiation may agree to include a provision in a…

Section 8. The parties may include in any written agreement a grievance procedure culminating in final and binding arbitration to be invoked in the event of any dispute concerning the interpretation or application of such written agreement. In the absence of such grievance proced…

Section 9. After a reasonable period of negotiation over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, either party or the parties acting jointly may petition the board for a determination of the existence of an impasse. Upon receipt of such petition, the board shall commence a…

Section 9A. (a) No public employee or employee organization shall engage in a strike, and no public employee or employee organization shall induce, encourage or condone any strike, work stoppage, slowdown or withholding of services by such public employees. (b) Whenever a strike …

Section 1. [Findings and policy] A. The commonwealth of Massachusetts recognizes that technological advancement has generated new ''digital marketplaces'' in the transportation sector, in which companies connect, through electronic media, customers seeking passenger transportatio…

Section 10. [Rules and Regulations] The board shall make such rules and regulations as may be appropriate to effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter.

Section 11. [Conflict of Laws] In the event of any conflict with Chapter 150A of the General Laws, the provisions of this Chapter shall prevail.

Section 12. [Severability] The provisions of this act shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this article or the applicability thereof to any person, entity, or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this act and the application there…

Section 2. [Definitions] A. ''Active transportation network driver'' or ''active TND'' means a transportation network driver so designated pursuant to the following process: Upon request by the board, and at the completion of each calendar quarter thereafter, each transportation …

Section 3. [Rights of TNDs] TNDs shall have the right of self-organization, to form, join, or assist TND organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other …

Section 4. [Unfair work practices] A. It shall be an unfair work practice for a TNC to: 1. fail or refuse to provide the board with an accurate list of the names, trips made, and contact information for TNDs, as required by this chapter; 2. refuse to negotiate in good faith with …

Section 5. [Representatives] A. After receiving the information identified in Section 2(A) from each TNC at the conclusion of each calendar quarter (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), the board shall provide each TNC with the names of the active TNDs who have driven f…

Section 6. [Bargaining, Impasse resolution procedures, and final determination by the Secretary of Labor] A. Once the board determines that a TND organization is the exclusive bargaining representative for the bargaining unit, the board shall notify all TNCs, and all TNCs shall b…

Section 7. [Minimum Labor Standards] No agreement or determination made pursuant to this chapter shall diminish or erode any minimum labor standard that would otherwise apply to a TND.

Section 8. [Preemption] This law shall not preempt any commonwealth enactment which provides greater benefits or protection to a TND.

Section 9. [Judicial Review] A. Final orders of the board made pursuant to this chapter shall be conclusive against all parties to its proceedings and persons who have had an opportunity to be parties to its proceedings unless reversed or modified in proceedings for enforcement o…

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be against public policy for any employer to employ any person in an occupation in this commonwealth at an oppressive and unreasonable wage as defined in section two, and any contract, agreement or understanding for or in relation to such emplo…

Section 10. After the commissioner has established a fair wage in any occupation in accordance with sections seven and nine, it shall be unlawful for any employer in such occupation to employ persons for less than such rate of wages. The commissioner shall send by mail so far as …

Section 11. If the commissioner has reason to believe that any employer is not paying a fair wage or not observing other minimum wage regulations, the commissioner may, on fifteen days notice, summon such employer to show cause why the name of such employer should not be publishe…

Section 14. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner may bring a petition in the superior court praying that such decision of the commissioner may be reviewed by the court, and after such notice to the commissioner as the court deems necessary, it shall review suc…

Section 15. Every employer shall keep a true and accurate record of the name, address and occupation of each employee, of the amount paid each pay period to each employee, of the hours worked each day and each week by each employee, and such other information as the commissioner …

Section 16. Every employer, except employers of persons engaged in domestic service in the employer's home, subject to a minimum fair wage order shall keep a copy of such order posted in a conspicuous place in every room in which persons are employed. Employers shall be furnished…

