Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXI - Labor and Industries
Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries

Section 5 - Investigations of Industrial Conditions; Complaints; Prosecutions - Section 5. The attorney general may investigate conditions existing in...

Section 6 - Safety Devices and Means to Prevent Accidents and Diseases Generally; Fees for Structural Painting - Section 6. The department shall or the attorney general may...

Section 61/2 - Protection of Employees Consistent With Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act; Occupational Health and Safety Hazard Advisory Board - Section 61/2. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...

Section 6a - Monitoring, Inspection and Investigation of Work Involving Asbestos - Section 6A. The department shall monitor, inspect and investigate all...

Section 6b - License for Business Activities Involving Asbestos; Fee - Section 6B. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall...

Section 6c - Health and Safety of General Public and Asbestos Workers; Rules and Regulations - Section 6C. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations relative...

Section 6d - Complaints by Employees Relating to Asbestos; Retaliation by Employer - Section 6D. No employee shall be penalized by an employer...

Section 6d1/2 - Employer Required to Reimburse Health Safety Net Trust Fund; Retaliation by Employer Prohibited - Section 6D1/2. No employee shall be penalized by an employer...

Section 6e - Violations of Workplace Standards Relating to Asbestos; Cease and Desist Orders - Section 6E. The commissioner, upon determination that there is a...

Section 6f - Penalties for Violations of Secs. 6b to 6e - Section 6F. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity which...

Section 6f1/2 - Action for Temporary Restraining Order or Injunction Against Violations of Secs. 6a to 6e; Enforcement - Section 6F1/2. (a) In addition to the cease and desist...

Section 6g - Release or Waiver of Damages Caused by Asbestos - Section 6G. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall...

Section 7 - Committees for Investigations and Recommendation of Regulations - Section 7. The commissioner, assistant commissioner and associate commissioners of...

Section 8 - Notices and Hearings Before Adoption of Regulations and Orders; Effective Dates - Section 8. Before adopting any rule or regulation under section...

Section 9 - Appeals; Suspensions Pending Hearings; Enforcement of Orders; Other Remedies - Section 9. Any person affected by an order, rule or...

Section 10 - Entry of Places of Employment for Investigations - Section 10. In order to make investigations under section six,...

Section 11 - Reports by Physicians Generally - Section 11. The department may require every physician treating a...

Section 11a - Occupational Lead Registry; Blood Lead Testing Reports; Regulations; Enforcement - Section 11A. To assist in the identification and treatment of...

Section 12 - Regulations Prevailing Over Regulations of Workmen's Compensation Insurer - Section 12. If any rule or regulation made under authority...

Section 13 - Violations of Regulations or Orders - Section 13. No person shall violate any reasonable rule, regulation,...

Section 14 - Annual Reports of Commissioner - Section 14. The commissioner shall make an annual report, including...

Section 15 - Inspection Districts; Assignment of Inspectors - Section 15. With the approval of the associate commissioners and...

Section 16 - Receipt of Gift by Inspector - Section 16. An inspector who directly or indirectly receives a...

Section 17 - Entry of Places of Employment for Examinations and Investigations; Access to Records - Section 17. For the enforcement of the provisions of this...

Section 18 - Duties of Industrial Health Inspectors Relative to Minors - Section 18. Every industrial health inspector shall inform himself concerning...

Section 18a - Sanitary and Safety Conditions; Tools; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18A. Employers shall provide a change room with adequate...

Section 18b - Confined Spaces; Ventilation; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18B. Before allowing employees to enter confined spaces where...

Section 18c - Power Transmission Equipment; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18C. Power transmission equipment (such as gears, belts, pulleys,...

Section 18d - Ropes, Hooks and Cranes; Use and Operation; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18D. All chains, wire ropes and fiber ropes shall...

Section 18e - Safety Precautions in Dangerous Undertakings; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18E. Persons working in locations where there is a...

Section 18f - Explosives; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18F. Explosives and other dangerous articles and substances shall...

Section 18g - Industrial Truck and Internal Combustion Equipment; Operation; Construction of Docks; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18G. Every industrial truck (lift truck or jitney) and...

Section 18h - Stop Signals; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18H. The employer shall provide blue stop signs for...

Section 18i - Penalty for Violation of Secs. 18a to 18h; Longshore and Waterfront Operations - Section 18I. Any person violating any provision of the preceding...

Section 19 - Prevention of Employment - Section 19. No person shall, by intimidation or force, prevent...

Section 19a - Copy of Medical Report for Employee - Section 19A. Any employer requiring a physical examination of an...

Section 19b - Lie Detector Tests; Use as Condition of Employment; Penalty; Civil Action - Section 19B. (1) As used in this section the term...

Section 19c - Employment of Aliens Restricted; Regulations; Penalty - Section 19C. It shall be unlawful for any employer knowingly...

Section 20 - Coercion of Agreement Not to Join a Labor Organization - Section 20. No person shall, himself or by his agent,...

Section 20a - Relief Afforded by Contract Relative to Membership in a Labor or Employer Organization - Section 20A. No contract, whether written or oral, between any...

Section 20b - Liability for Unlawful Acts of Officers, Members or Agents of an Organization - Section 20B. No officer or member of any association or...

Section 20c - Definitions - Section 20C. For the purposes of this and the preceding...

Section 20d - Solicitation, Acceptance or Payment of Money to Encourage or Discourage Formation or Functioning of a Labor Organization - Section 20D. No employer and no person retained or engaged...

