Massachusetts
This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the taxation and reporting in Massachusetts of health insurance benefits for those in same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships.
As mandated by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, all employers must provide the Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance Pamphlet (0590-A) to an employee upon termination.
A Massachusetts employer may use this model form if it requires employees to verify in writing that they have used earned sick time for an allowable purpose.
Massachusetts has released a sample earned sick time policy that an employer can use as guidance to inform employees of their rights.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of workers' compensation requirements in Massachusetts, including those related to workplace posters, covered employers and employees, compensable injuries, employer defenses to claims, medical and other benefits, calculation of benefits, and retaliation and interference protections.
Massachusetts law requires covered employers to keep records about employees' wages and hours, including the minimum wage tip credit. This guide provides an in-depth review of Massachusetts employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to wage and hour recordkeeping.
Massachusetts employers seeking to inform employees and their supervisors about legally required meal breaks and to demonstrate compliance with the Massachusetts meal break law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Massachusetts employers that provide paid vacation and seek to indicate that Massachusetts employees will receive pay for accrued but unused vacation upon termination of employment should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Massachusetts employers operating a manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment or workshop in Massachusetts that seek to inform employees, including supervisors, that they will receive one day of rest in each seven-day work period and to demonstrate compliance with Massachusetts law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.