Section 17. Each employer shall permit any duly authorized officer or employee of the department or of the attorney general to question any employee of such employer in the place of employment, other than places of employment of persons engaged in domestic service in the home of …

Section 19. (1) Any employer and his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee, including any employee in the domestic service of any family or person at his home, because such employee has complaine…

Section 1A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer in the commonwealth shall employ any of his employees in an occupation, as defined in section two, for a work week longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in exces…

Section 1B. Any employer or the officer or agent of any corporation who pays or agrees to pay to any employee less than the overtime rate of compensation required by section one A shall have violated this section and shall be punished or shall be subject to a civil citation or or…

Section 2. The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''A fair wage'', a wage fairly and reasonably commensurate with the value of the service or class of service rendered. In establish…

Section 20. If a person is paid by an employer less than the minimum fair wage to which the person is entitled under or by virtue of a minimum fair wage regulation, or less than $1.85 per hour in a manufacturing occupation or in any other occupation not covered by a minimum fair …

Section 20A. The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to any cause of action accruing more than 3 years prior to the date of filing in court of a criminal or civil action; provided, however, that the limitation period shall be tolled from the date that the employee …

Section 21. In any prosecution under section nineteen or in any action or suit under section twenty, a copy of a mandatory order covering any occupation, together with a certificate attesting the correctness of the copy and setting forth that on the date of such certificate such …

Section 22. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the minimum fair wage law.

Section 2A. It is hereby declared to be against public policy for any employer to employ any person in agriculture and farming in this commonwealth at an oppressive and unreasonable wage and any contract, agreement or understanding for or in relation to such employment shall be n…

Section 2B. Any agricultural employer or grower who employs a migrant farm worker not under a contract approved by the Federal Government or a political sub-division thereof shall provide for said worker, after ten days of employment, health insurance coverage which shall provide…

Section 3. The commissioner or the attorney general, or their authorized representatives, shall have full power and authority: 1. To investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the commonwealth; 2. To enter the place of business or employment of a…

Section 7. The commissioner may, and upon the petition of fifty or more citizens of the commonwealth shall, undertake such investigation as may be required to ascertain whether any substantial number of persons in any occupation are receiving oppressive and unreasonable wages, as…

Section 9. For any occupation within the scope of the minimum fair wage law, the commissioner may cause to be issued to an employer of any learner, or of an employee under an approved apprentice training program, or of an employee whose earning capacity is impaired by age or phys…

Section 1. The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— (a) ''Base period'', the last four completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year…

Section 11. No employer shall cease to be subject to this chapter except upon a finding by the commissioner, after having made such investigation as he may deem necessary, that such employer has not on any day after the first day of the then last completed calendar year employed …

Section 12. The commissioner, upon his own motion, or upon application of an employing unit, after investigation, shall determine if an employing unit is an employer within the meaning of section eight, eight A, eight B, or eight C, and if the services performed by any individual…

Section 13. The contributions required hereunder shall be paid to the commonwealth in such manner and at such times as the commissioner may prescribe, and shall be paid over by the commissioner to the state treasurer and credited by him to the Unemployment Compensation Fund. Shou…

Section 14. Each employer shall make contributions for each year after nineteen hundred and ninety-one at the applicable rate or rates as set forth in this section on so much of its payroll as is subject to this chapter. For the purposes of this section, the term ''wages'' shall …

Section 14A. Benefits paid to employees of nonprofit organizations shall be financed in accordance with the provisions of this section. For the purpose of this section, a nonprofit organization is an organization, or group of organizations, described in section 501(c)(3) of the U…

Section 14B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary: (a)(1) Each employer liable to make payments in lieu of contributions shall not be liable for such payments after October first, nineteen hundred and seventy-six with respect to any benefits paid, …

Section 14C. Notwithstanding the provisions of section fourteen, each governmental employer included in subsection (i) of section one which elects, or if it does not otherwise elect shall be deemed to have elected, to pay contributions under the provisions of this section shall m…