Section 20e - Business Combination Transactions; Labor Contracts; Definitions; Remedies - Section 20E. No business combination transaction shall result in the...

Section 21 - False Notices or Advertisement for Help or Employment - Section 21. Whoever knowingly causes to be printed or published...

Section 22 - Advertising for or Soliciting Employees During Labor Troubles; Notice to Employment Agency; Employment of Children - Section 22. If an employer, during the continuance of a...

Section 22a - Professional Strikebreakers; Obstruction of Picketing - Section 22A. No person shall knowingly employ any professional strikebreaker...

Section 23 - Filling Place of Employees; Size of Letters Mentioning Labor Troubles; Penalty - Section 23. No person, during the continuance of a strike,...

Section 23a - Armed Guards During Labor Troubles; Qualifications; Violation of Statute - Section 23A. No person, during the continuance of a strike,...

Section 23b - Use of Civil Defense Personnel in Labor Disputes - Section 23B. The auxiliary police or other personnel originally organized...

Section 24 - Communications and Conduct During Labor Disputes - Section 24. No person shall be punished criminally, or held...

Section 24a - Dismissal or Refusal to Employ Certain Persons on Account of Age; Penalty - Section 24A. Whoever dismisses from private sector employment any person...

Section 24b - Contract Provisions Preventing Employment of Certain Persons on Account of Age - Section 24B. Any provision in any contract, agreement or understanding...

Section 24c - Investigation of Complaints of Discrimination; Ascertainment of Age of Employees; Examination and Transcript of Records - Section 24C. The department shall investigate all complaints of discrimination,...

Section 24d - Records of Ages of Employees; Copy Furnished to Commissioner; Violation of Statute - Section 24D. Every person shall keep true and accurate records...

Section 24e - Hindering Investigation of Age Discrimination; Refusal of Information - Section 24E. Whoever hinders or delays an inspector of the...

Section 24f - Discharge of Employee for Furnishing Evidence or Testifying in Connection With Discrimination Complaint; Penalty - Section 24F. Whoever, personally or by his agent, shall discharge...

Section 24g - Publication of Name of Employer Found to Be Violation of Provisions of Secs. 24a to 24j; Summons to Show Cause; Liability for Damages - Section 24G. If the commissioner or any of his authorized...

Section 24h - Appeal From Decision of Commissioner - Section 24H. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the...

Section 24i - Inapplicability of Secs. 24a to 24j to Farm Laborers - Section 24I. Sections twenty-four A to twenty-four H, inclusive, shall...

Section 24j - Severability of Secs. 24a to 24i - Section 24J. If any part or subdivision of any of...

Section 24l - Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act - Section 24L. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 25 - Lodging, Board and Trade of Public Employees; Statute Part of Employment Contract - Section 25. Every employee in public work shall lodge, board...

Section 26 - Public Works; Preference to Veterans and Citizens; Wages - Section 26. In the employment of mechanics and apprentices, teamsters,...

Section 27 - List of Jobs; Classification; Schedule of Wages; Penalty; Civil Action - Section 27. The commissioner shall prepare, for the use of...

Section 27a - Appeals From Classifications and Wage Determinations - Section 27A. Within five days from the date of the...

Section 27b - Records of Employees; Payroll Records; Statements of Compliance - Section 27B. Every contractor, subcontractor or public body engaged in...

Section 27c - Penalties for Violations of Certain Sections by Employers, Contractors, Subcontractors or Their Employees - Section 27C. (a)(1) Any employer, contractor or subcontractor, or any...

Section 27d - ''construction'' and ''constructed'' Defined - Section 27D. Wherever used in sections twenty-six to twenty-seven C,...

Section 27e - Employment of Residents in Highway Districts - Section 27E. At least seventy-five per cent of the persons...

Section 27f - Wages of Operators of Rented Equipment; Agreements; Penalty; Civil Action - Section 27F. No agreement of lease, rental or other arrangement,...

Section 27g - Wages of Employees of Moving Contractors; Contracts; Injunctive Relief; Damages - Section 27G. No contract for the moving of office furniture...

Section 27h - Wages of Employees of Maintenance or Cleaning Contractors; Contracts; Civil Action - Section 27H. No agreement or contract providing for the cleaning...

Section 28 - Right of Action Against City or Town for Labor; Filing Statement; Fee; Limitations - Section 28. A person to whom a debt is due...

Section 29 - Bonds for Payment for Labor, Materials, Rentals or Transportation Charges; Enforcement of Claim; Notice of Claim; Speedy Trial, Appeal, Consolidation; Dismissal; Legal Fees; Posting Statute - Section 29. Officers or agents contracting in behalf of the...

Section 29a - Enforcement of Surety Bonds by Persons Furnishing Labor or Materials on Private Building Projects - Section 29A. Whenever any surety bond shall be given in...

Section 29b - Waiver or Cancellation of Payment Bond - Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction...

Section 29c - Indemnification as Part of Contract - Section 29C. Any provision for or in connection with a...

Section 29d - Surety Company; Bonds - Section 29D. Every bid bond, every performance bond and every...

Section 29e - Construction Contracts; Reasonable Time Periods for Periodic Progress Payments and Increases in Contract Price; Payment Conditioned Upon Receipt of Payment From Third Party; Requirement to Continue Performance of Construction Without Pa... - Section 29E. (a) As used in this section the following...

Section 29f - Payment of Retainage in Private Construction Projects - Section 29F. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 30 - Eight Hour Day and Six Day Week; Emergencies; Work on Highways - Section 30. The service of all laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen...

