Massachusetts Code — 149
Browse 315 sections in division 149 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Definitions
- § 2. Enforcement of chapter
- § 3. Inspections and investigations
- § 4. Reports of diseases
- § 5. Investigations of industrial conditions; complaints; prosecutions
- § 6. Safety devices and means to prevent accidents and diseases generally; fees for structural painting
- § 6A. Monitoring, inspection and investigation of work involving asbestos
- § 6B. License for business activities involving asbestos; fee
- § 6C. Health and safety of general public and asbestos workers; rules and regulations
- § 6D. Complaints by employees relating to asbestos; retaliation by employer
- § 6E. Violations of workplace standards relating to asbestos; cease and desist orders
- § 6F. Penalties for violations of Secs. 6B to 6E
- § 6G. Release or waiver of damages caused by asbestos
- § 7. Committees for investigations and recommendation of regulations
- § 8. Notices and hearings before adoption of regulations and orders; effective dates
- § 9. Appeals; suspensions pending hearings; enforcement of orders; other remedies
- § 10. Entry of places of employment for investigations
- § 11. Reports by physicians generally
- § 11A. Occupational lead registry; blood lead testing reports; regulations; enforcement
- § 12. Regulations prevailing over regulations of workmen's compensation insurer
- § 13. Violations of regulations or orders
- § 14. Annual reports of commissioner
- § 15. Inspection districts; assignment of inspectors
- § 16. Receipt of gift by inspector
- § 17. Entry of places of employment for examinations and investigations; access to records
- § 18. Duties of industrial health inspectors relative to minors
- § 18A. Sanitary and safety conditions; tools; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18B. Confined spaces; ventilation; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18C. Power transmission equipment; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18D. Ropes, hooks and cranes; use and operation; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18E. Safety precautions in dangerous undertakings; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18F. Explosives; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18G. Industrial truck and internal combustion equipment; operation; construction of docks; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18H. Stop signals; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 18I. Penalty for violation of Secs. 18A to 18H; longshore and waterfront operations
- § 19. Prevention of employment
- § 19A. Copy of medical report for employee
- § 19B. Lie detector tests; use as condition of employment; penalty; civil action
- § 19C. Employment of aliens restricted; regulations; penalty
- § 20. Coercion of agreement not to join a labor organization
- § 20A. Relief afforded by contract relative to membership in a labor or employer organization
- § 20B. Liability for unlawful acts of officers, members or agents of an organization
- § 20C. Definitions
- § 20D. Solicitation, acceptance or payment of money to encourage or discourage formation or functioning of a labor organization
- § 20E. Business combination transactions; labor contracts; definitions; remedies
- § 21. False notices or advertisement for help or employment
- § 22. Advertising for or soliciting employees during labor troubles; notice to employment agency; employment of children
- § 22A. Professional strikebreakers; obstruction of picketing
- § 23. Filling place of employees; size of letters mentioning labor troubles; penalty
- § 23A. Armed guards during labor troubles; qualifications; violation of statute
- § 23B. Use of civil defense personnel in labor disputes
- § 24. Communications and conduct during labor disputes
- § 24A. Dismissal or refusal to employ certain persons on account of age; penalty
- § 24B. Contract provisions preventing employment of certain persons on account of age
- § 24C. Investigation of complaints of discrimination; ascertainment of age of employees; examination and transcript of records
- § 24D. Records of ages of employees; copy furnished to commissioner; violation of statute
- § 24E. Hindering investigation of age discrimination; refusal of information
- § 24F. Discharge of employee for furnishing evidence or testifying in connection with discrimination complaint; penalty
- § 24G. Publication of name of employer found to be violation of provisions of Secs. 24A to 24J; summons to show cause; liability for damages
- § 24H. Appeal from decision of commissioner
- § 24I. Inapplicability of Secs. 24A to 24J to farm laborers
