Workplace Rights Forms and Publications

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Guide to Workplace Rights and Responsibilities
Non-Payment of Wage and Workplace Complaint
Prevailing Wage Complaint
Anti-Retaliation Poster
Child Labor Complaint
Youth Employment
Wage and Hour Poster
Public Bidding
Advisories

 

Guide to Workplace Rights and Responsibilities

English brochure: Attorney General's Guide to Workplace Rights and Responsibilities (PDF) 
Cape Verdean: Guia di Direitos e Responsabilidadis na Local di Trabadjo (PDF)   
Chinese: 工作场所权利与 责任指南 (PDF) 
Haitian: Gid sou Dwa ak Responsabilite nan Travay (PDF) 
Khmer: Guide to Workplace Rights and Responsibilities (PDF) 
Portuguese: Guia sobre Direitos e Responsabilidades no Ambiente de Trabalho (PDF) 
Russian: Пособие: права и обязанности на рабочем месте (PDF) 
Spanish: Guía sobre Derechos y Responsabilidades en el Lugar de Trabajo (PDF) 
Vietnamese: Hướng dẫn về các quyền lợi và nghĩa vụ nơi làm việc (PDF) 

 

Non-Payment of Wage and Workplace Complaint

English Form: Non-Payment of Wage and Workplace Complaint Form (PDF) 

Portuguese Form and Instructions: Instruções de Queixa de Salário Forma; Formulário de Queixa Trabalhista (PDF) 

Spanish Form and Instructions: Instrucciones para El Formulario de Queja; Queja de los Salarios Impagados (PDF) 

Chinese Form: 有關拖欠工資及工作場所投訴表格 (PDF)  (Chinese)

 

Prevailing Wage Complaint

English Form: Prevailing Wage Rate Complaint Form (PDF) 

Portuguese Form and Instructions: Instruções de Queixa de Salário Forma; Predominante Forma de Queixa de Índice de Salário (PDF) 

Spanish Form and Instructions: Instrucciones para El Formulario de Queja; Queja del Salario Prevaleciente (PDF) 

 

Anti-Retaliation Posters

• Anti-Retaliation Protections Under the Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws 
• Proteção anti-represália conforme as leis salarial de Massachusetts 
• Protecciones contra las represalias según las leyes laborales de Massachusetts 

 

Child Labor Complaint

English Form: Child Labor Complaint Form (PDF) 

Portuguese Form: Formulário de Queixa de Trabalho de Menores (PDF) 

Spanish Form: Queja de Violación de Trabajo de Menores (PDF) 

 

Youth Employment

Employment Permit Application for 14 through 17 Year-Olds (PDF)

Labor Lowdown Campaign 2007:

• Late Night car card (PDF)  file size 1MB
• Work Hazards car card (PDF)  file size 1MB
• Minimum Wage car card (PDF)  file size 1MB
• Locking Up car card (PDF)  file size 1MB

Child Labor Bulletin for the 2007 Winter Holiday Season (PDF) 

Youth Employment Outreach 2008:

• laborlowdown.pdf 
• Você trabalha? (PDF)  ("Do You Work?" poster, Portuguese)
• ¿Trabajas? (PDF)  ("Do You Work?" poster, Spanish)
• Letter to Parents/Guardians (PDF) 
• Youth Employment Laws Fact Sheet (PDF) 

Child Labor Posters

• Child Labor Poster (Child Labor Poster, English) 
• 马萨诸塞州未成年人劳工法 (Child Labor Poster, Chinese) 
• Lwa sou Travay Timoun nan Massachusetts (Child Labor Poster, Haitian Creole) 
• Child Labor Poster, Khmer 
• Leis de Trabalho Infantil em Massachusetts (Child Labor Poster, Portuguese) 
• Leyes de Empleo Juvenil en Massachusetts (Child Labor Poster, Spanish) 
• Các luật về lao động trẻ em tại Massachusetts (Child Labor Poster, Vietnamese) 
• Leis di Trabadju Infantil na Massachusetts (Child Labor Poster, Cape Verdean) 
• Законы о детском труде в штате Массачусетс (Child Labor Poster, Russian) 
• Закони про дитячу працю в Массачусетсі (Child Labor Poster, Ukrainian) 

 

Wage and Hour Poster

• Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws (PDF)  file size 2MB
• Leyes respecto a los salarios y horarios de Massachusetts (PDF)  (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Spanish)
• Leis salariais de Massachusetts (PDF)  file size 3MB (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Portuguese)
• Leis di Saláriu i Oráriu di stadu di Massachusetts (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Cape Verdean) 
• 马萨诸塞州工资与工时法 (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Chinese) 
• Lwa nan Massachusetts sou Salè ak sou Lè Travay (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Hatian Creole) 
• Các luật về tiền lương và giờ làm việc tại tiểu bang Massachusetts (Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws, Vietnamese)  
• Khmer - Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws 

 

Public Bidding

General Guidelines Regarding Attorney General Bid Protest Cases (PDF) 

 

Advisories

Advisory on the Massachusetts Independent Contractor/Misclassification Law: "An Advisory from the Attorney General's Fair Labor Division on M.G.L. c. 149, s. 148B," 2008/1 (PDF) 

Advisory on Wages and Tips: "An Advisory from the Attorney General's Fair Labor Division on an Act Protecting the Wages and Tips of Certain Employees," 2004/3 (PDF) 

Advisory on Vacation Policies: "An Advisory from the Attorney General's Fair Labor Division on Vacation Policies," 1999/1 (PDF) 

Advisory on Small Necessities Leave: "An Advisory from the Attorney General's Fair Labor Division on an Act Providing Employees Leave for Certain Family Obligations," 1998/1 (PDF) 

Advisory on the OSHA 10 Act: An Advisory from the Massachusetts Attorney General's Fair Labor Division on Chapter 306 of the Acts of 2004, An Act Relative to the Health and Safety on Public Construction Projects, 2008/2