Section 30a - Tours of Duty and Hours of Work of State Employees; Regulations - Section 30A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or...

Section 30b - Overtime of State Employees; Regulations - Section 30B. All service in excess of eight hours in...

Section 30c - Work Week of Uniformed Members of State Police; Overtime Service; Compensation; Rules and Regulations - Section 30C. The service of all members of the uniformed...

Section 31 - Eight Hour Day for Towns and Public Works for Towns; Emergencies; Acceptance of Statute Relating to Employees of Commonwealth - Section 31. The service of all laborers, workmen and mechanics...

Section 32 - Scope of Words ''laborers, Workmen and Mechanics'' and ''requiring'' - Section 32. In construing sections thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four...

Section 33 - Hours of Labor to Make Up Saturday Half Holiday - Section 33. It shall not be a violation of section...

Section 33a - Five Day and Forty Hour Week for Cities and Towns; Emergencies; Overtime; Reduction of Compensation - Section 33A. Except as otherwise provided in this section and...

Section 33b - Five Day Week and Eight Hour Day for Cities and Towns; Overtime; Reduction of Compensation - Section 33B. Except as otherwise provided in this section and...

Section 33c - City and Town Employees; Overtime; Effective Date - Section 33C. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special...

Section 33d - Blood Donations; Leave of Absence Without Loss of Pay - Section 33D. Any employee of the commonwealth, of any county,...

Section 33e - Leave of Absence to Serve as Organ Donor; State, County and Certain Municipal Employees - Section 33E. (a) An employee of the commonwealth or of...

Section 34 - Public Contracts; Stipulation as to Hours and Days of Work; Void Contracts - Section 34. Every contract, except for the purchase of material...

Section 34a - Contracts for Public Works; Workers' Compensation Insurance; Breach of Contract; Enforcement and Violation of Statute - Section 34A. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair...

Section 34b - Contracts for Public Works; Wages for Reserve Police Officer - Section 34B. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair...

Section 34c - Application of Secs. 30, 34 and 35 - Section 34C. The provisions of sections thirty, thirty-four and thirty-five...

Section 35 - Violation of Sec. 30, 31 or 34 - Section 35. Any agent or official of the commonwealth or...

Section 36 - Nonapplicability of Eight Hour Day and Six Day Week Statutes - Section 36. Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply...

Section 37 - Nine Hour Day for Towns - Section 37. In any town not subject to section thirty...

Section 38 - Annual Vacation for Employees of Commonwealth - Section 38. All laborers, workmen and mechanics permanently in the...

Section 39 - Hours of Labor in Institutions; Employees With Less Hours Under Other Statutes; Emergencies - Section 39. The maximum hours of labor of laborers, workmen...

Section 41 - Saturday Half Holiday for Commonwealth - Section 41. Except as provided in section sixty-five of chapter...

Section 42 - Work by Employees of Commonwealth on Day Work Basis - Section 42. So far as possible, all work by laborers,...

Section 43 - Nondiscrimination - Section 43. The application of a citizen of the commonwealth...

Section 44 - Service by Veterans on Memorial Day - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...

Section 441/2 - Termination of Employment for Veterans Following Return From Overseas Duty - Section 441/2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...

Section 443/4 - Preference in Promoting or Hiring Veteran, Spouse of Honorably Discharged Disabled Veteran or Surviving Spouse of Veteran - Section 443/4. Notwithstanding chapter 151B, a private, nonpublic employer may...

Section 44a - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 44a to 44h; Competitive Bids on Construction, etc., of Public Works; Award; Bonds; Extreme Emergency Situations; Records Contracts Not Subjected to Competitive Bid Process - Section 44A. (1) The words defined in this section shall...

Section 44a1/2 - Fair Competition for Bidders on Construction - Section 44A1/2. (a) A public agency, before entering into a...

Section 44b - Plans and Specifications; Bid Deposits - Section 44B. (1) The awarding authority shall prepare for bidding...

Section 44c - Suspension or Debarment of Contractors - Section 44C. The commissioner may suspend or debar contractors in...

Section 44d - Submission of Bid or Offer; Application for Certification - Section 44D. (1) (a) Every bid or offer submitted for...

Section 44d1/2 - General Contractor Bids; Prequalification Procedures - Section 44D1/2. (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on...

Section 44d3/4 - Subcontractor Sub-Bids; Prequalification Procedures - Section 44D3/4. (a) Notwithstanding section 44E, an awarding authority on...

Section 44e - Filing of Bids; Forms; Modular Buildings - Section 44E. (1) Whenever general bids are invited for a...

Section 44e1/2 - Renovation and Repair of State House and Historic Suffolk County Courthouse; Solicitation of Bids; Evaluation of Bids; Contract Award; Payment and Performance Bonds - Section 44E1/2. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance...

Section 44f - Plans and Specifications; Sub-Bids; Form; Contents - Section 44F. (1)(a) Every contract subject to section forty-four A...

Section 44g - Allowances; Alternates; Weather Protection Devices - Section 44G. (A) ''Allowance'' as used herein means a sum...

Section 44h - Enforcement - Section 44H. Except as otherwise provided by sections 44A to...

Section 44i - Severability of Secs. 44a to 44h - Section 44I. If any provision of sections forty-four A to...

Section 44j - Invitations to Bid; Notice; Contents; Violations; Penalty - Section 44J. (1) No public agency or authority of the...

