Labour Laws For In Massachusetts
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The FLSA does not limit the number of hours per day or per week that employees aged 16 years and older can be required to work.
Massachusetts has a right-to-work law, meaning that employees can choose whether or not they wish to join a union without impacting their ability to be employed. In Massachusetts, 12.6% of the wage and salary workers were union members in 2023, higher than the federal average of 10%.
Massachusetts' blue laws contain 55 exemptions allowing different types of businesses to operate on Sundays and certain covered holidays. Some types of retailers engaged in the sale of goods have their own specific exemptions and therefore do not have to comply with the “voluntariness” requirement.
Massachusetts General Law chapter 149, section 100, provides that "no person shall be required to work for more than six hours during a calendar day without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a meal." Iron works, glass works, paper mills, letter press establishments, print works, bleaching works, and dyeing ...
Massachusetts Law allows employers of hourly workers to round clock time by 15 minutes, 6 minutes, or 5 minutes with the condition that “working time averages out over a reasonable period of time so that an employee is fully compensated for all the time he or she actually worked.”
Contact the Department of Labor Standards Main office: Department of Labor Standards. General information: (617) 626-6975. General feedback: DLSfeedback@state.ma. Please contact the individual program listed below for specific information.
A BOFE representative will review the report to determine whether to investigate the employer. If BOFE starts an investigation, it may inspect the worksite, issue citations for violations, work with the employer to correct the problem, and collect any unpaid wages owed to workers.
File a Report Or, call the Attorney General's Fair Labor hotline at 617-727-3465.
It's simple. An employee can call a special telephone number, known as a 'hotline', or they can write out/record a message on their phone or PC and submit it through the online form where they can provide the necessary information and choose whether to send the report anonymously or put their name to it.