- § 24J. Severability of Secs. 24A to 24I
- § 24L. Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act
- § 25. Lodging, board and trade of public employees; statute part of employment contract
- § 26. Public works; preference to veterans and citizens; wages
- § 27. List of jobs; classification; schedule of wages; penalty; civil action
- § 27A. Appeals from classifications and wage determinations
- § 27B. Records of employees; payroll records; statements of compliance
- § 27C. Penalties for violations of certain sections by employers, contractors, subcontractors or their employees
- § 27D. ''Construction'' and ''constructed'' defined
- § 27E. Employment of residents in highway districts
- § 27F. Wages of operators of rented equipment; agreements; penalty; civil action
- § 27G. Wages of employees of moving contractors; contracts; injunctive relief; damages
- § 27H. Wages of employees of maintenance or cleaning contractors; contracts; civil action
- § 28. Right of action against city or town for labor; filing statement; fee; limitations
- § 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
- § 29A. Enforcement of surety bonds by persons furnishing labor or materials on private building projects
- § 29B. Waiver or cancellation of payment bond
- § 29C. Indemnification as part of contract
- § 29D. Surety company; bonds
- § 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 payment
- § 29F. Payment of retainage in private construction projects
- § 30. Eight hour day and six day week; emergencies; work on highways
- § 30A. Tours of duty and hours of work of state employees; regulations
- § 30B. Overtime of state employees; regulations
- § 30C. Work week of uniformed members of state police; overtime service; compensation; rules and regulations
- § 31. Eight hour day for towns and public works for towns; emergencies; acceptance of statute relating to employees of commonwealth
- § 32. Scope of words ''laborers, workmen and mechanics'' and ''requiring''
- § 33. Hours of labor to make up Saturday half holiday
- § 33A. Five day and forty hour week for cities and towns; emergencies; overtime; reduction of compensation
- § 33B. Five day week and eight hour day for cities and towns; overtime; reduction of compensation
- § 33C. City and town employees; overtime; effective date
- § 33D. Blood donations; leave of absence without loss of pay
- § 33E. Leave of absence to serve as organ donor; state, county and certain municipal employees
- § 34. Public contracts; stipulation as to hours and days of work; void contracts
- § 34A. Contracts for public works; workers' compensation insurance; breach of contract; enforcement and violation of statute
- § 34B. Contracts for public works; wages for reserve police officer
- § 34C. Application of Secs. 30, 34 and 35
- § 35. Violation of Sec. 30, 31 or 34
- § 36. Nonapplicability of eight hour day and six day week statutes
- § 37. Nine hour day for towns
- § 38. Annual vacation for employees of commonwealth
- § 39. Hours of labor in institutions; employees with less hours under other statutes; emergencies
- § 41. Saturday half holiday for commonwealth
- § 42. Work by employees of commonwealth on day work basis
- § 43. Nondiscrimination
- § 44. Service by veterans on Memorial Day
- § 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
- § 44B. Plans and specifications; bid deposits
- § 44C. Suspension or debarment of contractors
- § 44D. Submission of bid or offer; application for certification
- § 44E. Filing of bids; forms; modular buildings
- § 44F. Plans and specifications; sub-bids; form; contents
- § 44G. Allowances; alternates; weather protection devices
- § 44H. Enforcement
- § 44I. Severability of Secs. 44A to 44H
- § 44J. Invitations to bid; notice; contents; violations; penalty
- § 44M. Energy systems; life-cycle cost estimates
- § 45. Work on holidays
- § 46. Work for time lost by holidays
- § 47. Sunday work without a day off
- § 48. One day of rest in seven; operation of business on Sunday; violations
- § 49. Establishments not subject to Sunday work and rest days; railroads or railways
- § 50. Work not subject to Sunday work and rest days
- § 50A. One day of rest in seven for watchmen and employees maintaining fires, violations
- § 51. Posting list of employees working on Sunday; work on days of rest
- § 51A. Exemption for special circumstances; days of rest and Sunday business
- § 52. Time books; violation of statute
- § 52B. Employment applications; volunteer work as experience
- § 52C. Personnel records; review by employee; corrections; penalty
- § 52D. Family and medical leave; enforcement
- § 52E. Leave from work when employee or family member of employee has been victim of abusive behavior