Section 44m - Energy Systems; Life-Cycle Cost Estimates - Section 44M. As used in this section the following words...

Section 45 - Work on Holidays - Section 45. Whoever requires an employee to work in any...

Section 46 - Work for Time Lost by Holidays - Section 46. No person shall require or request any employee...

Section 47 - Sunday Work Without a Day Off - Section 47. Whoever, except at the request of the employee,...

Section 48 - One Day of Rest in Seven; Operation of Business on Sunday; Violations - Section 48. Every employer of labor engaged in carrying on...

Section 49 - Establishments Not Subject to Sunday Work and Rest Days; Railroads or Railways - Section 49. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to...

Section 50 - Work Not Subject to Sunday Work and Rest Days - Section 50. Sections forty-seven and forty-eight shall not apply to...

Section 50a - One Day of Rest in Seven for Watchmen and Employees Maintaining Fires, Violations - Section 50A. Every person employed as a watchman in establishments...

Section 51 - Posting List of Employees Working on Sunday; Work on Days of Rest - Section 51. Before operating on Sunday, every employer subject to...

Section 51a - Exemption for Special Circumstances; Days of Rest and Sunday Business - Section 51A. The attorney general, if it is proved to...

Section 52 - Time Books; Violation of Statute - Section 52. Every employer subject to sections forty-seven and forty-eight...

Section 52a1/2 - Veterans; Participation in Memorial Day Exercise and Observance of Veterans Day; Leave of Absence Granted; Exceptions - Section 52A1/2. An employee who is a veteran or a...

Section 52b - Employment Applications; Volunteer Work as Experience - Section 52B. Every application for employment which requires the applicant...

Section 52c - Personnel Records; Review by Employee; Corrections; Penalty - Section 52C. As used in this section, the following words...

Section 52d - Family and Medical Leave; Enforcement - Section 52D. (a) As used in this section, terms shall...

Section 52e - Leave From Work When Employee or Family Member of Employee Has Been Victim of Abusive Behavior - Section 52E. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...

Section 54 - Core Rooms Where Workers Employed; Investigations; Regulations; Violations - Section 54. The attorney general shall investigate core rooms where...

Section 56 - Minors; Restrictions on Hours of Work; Posting Notices; Making Up Time Lost by Stoppage of Machinery; Employment by Shifts; Minors Employed on Farms - Section 56. No minor shall be employed or permitted to...

Section 57 - Employment in Violation of Statute - Section 57. A parent or guardian who permits a child...

Section 58 - Elevator Operators; Minors - Section 58. Any law restricting the hours of minors laboring...

Section 60 - Children Under Sixteen in General; School Hours; Night Work; Plays or Musical Comedies; Fashion Shows; Hospitals - Section 60. No person shall employ a child under sixteen...

Section 61 - Minors Under Sixteen; Particular Employments - Section 61. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen...

Section 62 - Minors Under Eighteen - Section 62. No person shall employ a minor under eighteen...

Section 62a - Employment of Vocational Agricultural Students - Section 62A. The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting...

Section 63 - Dangerous or Injurious Employment of Minors; Hearing and Determination - Section 63. The attorney general may, after a hearing duly...

Section 64 - Employment of Minors Where Liquor Sold; Taking or Sending Minors to Immoral Places - Section 64. No person shall employ a minor or permit...

Section 65 - Hours and Days Of, and Time For, Work of Minors Under Sixteen; Time in Continuation School or Courses of Instruction - Section 65. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen,...

Section 66 - Time of Work for Children; Exceptions - Section 66. A person shall not employ a child or...

Section 67 - Days and Hours of Work for Boys or Girls Under Eighteen - Section 67. Except as limited by section fifty-six, no person...

Section 68 - Time for Work of Minor Messengers - Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected...

Section 69 - Children as Newspaper Vendors; Restrictions; Penalty - Section 69. No boy or girl under twelve shall sell,...

Section 70 - Minors Under Sixteen as Vendors and Bootblacks, Scavengers or Other Trade in Street or Public Places; Charge for Badge for Employment - Section 70. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage...

Section 71 - Issuance of Badges to Minors; Proof of Age; Grounds for Refusal to Issue - Section 71. Such badge shall not be issued until the...

Section 72 - Badges; Wearing; Transfer; Exhibition; Regulations for Issuing - Section 72. The badge shall be worn, conspicuously exposed at...

Section 73 - Time for Work of Minors Under Sixteen Engaged as Vendors, Bootblacks, Scavengers or in Any Other Trade in Streets or Public Places - Section 73. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage...

Section 74 - Posting of Notice of Hours of Work of Minor; Employment at Other Times; Changing Terms - Section 74. Except as provided in section fifty-six, every person...

Section 75 - Forms of Notice Furnished by Attorney General - Section 75. The attorney general, shall, upon application, furnish the...

Section 76 - Inspectors; Duties; Prosecutions - Section 76. Inspectors shall visit and inspect the places of...

Section 77 - Enforcement of Statutes; Supervisors of Attendance; Appointment; Powers - Section 77. Sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, relating to minors...

Section 78 - Employment Of, and Permitting Work By, Minors Contrary to Statutes; Reports of Violations - Section 78. Whoever, by himself or for others, or through...

Section 78a - Written Warnings and Civil Citations; Appeal; Penalties; Criminal Complaint - Section 78A. (a) As an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings...

Section 79 - Hindering Inspectors, Supervisors of Attendance or Department Representatives; Refusal of Admittance or to Give Information - Section 79. Any person who hinders or delays any authorized...

