Title 28, Title 28 and Labor Relations

All members of disaster response forces who are killed or sustain disability or injury while in training for or on disaster response duty shall be construed to be employees of the state and compensated in like manner as state employees are compensated under the provisions of chap…

If the hourly wages cannot be ascertained, or if no pay has been designated for the required work, the wage for the purpose of calculating compensation under § 28-31-12 shall be taken to be a sum sufficient to guarantee the minimum payments under chapters 29 — 38 of this title.

Any sums payable under any act of Congress or other federal program as compensation for death, disability, or injury of disaster response workers shall be considered in connection with the determination and settlement of any claim brought under the provisions of §§ 28-31-12 and 2…

There are transferred to the department of administration those functions, powers, duties, and necessary resources relating to claims of state employees that relate to workers’ compensation formerly vested in the department of labor and training.

All notices required to be given by an employee to an employer under the provisions of §§ 28-29-17 — 28-29-19 and of §§ 28-33-30 — 28-33-32, and all other notices required to be given to an employer by an employee under chapters 29 — 38 of this title, if the employer is the state…

The medical treatment required to be rendered by an employer to an injured employee under the provisions of § 28-33-5, if the employer is the state, shall be rendered under the direction of a physician appointed for that purpose by the director of the department of administration…

(a) The department of administration shall have full authority and power to settle any claims an employee may have against the state under chapters 29 — 38 of this title. (b) When any town or city accepts the provisions of those chapters, the town council of that town and the cit…

(a) The expenses incurred for and in behalf of the state under the provisions of §§ 28-31-3, 28-33-5, 28-33-12, 28-33-16, 28-33-17, 28-33-18, 28-33-19, 28-33-34, 28-33-35, 28-33-36, 28-33-37, and 28-33-39 and for benefits similar to the benefits provided for employees of employer…

(a)(1) The expenses incurred for and in behalf of any town or city under the provisions of §§ 28-31-3 and 28-33-5 — 28-33-11, and the amount of compensation due an employee of a town or city as determined by an agreement with or paid by that town or city, or by the department’s p…

Legal proceedings under chapters 29 — 38 of this title between the state, a city, or town as an employer and any employee of them shall be brought in the same manner and with the same force and effect as is prescribed herein for any other employer and employee; provided, that if …

The provisions of chapters 29 — 38 of this title requiring employers to insure against liability to pay compensation arising under the provisions of those chapters shall not apply to the state or any city or town in the state, and the state or any city or town may separately insu…

Members of the national guard and Rhode Island state guard injured in the performance of required, authorized, or permitted duty shall be deemed to be employees of the state, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of chapters 29 — 38 of this title in accordance with the limita…