- § 54. Core rooms where workers employed; investigations; regulations; violations
- § 56. Minors; restrictions on hours of work; posting notices; making up time lost by stoppage of machinery; employment by shifts; minors employed on farms
- § 57. Employment in violation of statute
- § 58. Elevator operators; minors
- § 60. Children under sixteen in general; school hours; night work; plays or musical comedies; fashion shows; hospitals
- § 61. Minors under sixteen; particular employments
- § 62. Minors under eighteen
- § 62A. Employment of vocational agricultural students
- § 63. Dangerous or injurious employment of minors; hearing and determination
- § 64. Employment of minors where liquor sold; taking or sending minors to immoral places
- § 65. Hours and days of, and time for, work of minors under sixteen; time in continuation school or courses of instruction
- § 66. Time of work for children; exceptions
- § 67. Days and hours of work for boys or girls under eighteen
- § 68. Time for work of minor messengers
- § 69. Children as newspaper vendors; restrictions; penalty
- § 70. Minors under sixteen as vendors and bootblacks, scavengers or other trade in street or public places; charge for badge for employment
- § 71. Issuance of badges to minors; proof of age; grounds for refusal to issue
- § 72. Badges; wearing; transfer; exhibition; regulations for issuing
- § 73. Time for work of minors under sixteen engaged as vendors, bootblacks, scavengers or in any other trade in streets or public places
- § 74. Posting of notice of hours of work of minor; employment at other times; changing terms
- § 75. Forms of notice furnished by attorney general
- § 76. Inspectors; duties; prosecutions
- § 77. Enforcement of statutes; supervisors of attendance; appointment; powers
- § 78. Employment of, and permitting work by, minors contrary to statutes; reports of violations
- § 78A. Written warnings and civil citations; appeal; penalties; criminal complaint
- § 79. Hindering inspectors, supervisors of attendance or department representatives; refusal of admittance or to give information
- § 80. Furnishing minors with articles for sale in, and encouragement of, violation of statutes
- § 81. Compelling or permitting minor to work in violation of statute; certification of false statement
- § 82. Violation of statutes by persons issuing badges or enforcing statutes
- § 83. Violation of statutes by minors; revocation of badge; refusal to surrender; working after revocation
- § 84. Service of summons or warrants
- § 85. Nonapplicability of Secs. 60 to 83
- § 86. Employment of children with permit; particular employments; filing, accessibility and return of, and failure to return, permit; list of employed children
- § 87. Employment permits in general; approval; return of evidence of age; certificate by town clerk; notice of child's violation of statute
- § 88. School record for employment permit; educational qualification; necessary school attendance
- § 89. Employment permits; contents; signatures; fee; duplicate; records; papers furnished by department; explanatory matter
- § 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
- § 91. Cessation of employment for non-attendance of continuation school; violation of statute
- § 92. Visiting to ascertain employment of children; reporting illegal employment; complaint; violation of statute
- § 93. Employment contrary to statute; taking minor to school; reporting evidence to court or justice; complaint; violation of statute
- § 94. Employment permits, educational certificates and lists of employed minors produced for inspection; evidence of illegal employment
- § 95. Minors 16 years or older who have not completed requirements for sixth grade; attendance at school
- § 95A. Work-study program exception to permit for employment requirement; exceptions
- § 96. Manual training and industrial education; effect of statutes
- § 100. Hours of work without interval for meal; duration; violation of statute
- § 101. Nonapplicability of statute relating to mealtimes and intervals for meals
- § 102. Labor during mealtime without knowledge of employer
- § 103. Seats for employees; violation of statute
- § 104. Children participants in public exhibitions; violation of statute
- § 105. License for theatrical exhibitions or shows in which children are employed
- § 105A. Discrimination on basis of gender in payment of wages prohibited; enforcement; unlawful practices; good faith self-evaluation of payment practices
- § 105B. Violation of Secs. 105A to 105C; discharge or discrimination because of complaint, proceedings or testimony; penalties
