Title XXIII, Labor

Every agreement negotiated under the terms of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and shall contain workable grievance procedures. No grievance resulting from the failure of a teacher to be renewed pursuant to RSA 189:14-a shall be subject to arbitration or any other binding…

No employee in the state classified service shall hold any remunerative elective public office, or have other employment, either of which creates an actual, direct and substantial conflict of interest with the employee's employment, which conflict cannot be alleviated by said emp…

I. There is hereby established within the department of labor the division of workers' compensation under the supervision of a classified director of workers' compensation who shall be under the direction of the commissioner. The director shall perform such duties as are assigned…

The division of workers' compensation shall include the following internal organization units: I. The bureau of rehabilitation management coordination. II. The bureau of case dispute resolution coordination. III. The bureau of hearing officers. IV. The bureau of statistical analy…

Every agreement negotiated under the terms of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and shall contain workable grievance procedures.

I. It shall be a prohibited practice for any public employer: (a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with its employees in the exercise of the rights conferred by this chapter; (b) To dominate or to interfere in the formation or administration of any employee organization…

I. The records of the department of labor shall be public records open to the inspection of any person interested. II. [Repealed.]

I. It shall be a prohibited practice for any employer: (a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with its employees in the exercise of the rights conferred by this chapter. (b) To dominate or to interfere in the formation or administration of any employee organization. (c) T…

The commissioner may periodically destroy pursuant to RSA 8-B reports, records and other documents which are, in his opinion, no longer of any value to the state.

I. The board shall have primary jurisdiction of all violations of RSA 273-A:5, but no complaint may be filed with the board for violation of RSA 273-A:5, I(c) or (d) until the complainant has exhausted the administrative remedies provided by statutes other than this chapter. The …

I. The board shall have primary and exclusive jurisdiction of all violations of RSA 273-C:6. II. Complaints shall be filed by affidavit. A copy of the complaint shall be given to the party complained against at the time the complaint is filed. The board shall hold a hearing withi…

The commissioner shall appoint a deputy labor commissioner. Said deputy shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the commissioner whenever the labor commissioner is incapacitated, absent, unable to act from any cause, or whenever the commissioner deems it advisable and…

The board shall petition the superior court for the county in which the party sought to be enjoined is principally located for such order of the court as may be necessary to compel obedience to an order of the board and the superior court shall issue its order upon satisfying its…

The salary of the deputy labor commissioner shall be that as fixed by RSA 94:1.

I. The board or its designee shall determine the appropriate bargaining unit and shall certify the exclusive representative thereof when petitioned to do so under RSA 273-A:10. In making its determination the board should take into consideration the principle of community of inte…

The board shall petition the superior court for the county in which the party sought to be enjoined is principally located for such order of the court as may be necessary to compel obedience to an order of the board and the superior court shall issue its order upon satisfying its…

I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting state employees in the classified system generally shall be negotiated by the state, represented by the governor as chief executive, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representativ…

The commissioner shall, at such times as he shall deem it necessary, and without notice, visit the manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments in the state, so far as practicable, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the laws with reference to employment are compli…

I. The board or its designee shall determine the appropriate bargaining unit and shall certify the exclusive representative thereof when petitioned to do so under RSA 273-C:10. In making its determination the board should take into consideration the principle of community of inte…

I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting judicial employees generally shall be negotiated by the unified court system, represented by the chief justice of the supreme court with the advice and consent of the judicial branch administrative council appoint…

All inspections performed by the commissioner shall be proportional and relative to the potential violations being inspected. "Proportional" in this section shall be determined with reference to the importance of the issues at stake in the inspection, the degree to which the alle…

Whoever, without a license therefor, establishes or keeps an intelligence office for the purpose of obtaining or giving information concerning places of employment for servants or other laborers, or for the purpose of procuring or giving information concerning such persons for or…

The mayor and aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town may, for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, grant licenses to suitable persons, subject to the provisions hereof, and may revoke the same at pleasure.

Licenses granted to keepers of intelligence offices shall be signed by the clerk of the city or town in which they are granted, and every such license shall be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, before being delivered to the licensee. Such license shall set forth th…

The board issuing such a license shall receive for the use of the city or town for each license such sum, not less than $2, as the board shall deem reasonable.

No license issued as aforesaid shall be valid to protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license, unless consent to removal is granted by the mayor and aldermen or selectmen.

When such license is revoked, such clerk shall note the revocation upon the face of the record of the license, and shall give written notice to the holder thereof by delivering the same to him in person or leaving it at the place of business designated in the license.

A person, partnership, firm, or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, involved in a strike or lock-out, shall not knowingly employ in the place of an employee involved in a strike or lock-out, any person who customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in the plac…

In this chapter: I. "Employee" means and includes every person who may be permitted, required, or directed by any employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment, but shall not include any person exempted from the definition of employe…

No person shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any person into an agreement, either written or verbal, not to join or become a member of any labor organization, as a condition of securing or continuing in any employment.

The general court finds that there is an increasing number of persons in the state who, in their middle and later years and having fulfilled the role of homemaker, find themselves displaced because of dissolution of marriage, death of a spouse, or other loss of family income. As …

The purpose of this chapter is to protect workers of the state by requiring advance notification of significant employment losses and by providing a means for workers to seek a remedy through administrative procedure. The legislature finds that advance notice of a major employmen…

I. This state shall not engage in the enforcement of, or any collaboration with the enforcement of, any federal law, order, or rule that effectively requires any person as a condition of his or her employment, or as a condition of any other activity, to submit proof of vaccinatio…

As used in this chapter: I. "Commission" means the governor's commission on disability. II. "Person with a disability" means one who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one of more of the major life activities of such individual, a record of such an impa…

In this chapter: I. "Private employer" means a sole proprietor, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity with one or more employees. It does not include the state, a subdivision of the state, or a public institution of higher education. II. "Veteran" m…

As used in this subdivision: I. "Architectural barriers" mean physical attributes of buildings and facilities which by their presence, absence, or design present unsafe conditions or deter access and free mobility for persons with disabilities in and around buildings and faciliti…

Any party may appeal a finding of employer liability or civil penalty under RSA 541.

Whoever enters into an agreement to labor for another in any lumbering operation or in driving logs, and in consideration thereof receives any advance of goods, money or transportation, and without cause fails to enter into said employment as agreed and labor for a sufficient len…

If any employer, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees publicly advertises in newspapers, or by posters or otherwise, for employees, or by himself or his agents solicits persons to work for him to fill the places of strikers, he sh…

There is hereby established a permanent committee of the commission, to be known as the committee on architectural barrier-free design. Such committee shall be appointed by the chairman of the commission, with the approval of the commission and shall consist of up to 11 members, …

Before September 30 of each year, the department, with the cooperation of the department of employment security, shall issue a written notice to each employer that the employer may be subject to this chapter and shall advise the employer of the requirements of this chapter and th…

The permanent committee on architectural barrier-free design shall meet as soon as possible after appointment and elect one of its appointed members as chairman who shall serve for a 2-year term and for no more than 2 consecutive 2-year terms. The committee shall meet not less th…

No person shall knowingly publish or circulate any advertisement for employees which does not comply with the foregoing provisions.

Whenever possible, this chapter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. section 2101 et seq. and the federal regulations and court decisions interpreting that to the extent the provisions of federal…

The committee may utilize the staff of the governor's commission on disability and personnel from any other agency or department, with the consent of the executive director of such agency or department, to enable it to discharge its responsibilities and powers under this chapter.