Section 148D. The executive office of health and human services, in consultation with the attorney general, shall develop and implement a multilingual outreach program to inform employees, parents, and persons who are under the care of a health care provider about the availability of earned sick time under this section. This program shall include the distribution of notices and other written materials in English and in other languages to all child care and elder care providers, domestic violence shelters, schools, hospitals, community health centers, and other health care providers.

Section 149. A justice or clerk of a district court, or a trial justice, may upon the application of any employee issue a summons to an employer to appear and show cause why a warrant should not issue against him for a violation of section one hundred and forty-eight. Upon the return of such summons and after a hearing the justice may issue a warrant upon the complaint of any such employee.

Section 15. With the approval of the associate commissioners and the assistant commissioner, the commissioner may divide the commonwealth into inspection districts, and assign the necessary number of inspectors thereto.

This legal document, governed by Massachusetts General Law, specifically addresses the violation of certain sections related to labor and industries. It outlines the defenses that can be used in such cases, including the attachment of wages, valid assignments, set-offs, absence of the employee during payment, or actual tender of wages. The document also states that a payment of wages after the complaint has been filed cannot be used as a defense.

This section of the Massachusetts General Law governs the notification of deductions from wages. It applies to every person making deductions from wages of any employee for social security, unemployment compensation benefits, pension, vacation or health and welfare funds, state taxes, federal taxes, dues check-off and credit unions. It also applies to every person engaged in contracting or sub-contracting, highway or building construction projects or public works construction who is party to an agreement to make contributions for specified purposes.

Section 150B. No labor union, or person acting in its behalf, shall require any person, as a condition of securing or continuing employment, to pay any fee or assessment other than such initiation fees, dues and assessments as are, by the constitution and by-laws of such union, chargeable upon members thereof. Any union or person violating any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars.

Section 150C. Any person having employees in his service who withholds or deducts wages from employees for the purpose of purchasing or contributing toward the purchase of a blanket or general policy of insurance pursuant to section one hundred and ten of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and who fails to purchase such coverage or keep such coverage in force shall be punished by one or any combination of the following: by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than six months, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, by being required to reimburse employees for any wages withheld or deducted that were not put toward the use for which they were withheld or deducted, or by being required to pay for all costs incurred by an employee that would have been paid for or reimbursed by insurance if such insurance coverage had been in force.

Section 151. Persons carrying on any manufacturing business employing one hundred or more persons shall, on the day chosen as pay day, pay such of their employees as are on that day working in the manufacturing establishment, before the close of the regular working hours.

Section 152. There shall not be deducted from the wages of an employee in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or from the wages of a mechanic, workman or laborer, on account of the employee’s coming late to work, a sum in excess of the proportionate wage which would have been earned during the time actually lost. Whoever violates this or the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.

This section of the Massachusetts General Law governs service charges, tips, and tip pools in establishments where food or beverages are served. It defines various terms such as wait staff employee, service employee, service bartender, employer, and patron. The section prohibits employers from demanding or accepting any payment or deduction from a tip or service charge given to wait staff employees, service employees, or service bartenders by a patron. It also prohibits employers from causing or permitting wait staff employees, service employees, or service bartenders to participate in a tip pool that includes individuals who are not part of these employee categories.