Section 80 - Furnishing Minors With Articles for Sale In, and Encouragement Of, Violation of Statutes - Section 80. Whoever furnishes or sells to any minor any...

Section 81 - Compelling or Permitting Minor to Work in Violation of Statute; Certification of False Statement - Section 81. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor...

Section 82 - Violation of Statutes by Persons Issuing Badges or Enforcing Statutes - Section 82. Any inspector, supervisor of attendance, superintendent of schools...

Section 83 - Violation of Statutes by Minors; Revocation of Badge; Refusal to Surrender; Working After Revocation - Section 83. Any minor who engages in any of the...

Section 84 - Service of Summons or Warrants - Section 84. A summons or warrant issued by any court...

Section 85 - Nonapplicability of Secs. 60 to 83 - Section 85. Sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply...

Section 86 - Employment of Children With Permit; Particular Employments; Filing, Accessibility and Return Of, and Failure to Return, Permit; List of Employed Children - Section 86. A person shall not employ a child, other...

Section 87 - Employment Permits in General; Approval; Return of Evidence of Age; Certificate by Town Clerk; Notice of Child's Violation of Statute - Section 87. An employment permit shall be issued only by...

Section 88 - School Record for Employment Permit; Educational Qualification; Necessary School Attendance - Section 88. The school record required by section eighty-seven shall...

Section 89 - Employment Permits; Contents; Signatures; Fee; Duplicate; Records; Papers Furnished by Department; Explanatory Matter - Section 89. The employment permit required under this chapter shall...

Section 90 - Employment of Child Under Sixteen in Violation of Statute; Penalties; Forged Evidence of Age or Birth; Certification of False Statements In, and Alteration Of, Permit - Section 90. Whoever employs a child under sixteen, or whoever...

Section 91 - Cessation of Employment for Non-Attendance of Continuation School; Violation of Statute - Section 91. The employer of any minor between fourteen and...

Section 92 - Visiting to Ascertain Employment of Children; Reporting Illegal Employment; Complaint; Violation of Statute - Section 92. Supervisors of attendance may visit the factories, workshops,...

Section 93 - Employment Contrary to Statute; Taking Minor to School; Reporting Evidence to Court or Justice; Complaint; Violation of Statute - Section 93. A supervisor of attendance shall apprehend and take...

Section 94 - Employment Permits, Educational Certificates and Lists of Employed Minors Produced for Inspection; Evidence of Illegal Employment - Section 94. Supervisors of attendance, representatives of the office of...

Section 95 - Minors 16 Years or Older Who Have Not Completed Requirements for Sixth Grade; Attendance at School - Section 95. If a minor 16 years of age or...

Section 95a - Work-Study Program Exception to Permit for Employment Requirement; Exceptions - Section 95A. A school committee of any city, town or...

Section 96 - Manual Training and Industrial Education; Effect of Statutes - Section 96. Sections eighty-six to ninety-five, inclusive, shall not prevent...

Section 100 - Hours of Work Without Interval for Meal; Duration; Violation of Statute - Section 100. No person shall be required to work for...

Section 101 - Nonapplicability of Statute Relating to Mealtimes and Intervals for Meals - Section 101. The preceding section shall not apply to iron...

Section 102 - Labor During Mealtime Without Knowledge of Employer - Section 102. If a minor shall, without the orders, consent...

Section 103 - Seats for Employees; Violation of Statute - Section 103. Employers shall provide suitable seats for the use...

Section 104 - Children Participants in Public Exhibitions; Violation of Statute - Section 104. No person shall employ a child under fifteen...

Section 105 - License for Theatrical Exhibitions or Shows in Which Children Are Employed - Section 105. A license shall not be granted for a...

Section 105a - Discrimination on Basis of Gender in Payment of Wages Prohibited; Enforcement; Unlawful Practices; Good Faith Self-Evaluation of Payment Practices - Section 105A. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 105b - Violation of Secs. 105a to 105c; Discharge or Discrimination Because of Complaint, Proceedings or Testimony; Penalties - Section 105B. Any employer who violates any provision of sections...

Section 105c - Entry of Premises, and Investigation to Determine Compliance With Secs. 105a to 105c - Section 105C. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of...

Section 105d - Parental Leave; Rights and Benefits - Section 105D. (a) For the purposes of this section, an...

Section 106 - Drinking Water; Violation of Statute; Coverage of Term ''industrial Establishments'' - Section 106. All industrial establishments and every person engaged in...

Section 107 - Water for Humidifying Purposes; Violation of Statute - Section 107. The water used for humidifying purposes by any...

Section 108 - Thermometers for Humidity and Temperature; Regulations; Place; Reading; Record - Section 108. In every weaving and spinning department in a...

Section 109 - Nonapplicability of Statute Relating to Thermometers; Hygrometers; Psychrometers; Records - Section 109. The preceding section shall not apply to textile...

Section 110 - Relative Humidity Limits - Section 110. No owner, occupier or manager or person for...

Section 111 - Sources of Water for Humidifying Purposes; Clean Air Ducts - Section 111. Water used for humidifying purposes in a textile...

Section 112 - Failure to Comply With Secs. 108 to 111; Penalty - Section 112. Whoever fails to comply with any provision of...

Section 113 - Light, Ventilation, Cleanliness, Sanitation and Heat in Establishments - Section 113. Every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment,...