- § 105C. Entry of premises, and investigation to determine compliance with Secs. 105A to 105C
- § 105D. Parental leave; rights and benefits
- § 105E. Wage data reports; submission to state secretary; submission to executive office of labor and workforce development; violations
- § 105F. Pay range for particular and specific employment positions; retaliation or discrimination; enforcement; violations
- § 106. Drinking water; violation of statute; coverage of term ''industrial establishments''
- § 107. Water for humidifying purposes; violation of statute
- § 108. Thermometers for humidity and temperature; regulations; place; reading; record
- § 109. Nonapplicability of statute relating to thermometers; hygrometers; psychrometers; records
- § 110. Relative humidity limits
- § 111. Sources of water for humidifying purposes; clean air ducts
- § 112. Failure to comply with Secs. 108 to 111; penalty
- § 113. Light, ventilation, cleanliness, sanitation and heat in establishments
- § 114. Investigations and suggestions relative to eyes and vision
- § 115. Devices and means to prevent injury to eyes; order; compliance; violation of statute
- § 116. Investigations as to light; notice to change; failure to comply with order
- § 117. Ventilation
- § 118. Means to diminish inhalation of dust
- § 119. Hoods or hoppers and suction pipes for emery or buffing wheels or belts
- § 120. Form and place of hoods or hoppers; size and speed of blowers; approval by attorney general
- § 121. Nonapplicability of statutes relating to emery and buffing machinery
- § 122. Violation of statutes relating to ventilation, dust and emery and buffing machinery
- § 123. Inspections relative to apparatus for emery and buffing machinery; complaint; prosecution
- § 124. Communication between engineer's room and machinery room
- § 125. Violation of statute relating to communication
- § 126. Fastening doors during business hours; violation of statute
- § 127. Guards for, and cleaning of, machinery; disconnection and removal of safety devices
- § 128. Traversing carriage of a self-acting mule traveling close to fixed structure
- § 129. Safeguards for hoistways, hatchways and well holes; closing trapdoors
- § 129A. Shoring trenches for local governments; graves excepted
- § 129B. Stilts; penalty for requiring or knowingly permitting use in construction
- § 129C. Installation or repair of live electric wires or electrical equipment; assistance; safety equipment; penalty
- § 129D. Riding in man-basket carried by hoisting machinery for bungee jumping or other approved activity
- § 130. Explosives or inflammable materials; storage and use near egress
- § 131. Guards for loom shuttles; violation of statute
- § 132. Suction shuttles; shuttle or thread touching lips; violation of statute
- § 133. Water closets, toilets and washing facilities; regulations; definitions of ''industrial establishments'' and ''railroad establishments''
- § 134. Necessary changes; action for proportion of expense
- § 135. Prosecutions; necessity of neglect to make changes; notice; liability of corporate officer
- § 136. Violation of public health laws; notice to town board of health; enforcement
- § 137. Foundry toilet rooms and water closets; failure to comply with statute
- § 138. Injuring toilet appliances
- § 139. Lockers and clothes receptacles of employees; violation of statute
- § 141. Medical and surgical chests; accommodations for treatment of injured or ill persons; facilities for heating food; violation of statute
- § 141A. Lifting heavy objects in textile factories
- § 142. Sanitary material for cleaning printing presses
- § 142A. Marked receptacles for benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substances hazardous to health
- § 142B. Marked receptacles for materials containing benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substances hazardous to health
- § 142C. Markings; clear and conspicuous; size; place
- § 142D. Receptacles exempt from marking requirements
- § 142E. Reports concerning material hazardous to health
- § 142F. Violation of Secs. 142A to 142C; failure to mark receptacles; removal or defacement of marks; penalty
- § 142G. Enforcement of statutes and regulations
- § 143. Definitions applicable to Secs. 143 to 144H
- § 143A. Protection from undue competition and of health and well-being of workers
- § 144. Unlawful industrial homework
- § 145. Investigation of industries; order declaring industrial homework unlawful
- § 146. Hearing preceding order; notice; place; effective date of order
- § 146A. Distribution of materials and articles; necessity of place of employment in commonwealth
- § 147. Employer's permit; person to whom materials or articles may be delivered; effect of strike; payment of fees into treasury
