Title 27, Title 27 — Labor And Employment

Investigation and determination of unpaid wage claims; hearing; orders; collection of unpaid wages. (a) Upon receipt of a written claim for unpaid wages, the department shall process, investigate and determine the validity of the claim. (b) If either the employer or employee is a…

County attorney to assist in collection of unpaid wages. In suits commenced under this act where the employer failed to comply with the department's order to pay the unpaid wages due, the department shall refer the matter to the appropriate county attorney for enforcement of the …

Limitation on attempts to make payment of wages collected; unclaimed wages. The department shall attempt for a period of not less than four (4) months from the date of the collection, to make payments of wages collected under this act to the persons entitled to the wages. Wages c…

Tips and gratuities; unlawful to pay lower wage than that agreed upon; unlawful to fraudulently fail to pay fringe benefits agreed upon. (a) Tips and gratuities received by an employee or employees shall be the sole property of such employee or employees and not payable in whole …

Agreements for reciprocal enforcement; of claim to another state. (a) The department is hereby empowered to enter into agreements with agencies of other states or the federal government for the reciprocal enforcement and collection of wage claims if those states have a statute au…

State and county employees; overtime compensation. (a) The period of employment of state and county employees is eight (8) hours per day and forty (40) hours per week which constitute a lawful day's and week's work respectively. (b) Except for employees whose maximum salary is re…

Working day; mines generally. (a) The lawful working day in all underground mines is eight (8) hours per day, except: (i) In case of emergency; (ii) By mutual agreement between an employer and employee or employees' representative for a longer period of employment, but not to exc…

Punitive action prohibited; penalty. Any employer who takes or threatens punitive action against any employee who refuses to work more than eight (8) hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period, except as provided by W.S. 27-5-102, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the pena…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Emergency" means any condition which, if not corrected immediately, will jeopardize: (A) Human life; or (B) Property. (ii) "Employer" means any owner, lessee, agent, operator or manager of any underground mine; (iii) "Punitive action" me…

Penalties. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, for each offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.

Children; proof of age required; prohibited employment. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ, permit or allow any child under the age of fourteen (14) years to work at any gainful occupation except farm, domestic or lawn and yard service. To ensure t…

Children; proof of age required; inspection and form. (a) The proof of age required by W.S. 27-6-107 shall be made available for inspection by any official charged with the enforcement of laws regulating the employment of minors. The acceptable forms of proof of age include the f…

Children; hours of labor. (a) No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation except farm or domestic service, for more than eight (8) hours in any twelve (12) hour period, or before the hour of five (5:00) o'clo…

Children; employment during school prohibited. No child under the age of sixteen (16) who is enrolled in any private or public school in the state of Wyoming shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any occupation or service during the time that the classes of said sc…

Children; prohibition of employment in certain occupations. (a) No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed, permitted, or allowed to work at, in, or in connection with any of the following occupations, or at any of the following kinds of work except for the purpos…

Children; penalty for violations. (a) Any person employing any child or children in violation of the provisions of this chapter, or any child, subject hereto, who willfully and intentionally violates the provisions of this chapter, or any person who permits a violation, is guilty…

Employment of children under 16 in amusement, immoral or dangerous pursuits forbidden; exceptions. (a) It is unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen (16) years to: (i) Exhibit, use or employ that child: (A) As an actor or …

Policy of state; organized labor permitted. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Wyoming that workers have the right to organize for the purpose of protecting the freedom of labor, and of bargaining collectively with employers of labor for acceptable terms and c…

Issuance of injunctions limited by public policy. No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction contrary to the public policy declared in this chapter.

Acts not subject to be enjoined. (a) No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute to prohibit any person or persons participating or intereste…

Unlawful combination or conspiracy not grounds for injunction. No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction upon the ground that any of the persons participating or interested in a labor dispute constit…

Hearing prerequisite for injunction; temporary restraining orders. No court of the state of Wyoming shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open…

Injunction to include only specific acts. Every restraining order or injunction granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute shall include only a prohibition of such specific act or acts as may be expressly complained of in the petition filed in such case and sus…

Limitation on liability of officers, members or organizations. No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of the state of Wyoming for …

Right to work; definitions. (a) The term "labor organization" means any organization, or any agency or employee representation committee, plan or arrangement, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concernin…

Right to work; membership in labor organization not required. No person is required to become or remain a member of any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.

Right to work; abstention from membership in labor organization not required. No person is required to abstain or refrain from membership in any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.

Right to work; payment or nonpayment of dues not required. No person is required to pay or refrain from paying any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind to any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.

Right to work; connection with or approval by labor organization not required. No person is required to have any connection with, or be recommended or approved by, or be cleared through, any labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment.

Right to work; misdemeanor to impose or try to impose prohibited requirements; civil liability. Any person who directly or indirectly places upon any other person any requirement or compulsion prohibited by this act, or who makes any agreement written or oral, express or implied,…

Right to work; injunction against prohibited conduct. Any person injured or threatened with injury by any action or conduct prohibited by this act shall, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, be entitled to injunctive relief therefrom.

Right to work; penalties. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor, as defined in this act, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or both.

Licenses required; fees; posting. No person, firm or corporation shall open, operate or maintain in this state any employment office or agency for the purpose of furnishing employers with persons seeking employment at manual labor or in clerical, industrial, commercial or busines…

Termination and cost of license. All licenses issued after this act takes effect shall terminate on the thirty-first day of December of each year, and shall be paid for at the rate per year established in this act; provided, however, that no license for any fractional part of the…

Bond of licensee. The department of workforce services shall require with each application for a license a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with one (1) or more sureties to be approved by the department, and conditioned that the obligors will not violate any of t…

Revocation of license; complaint; hearing. Whenever a written complaint shall be filed with the department of workforce services stating that any party so licensed as aforesaid, shall have violated any of the provisions of this act, the department shall give to said licensee noti…

Licensed agencies to maintain registers. It shall be the duty of every licensed agency to keep a register in which shall be entered with dates the name and address of every person who shall make application for help or servants, and the name and nature of such employment for whic…

Registration fee. Where a registration fee is charged for receiving or filing application for employment of help, such fee shall in no case exceed the sum of one dollar ($1.00), unless the salary or wages to be paid shall be more than three dollars ($3.00) per day, in which case …

Fraudulent notices or advertisements, and false information or promises prohibited. No licensed agency shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information or make any false promise concerning or relating to work or…

Duty of department to file complaints of violations; duty to enforce. It shall be the duty of the department of workforce services, when informed of any violation of this act, to file complaint of such violation with the attorney general or with the district attorney for the coun…

Department of workforce services to account. All money or monies received from fees under this act shall be forthwith accounted for by the department of workforce services and turned over to the state treasurer, taking the state treasurer's receipt for the same. Such monies shall…

Free employment bureaus and university placement services excepted. Free employment bureaus and placement services of the University of Wyoming now or hereafter organized or established in this state, are not subject to this act.

Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county j…

Short title. This article may be known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Fair Employment Practices Act of 1965."

Definitions. (a) "Court" shall mean the district court in and for the judicial district of the state of Wyoming in which the asserted unfair employment practice occurred, or, if said court be not in session at that time, then any judge of said court. (b) "Employer" shall mean the…

Powers and duties of department of employment. (a) The department shall have the following powers and duties: (i) To call upon any state agency, institution, or employee, for advice, counsel, and assistance in the enforcement of this article; (ii) To adopt, publish, amend, and re…