Section 114 - Investigations and Suggestions Relative to Eyes and Vision - Section 114. The industrial health inspectors shall, when obtaining information...

Section 115 - Devices and Means to Prevent Injury to Eyes; Order; Compliance; Violation of Statute - Section 115. If it appears to an inspector that in...

Section 116 - Investigations as to Light; Notice to Change; Failure to Comply With Order - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...

Section 117 - Ventilation - Section 117. Every establishment in which one or more persons...

Section 118 - Means to Diminish Inhalation of Dust - Section 118. If, in any place of employment, any process...

Section 119 - Hoods or Hoppers and Suction Pipes for Emery or Buffing Wheels or Belts - Section 119. Any person operating a factory or workshop where...

Section 120 - Form and Place of Hoods or Hoppers; Size and Speed of Blowers; Approval by Attorney General - Section 120. Every such wheel shall be fitted with a...

Section 121 - Nonapplicability of Statutes Relating to Emery and Buffing Machinery - Section 121. The two preceding sections shall not apply to...

Section 122 - Violation of Statutes Relating to Ventilation, Dust and Emery and Buffing Machinery - Section 122. Violations of sections one hundred and seventeen to...

Section 123 - Inspections Relative to Apparatus for Emery and Buffing Machinery; Complaint; Prosecution - Section 123. Inspectors, upon receipt of a notice signed by...

Section 124 - Communication Between Engineer's Room and Machinery Room - Section 124. In every manufacturing establishment where the machinery is...

Section 125 - Violation of Statute Relating to Communication - Section 125. An occupant or manager of a manufacturing establishment...

Section 126 - Fastening Doors During Business Hours; Violation of Statute - Section 126. No inside or outside door of any building...

Section 127 - Guards For, and Cleaning Of, Machinery; Disconnection and Removal of Safety Devices - Section 127. The belting, shafting, gearing, drums and all machinery...

Section 128 - Traversing Carriage of a Self-Acting Mule Traveling Close to Fixed Structure - Section 128. The owner of a cotton factory erected after...

Section 129 - Safeguards for Hoistways, Hatchways and Well Holes; Closing Trapdoors - Section 129. The openings of hoistways, hatchways and well holes...

Section 129a - Shoring Trenches for Local Governments; Graves Excepted - Section 129A. On any construction project carried on by any...

Section 129b - Stilts; Penalty for Requiring or Knowingly Permitting Use in Construction - Section 129B. Whoever, being engaged in construction work, requires or...

Section 129c - Installation or Repair of Live Electric Wires or Electrical Equipment; Assistance; Safety Equipment; Penalty - Section 129C. Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting...

Section 129d - Riding in Man-Basket Carried by Hoisting Machinery for Bungee Jumping or Other Approved Activity - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...

Section 130 - Explosives or Inflammable Materials; Storage and Use Near Egress - Section 130. Explosive or inflammable compounds or materials shall not...

Section 131 - Guards for Loom Shuttles; Violation of Statute - Section 131. Any person owning, managing or operating a factory...

Section 132 - Suction Shuttles; Shuttle or Thread Touching Lips; Violation of Statute - Section 132. No proprietor of a factory nor any officer...

Section 133 - Water Closets, Toilets and Washing Facilities; Regulations; Definitions of ''industrial Establishments'' and ''railroad Establishments'' - Section 133. In every industrial establishment and railroad establishment there...

Section 134 - Necessary Changes; Action for Proportion of Expense - Section 134. The owner, lessee or occupant of every such...

Section 135 - Prosecutions; Necessity of Neglect to Make Changes; Notice; Liability of Corporate Officer - Section 135. A criminal prosecution shall not be begun against...

Section 136 - Violation of Public Health Laws; Notice to Town Board of Health; Enforcement - Section 136. If it appears to an inspector that any...

Section 137 - Foundry Toilet Rooms and Water Closets; Failure to Comply With Statute - Section 137. The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the...

Section 138 - Injuring Toilet Appliances - Section 138. Whoever wilfully destroys, defaces, injures or defiles any...

Section 139 - Lockers and Clothes Receptacles of Employees; Violation of Statute - Section 139. In any mercantile or manufacturing establishment or hotel...

Section 141 - Medical and Surgical Chests; Accommodations for Treatment of Injured or Ill Persons; Facilities for Heating Food; Violation of Statute - Section 141. Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical...

Section 141a - Lifting Heavy Objects in Textile Factories - Section 141A. No person or persons employed in a textile...

Section 142 - Sanitary Material for Cleaning Printing Presses - Section 142. All publishers and printers shall use a sanitary...

Section 142a - Marked Receptacles for Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health - Section 142A. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport...

Section 142b - Marked Receptacles for Materials Containing Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health - Section 142B. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport...

Section 142c - Markings; Clear and Conspicuous; Size; Place - Section 142C. The words and any warning required by sections...

Section 142d - Receptacles Exempt From Marking Requirements - Section 142D. The director of labor and workforce development and...

Section 142e - Reports Concerning Material Hazardous to Health - Section 142E. For the protection of persons exposed to possible...

Section 142f - Violation of Secs. 142a to 142c; Failure to Mark Receptacles; Removal or Defacement of Marks; Penalty - Section 142F. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred...

Section 142g - Enforcement of Statutes and Regulations - Section 142G. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of...

Section 143 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 143 to 144h - Section 143. The following words, as used in this section...

Section 143a - Protection From Undue Competition and of Health and Well-Being of Workers - Section 143A. Protection of factory industries from undue competition and...

