In a notable shift toward inclusivity, the Healey-Driscoll administration has rolled out multilingual support for the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave program. Residents can now navigate the benefits system in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, or...
Employment Law
Massachusetts Parents Entitled to Take Off From Work For Personal/Family Needs
The Massachusetts Small Necessities Leave Act (SNLA) gives you up to 24 hours of job secured unpaid time off from work each year to Go to your child’s school activities, Go with your child to the doctor or dentist, or Go with your elderly relative to the doctor or...
Is it Illegal for Massachusetts Employees to Skip Their Meal Breaks?
Most, if not all people know that you are entitled to a lunch break while at work. As a matter of fact, it's Massachusetts law that workers have a right to at least a 30-minute meal break for each six hours worked in a calendar day. This is according to mass.gov....
Do Massachusetts Employees Have to Pay for Their Own Uniforms?
You know how it goes when you start a new job. You train, get your work quarters set up the way you want, and get an overall lay of the land before you start diving into your new place of employment. Many jobs also require that you wear a uniform. There are plenty of...
Have You Ever Heard of The Massachusetts Workplace 3 Hour Rule ?
A Massachusetts workplace law or rule that you may or may not have heard of in Massachusetts is the 3-Hour Rule. Sometimes unexpected things happen at work and you have to leave or are asked to leave prematurely. You may be wondering, what will happen with your pay...
Can I get Unemployment Insurance if I quit my job?
If you quit your Massachusetts job and you want Unemployment Insurance (UI), you must have had a good reason for quitting. There are two kinds of reasons the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) accepts: Serious employer-related reasons, called "good cause...
Has Your Massachusetts Employer Denied You Meal Break Time?
Massachusetts based Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. d/b/a Family Dollar has been cited $1.5 million in penalties for more than 3,900 violations of the state’s meal break laws, by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office (AG). Family Dollar was issued two citations by the...
Requesting Your Personnel Records From a Massachusetts Employer
The Massachusetts personnel record law, M.G.L. chapter 149, § 52C, allows a current or former employee to get a copy of their personnel file. ''Personnel record'', a record kept by an employer that identifies an employee, to the extent that the record is used or has...
Are You a Victim of Wage Theft by Your Massachusetts Employer?
Wage theft is more common than armed robbery in our country and three times as costly to the economy. Here in Massachusetts, wage theft costs individual workers more than $1 billion a year in earned wages. This hurts our communities and all the state’s taxpayers. The...
Are You a Victim of Wage Theft By Your Massachusetts Employer?
Wage theft in Massachusetts often goes unpunished despite state systems meant to combat it. Most recently, a Dorchester wholesale bakery and five temp agencies that helped staff the bakery have been cited over $440,000 for 30 wage and labor violations by the...