- § 147A. Homeworker's certificate; place of work; work performed by others; qualifications of applicant and home; strike against employer
- § 147B. Employer's name and address affixed to articles or container of goods delivered for homework
- § 147C. Work in violation of statutes; removal, retention and disposition of articles; notice
- § 147D. Record of homeworkers and work
- § 147E. Regulations; violations; inspections and investigations
- § 147F. Attendance of witnesses and production of books and papers; summons and court order; fees; oaths; depositions
- § 147G. Additional penalties
- § 147H. Educational and philanthropic organizations; homework performed under supervision of commission for the blind
- § 148. Payment of wages; commissions; exemption by contract; persons deemed employers; provision for cashing check or draft; violation of statute
- § 148A. Employees seeking rights under provisions of this chapter; discharge or discrimination; punishment
- § 148B. Persons performing service not authorized under this chapter deemed employees; exception
- § 148C. Earned sick time
- § 148D. Earned sick time outreach program
- § 149. Summons and warrant for violations of Sec. 148
- § 150. Complaint for violation of certain sections; defenses; payment after complaint; assignments; loan of wages to employer; civil action
- § 150A. Notification of deductions
- § 150B. Fees or assessments other than those chargeable under union constitution and by-laws
- § 150C. Improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages; penalties
- § 151. Payment on pay day before close of working hours
- § 152. Deductions for coming late to work
- § 152A. Service charges and tips; tip pools; penalties
- § 153. Grading work of weavers; imperfections affecting wages; conditions precedent to fines
- § 154. Employer's fine upon weaver for imperfections; violations of statutes
- § 155. Specifications as to work and wages for weavers, frame tenders, warpers, web drawers and operatives paid by the pound
- § 156. Specifications and tickets; posting and attaching; contents; pick clocks; excess of maximum lengths; violation of statute
- § 157. Violation of Sec. 155; interference with inspectors
- § 157A. Employees paid by piece; tickets stating basis of remuneration; posting statement of amount of pay earned
- § 158. Stopped machinery; deductions from wages; making up lost time; penalty
- § 158A. Work without compensation
- § 159. Discharge of employee without notice
- § 159B. Reimbursement of expenses for medical examinations
- § 159C. Staffing agencies; notice of information concerning employee's assignment; fees prohibited; transportation services; prohibited activities by staffing
- § 173. Destruction or sale of records and papers
- § 175. Bells, whistles and gongs
- § 176. Non-resident as special police officer
- § 177. Police assistance in protecting property; non-residents assisting with arms; liability in damages
- § 177A. Contract exempting employer from liability to employee
- § 177B. Volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians; responding to emergencies; discharge from other employment
- § 178. Leave of absence from work for voting
- § 178A. Payment of wages of intestate employee; officer or employee of commonwealth or subdivision
- § 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
- § 178C. Sum owed estate of officer or employee of political subdivisions paid to husband, widow or next of kin
- § 178E. Group insurance; disposition of dividends
- § 178O. Group insurance termination; notice of date to employee
- § 179. Placards posted to inform employees
- § 179A. Preference to citizens in awarding public work contracts; violations
- § 179B. Notice to commissioner of commencement or change of location of business; violations
- § 179C. Collective bargaining agreements; successor clauses
- § 180. Violation of chapter provisions with no specific penalty
- § 180A. Violation of closing laws
- § 181. Retirement or health and welfare funds; failure of employer to make payments
- § 182. Standards of corporate behavior; companies financed with assistance of quasi-public agencies
- § 183. Severance pay upon termination following transfer of control of employer; definitions
- § 184. Severance pay following transfer of control or attempted transfer of control of registered corporation; definitions
- § 185. Retaliation against employees reporting violations of law or risks to public health, safety or environment; remedies
- § 186. Broadcasting industry; noncompete agreements
- § 187. Health care providers; protection from retaliatory action by health care facilities