Section 144 - Unlawful Industrial Homework - Section 144. The manufacture of or work upon any of...

Section 145 - Investigation of Industries; Order Declaring Industrial Homework Unlawful - Section 145. The attorney general may make or cause to...

Section 146 - Hearing Preceding Order; Notice; Place; Effective Date of Order - Section 146. Before making such order the attorney general shall...

Section 146a - Distribution of Materials and Articles; Necessity of Place of Employment in Commonwealth - Section 146A. The employer shall, wherever industrial homework is permitted,...

Section 147 - Employer's Permit; Person to Whom Materials or Articles May Be Delivered; Effect of Strike; Payment of Fees Into Treasury - Section 147. No materials for manufacture or to be worked...

Section 147a - Homeworker's Certificate; Place of Work; Work Performed by Others; Qualifications of Applicant and Home; Strike Against Employer - Section 147A. No person shall engage in industrial homework within...

Section 147b - Employer's Name and Address Affixed to Articles or Container of Goods Delivered for Homework - Section 147B. No employer shall deliver or cause to be...

Section 147c - Work in Violation of Statutes; Removal, Retention and Disposition of Articles; Notice - Section 147C. Any article which is being manufactured or worked...

Section 147d - Record of Homeworkers and Work - Section 147D. No person in possession of an employer's permit...

Section 147e - Regulations; Violations; Inspections and Investigations - Section 147E. The attorney general shall make rules and regulations...

Section 147f - Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Books and Papers; Summons and Court Order; Fees; Oaths; Depositions - Section 147F. In making any investigation or examination under authority...

Section 147g - Additional Penalties - Section 147G. In addition to any penalties otherwise prescribed in...

Section 147h - Educational and Philanthropic Organizations; Homework Performed Under Supervision of Commission for the Blind - Section 147H. The provisions of sections one hundred and forty-three...

Section 148 - Payment of Wages; Commissions; Exemption by Contract; Persons Deemed Employers; Provision for Cashing Check or Draft; Violation of Statute - Section 148. Every person having employees in his service shall...

Section 148a - Employees Seeking Rights Under Provisions of This Chapter; Discharge or Discrimination; Punishment - Section 148A. No employee shall be penalized by an employer...

Section 148b - Persons Performing Service Not Authorized Under This Chapter Deemed Employees; Exception - Section 148B. (a) For the purpose of this chapter and...

Section 148c - Earned Sick Time - Section 148C. (a) As used in this section and section...

Section 148d - Earned Sick Time Outreach Program - Section 148D. The executive office of health and human services,...

Section 149 - Summons and Warrant for Violations of Sec. 148 - Section 149. A justice or clerk of a district court,...

Section 150 - Complaint for Violation of Certain Sections; Defenses; Payment After Complaint; Assignments; Loan of Wages to Employer; Civil Action - Section 150. The attorney general may make complaint or seek...

Section 150a - Notification of Deductions - Section 150A. Every person making a deduction from wages of...

Section 150b - Fees or Assessments Other Than Those Chargeable Under Union Constitution and By-Laws - Section 150B. No labor union, or person acting in its...

Section 150c - Improper Expenditure of Withholdings or Deductions From Wages; Penalties - Section 150C. Any person having employees in his service who...

Section 151 - Payment on Pay Day Before Close of Working Hours - Section 151. Persons carrying on any manufacturing business employing one...

Section 152 - Deductions for Coming Late to Work - Section 152. There shall not be deducted from the wages...

Section 152a - Service Charges and Tips; Tip Pools; Penalties - Section 152A. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 153 - Grading Work of Weavers; Imperfections Affecting Wages; Conditions Precedent to Fines - Section 153. No system used by manufacturers for grading the...

Section 154 - Employer's Fine Upon Weaver for Imperfections; Violations of Statutes - Section 154. No employer shall impose a fine upon an...

Section 155 - Specifications as to Work and Wages for Weavers, Frame Tenders, Warpers, Web Drawers and Operatives Paid by the Pound - Section 155. The occupier or manager of every cotton factory...

Section 156 - Specifications and Tickets; Posting and Attaching; Contents; Pick Clocks; Excess of Maximum Lengths; Violation of Statute - Section 156. The occupier or manager of every textile factory...

Section 157 - Violation of Sec. 155; Interference With Inspectors - Section 157. Violation of any provision of section one hundred...

Section 157a - Employees Paid by Piece; Tickets Stating Basis of Remuneration; Posting Statement of Amount of Pay Earned - Section 157A. Every person operating a factory or workshop shall...

Section 158 - Stopped Machinery; Deductions From Wages; Making Up Lost Time; Penalty - Section 158. Deductions shall not be made from the wages...

Section 158a - Work Without Compensation - Section 158A. Whoever requires or permits any person, as a...

Section 159 - Discharge of Employee Without Notice - Section 159. A person engaged in manufacturing who requires from...

Section 159b - Reimbursement of Expenses for Medical Examinations - Section 159B. Any employer who requests or requires a person...

Section 159c - Staffing Agencies; Notice of Information Concerning Employee's Assignment; Fees Prohibited; Transportation Services; Prohibited Activities by Staffing - Section 159C. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...

Section 173 - Destruction or Sale of Records and Papers - Section 173. The commissioner, having first obtained authority from the...

Section 175 - Bells, Whistles and Gongs - Section 175. Manufacturers and others employing workmen may, for the...

Section 176 - Non-Resident as Special Police Officer - Section 176. If, in an emergency, special police officers are...

Section 177 - Police Assistance in Protecting Property; Non-Residents Assisting With Arms; Liability in Damages - Section 177. A person may, if his property is in...

Section 177a - Contract Exempting Employer From Liability to Employee - Section 177A. No person shall, by a special contract with...

Section 177b - Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians; Responding to Emergencies; Discharge From Other Employment - Section 177B. No employer shall discharge or take any other...

Section 178 - Leave of Absence From Work for Voting - Section 178. No owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing,...

Section 178a - Payment of Wages of Intestate Employee; Officer or Employee of Commonwealth or Subdivision - Section 178A. Wages or salary not in excess of one...

Section 178b - Deductions From Salary for Certain Financial Institutions; Credit Union Bonds; Withdrawal of Authorization by Employee; Attachment or Execution; Pension Money Paid to Credit Unions; Authorization - Section 178B. The state treasurer, the treasurer of any county,...

Section 178c - Sum Owed Estate of Officer or Employee of Political Subdivisions Paid to Husband, Widow or Next of Kin - Section 178C. Whenever any officer or employee or former officer...

Section 178e - Group Insurance; Disposition of Dividends - Section 178E. If a dividend is declared or a reduction...

Section 178o - Group Insurance Termination; Notice of Date to Employee - Section 178O. An employer terminating employment of an employee insured...

Section 179 - Placards Posted to Inform Employees - Section 179. The department may require employers to post in...

Section 179a - Preference to Citizens in Awarding Public Work Contracts; Violations - Section 179A. In the awarding of contracts for public work...

Section 179b - Notice to Commissioner of Commencement or Change of Location of Business; Violations - Section 179B. The owner of every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical,...

Section 179c - Collective Bargaining Agreements; Successor Clauses - Section 179C. Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer...

Section 180 - Violation of Chapter Provisions With No Specific Penalty - Section 180. Whoever violates a provision of this chapter for...

Section 180a - Violation of Closing Laws - Section 180A. Whoever violates any provisions of the second paragraph...

Section 181 - Retirement or Health and Welfare Funds; Failure of Employer to Make Payments - Section 181. It shall be unlawful for any employer who...

Section 182 - Standards of Corporate Behavior; Companies Financed With Assistance of Quasi-Public Agencies - Section 182. Any person utilizing financing issued, insured, or subsidized...

Section 183 - Severance Pay Upon Termination Following Transfer of Control of Employer; Definitions - Section 183. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 184 - Severance Pay Following Transfer of Control or Attempted Transfer of Control of Registered Corporation; Definitions - Section 184. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 185 - Retaliation Against Employees Reporting Violations of Law or Risks to Public Health, Safety or Environment; Remedies - Section 185. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 186 - Broadcasting Industry; Noncompete Agreements - Section 186. Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes...

Section 187 - Health Care Providers; Protection From Retaliatory Action by Health Care Facilities - Section 187. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 189 - Employer Medical Assistance Contribution - Section 189. (a) Each employer, subject to sections 14, 14A...

Section 190 - Rights Relating to Pay and Other Terms or Conditions of Employment for Domestic Workers - Section 190. (a) As used in this section and in...

Section 191 - Conduct Constituting Unlawful Discriminatory Practice Against Domestic Workers; Enforcement - Section 191. (a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice...

Section 192 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 193 to 203 Relating to Professional Employer Agreements - Section 192. As used in this section and in sections...

Section 193 - Effect of Professional Employer Agreements on Collective Bargaining or Rights of Employees Under Any Applicable State or Federal Law - Section 193. (a) Nothing contained in sections 192 to 203,...

Section 194 - Licensing, Registration or Certification Requirements Under Professional Employer Agreements - Section 194. (a) Nothing in sections 192 to 203, inclusive,...

Section 195 - Tax Credits and Other Economic Incentives; Covered Employees Deemed as Client's Employees Under Professional Employer Agreements; Status as Small, Minority-Owned, Disadvantaged, Woman-Owned Business or Other Underutilized Class of Enter... - Section 195. (a) For purposes of the determination of tax...

Section 196 - Registration Required for Professional Employer Services; Information Provided With Application; Interim Operating Permit; Renewal; Reporting and Financial Requirements; Combined or Consolidated Financial Statements; Forms, Filings and... - Section 196. (a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 192...

Section 197 - Rights and Responsibilities Under Professional Employer Agreement; Notice; Termination - Section 197. (a) Except as specifically provided in sections 192...

Section 198 - Professional Employer Agreements; Taxes, Assessments or Mandated Expenditures on per Capita or per Employee Basis, or Upon Total Payroll Basis - Section 198. (a) A tax assessed or an assessment or...

Section 199 - Workers' Compensation for Covered Employees Under Professional Employer Agreements - Section 199. (a) Workers' compensation shall be provided to covered...

Section 200 - Unemployment Insurance for Employees Covered by Professional Employer Agreement - Section 200. (a) For purposes of chapter 151A, covered employees...

Section 201 - Employee Count Under Professional Employer Agreements - Section 201. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, for...

Section 202 - Prohibited Acts Relating to Professional Employer Services; Disciplinary Actions; Complaints; Hearing; Sanctions - Section 202. (a) A person shall not knowingly and intentionally:...

Section 203 - Failure of Professional Employer Organization to Pay Wages in Accordance With Chapters 148 and 151 - Section 203. Wages shall be paid in accordance with section...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title XXI - Labor and Industries Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries

Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXI - Labor and Industries
Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries