As used in KRS 336.010 to 336.160, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) Commissioner means commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards under the direction and supervision of...

(1) The secretary of labor shall have the duties, responsibilities, power, and authority relating to labor, wages and hours, occupational safety and health of employees, child labor,...

(1) The Department of Workplace Standards shall be headed by a commissioner and shall be divided for administrative purposes into the Divisions of Employment Standards, Apprenticeship and...

The commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint necessary deputies, attorneys, statisticians, inspectors and other employees and fix their salaries according to law. These...

(1) The Labor Cabinet shall exercise all administrative functions of the state concerned with employer-employee relationships, including the safety of workers and workers' compensation. (2) The...

The commissioner in person or by representative shall: (1) Investigate and ascertain the wages of all employees employed in this state. (2) Enter the place of business or employment of any...

(1) In the conduct of an investigation or hearing, the commissioner or any authorized deputy may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and parties and the production of books,...

(1) The department shall be furnished with a copy of all the laws and rulings of the secretary for health services affecting sanitary conditions in places of employment, not covered by the labor...

Within one (1) month after any employer begins to occupy a factory, workshop, mill or other place of employment he shall notify the department, in writing, of such occupancy. If the employer is a...

No person shall refuse or attempt to prevent the admission of any inspector of the department to any place which he is required by law to inspect, at any reasonable hour, or during the working...

The commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, may enter into cooperative agreements with appropriate agencies of the federal government, whereby Acts of Congress and regulations issued in...

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(1) It shall be the duty of the secretary, in order to prevent or minimize interruptions growing out of labor disputes, to assist parties to labor disputes to settle such disputes through...

In order to prevent or minimize interruptions growing out of labor disputes, employees and employers and their representatives, shall: (1) Exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain...

Any person acting as a mediator in a labor dispute pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, who receives information as a mediator relating to the labor dispute, shall not reveal such...

The secretary shall present biennial reports to the General Assembly giving statistical data relating to employment and unemployment in the state such as the hours and wages of employees, cost of...

(1) There is hereby created the Commonwealth of Kentucky Labor-Management Advisory Council which shall consist of eighteen (18) members. One (1) member of the council shall be the secretary of...

(1) The council shall function as an advisory agent of state government and provide leadership and assistance for labor and management in this state, and shall serve to effect improved...

The Office of Labor-Management Relations and Mediation shall, subject to appropriation from the General Assembly or funds made available to the office from any other public or private source,...

As used in KRS 336.1662 to 336.1664 unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Arbitrator means a neutral individual to whom the parties involved in a labor dispute submit their...

(1) The secretary shall: (a) Maintain a roster of qualified arbitrators from which arbitrators provided pursuant to this section shall be selected; (b) Refer or provide without charge, upon...

The secretary shall in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of KRS 336.1662 and 336.1663. ...

It shall be unlawful for any carrier or shipper of property, or any association of such carriers or shippers, to agree to pay or to pay, to or for the benefit of a labor organization, directly or...

It shall be unlawful for any labor organization to accept or receive or to agree to accept or receive from any carrier or shipper of property, or any association of such carriers or shippers, any...

(1) It shall be unlawful for any employer to require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination or the cost of furnishing any records required by the...

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(1) The commissioner, or any person authorized to act in his behalf, shall initiate enforcement of civil penalties imposed in KRS Chapters 336, 337, and 339. (2) Any civil penalty imposed pursuant...

(1) Upon proof that any person employed by the Labor Cabinet as a labor inspector has taken any part in any strike, lockout or similar labor dispute, he shall forfeit his office. (2) The following...

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) Commissioner means commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards under the direction and supervision of the...

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The General Assembly finds that occupational accidents and diseases produce personal injuries and illness including loss of life as well as economic loss. Therefore, the General Assembly declares...

As used in this chapter: (1) Employer shall mean any entity for whom a person is employed except those employers excluded in KRS 338.021. (2) Employee shall mean any person employed...

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(1) This chapter applies to all employers, employees, and places of employment throughout the Commonwealth except the following: (a) Employees of the United States government. (b) Employers,...

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(1) Each employer: (a) Shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or...

(1) There is hereby created in the Department of Workplace Standards a Program for Occupational Safety and Health. This program shall consist of a Division of Occupational Safety and Health...

Effective July 1, 1994, the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Program shall be expanded by sixteen (16) employees. These additional staff shall assist employers in their efforts to improve...

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(1) There is hereby established the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board consisting of the commissioner and twelve (12) members equally representing industry, labor, agriculture...

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(1) Occupational safety and health standards may be adopted, modified, or repealed by the board as it shall deem necessary. (2) Established federal standards and national consensus standards may...

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(1) There is hereby established the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission consisting of three (3) members appointed by the Governor on the basis of their experience and...

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(1) Hearings authorized by the provisions of this chapter may be conducted by a hearing officer appointed by the review commission to serve in its place. Said hearing officer may be a full-time...

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(1) Any party adversely affected or aggrieved by a final order of the review commission may appeal within thirty (30) days to the Franklin Circuit Court on the record for a review of such order....

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(1) In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the commissioner, or his authorized representative shall have the authority: (a) To enter without delay and advance notice any place of...

A representative of the employer and a representative authorized by the employees shall be given an opportunity to accompany the representative of the commissioner during the physical inspection...

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(1) Any employee, or representative of employees, who believes that a violation of an occupational safety and health standard exists that threatens physical harm, or that an imminent danger...

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(1) Whenever an authorized representative of the commissioner determines that conditions in any place of employment are of an imminent danger which reasonably could be expected to cause death or...

(1) If in the discretion of the commissioner it is believed that a place of employment, equipment, or practice is substantially dangerous to employees, or other persons, then the commissioner may...

(1) If upon inspection an authorized representative of the commissioner finds that an employer has violated any requirement of this chapter, a citation shall be issued to the employer. Each...

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(1) Any affected employer may apply to the commissioner of workplace standards for a rule or order for a variance from a standard promulgated under this chapter. Affected employees shall be given...

(1) The Department of Workplace Standards shall develop and maintain a program of collection, compilation, and analysis of occupational safety and health statistics. Each employer shall make, keep...

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All information obtained by the commissioner in connection with any inspection or proceeding under this chapter which might reveal a trade secret shall be considered confidential except that such...

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The Kentucky Department of Workplace Standards is empowered to administer the provisions of this chapter to employers, employees, and places of employment under the jurisdiction of the United...

It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, upon request of the commissioner, to bring all necessary civil or criminal actions for violations of the provisions of this chapter and to obtain...

In any personal injury or property damage lawsuit arising from the cleanup of asbestos, the demonstration that acts or omissions of a party to the lawsuit during the party's involvement in cleanup...

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(1) A lien may be placed on all property, both real and personal, of an employer who has violated any requirement of this chapter, if the citation issued by the commissioner has been upheld by a...

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(1) Any employer who willfully or repeatedly violates the requirement of any section of this chapter, including any standard, regulation, or order promulgated pursuant to this chapter, may be...

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As used in this chapter, commissioner shall mean the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards, under the direction and supervision of the secretary of the Labor Cabinet. ...

As used in KRS 339.220 to 339.450 gainful occupation does not include employment in farm work or in domestic service in a private home, nor occasional employment by a householder in connection...

No minor under fourteen (14) years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about or in connection with any gainful occupation at any time, except for employment in connection...

(1) The provisions of KRS 339.220 to the contrary notwithstanding, minors age eleven (11) years and over may be employed as caddies at golf courses subject to the following provisions: (a) A...

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No person shall furnish or sell to any minor any article of any description with the knowledge that the minor intends to sell said article in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450. No person shall...

No minor under eighteen (18) years of age shall be permitted to work for more than five (5) hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty (30) minutes for a lunch period, and no period...

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A certificate of age duly issued shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the minor for whom issued in any proceeding involving the employment of the minor under the child labor or workers'...

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Every person employing minors under eighteen (18) years of age shall keep a separate register containing the names, ages, and addresses of such employees, and the time of commencing and stopping...

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(1) It shall be the duty of the Department of Workplace Standards and of the inspectors and agents of said department, with the assistance of the school directors of pupil personnel, police...

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Anyone who employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or of any order or ruling issued under the provisions thereof, or obstructs the...

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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Fund means the unemployment insurance fund established by KRS 341.490, to which all contributions, and from which...

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, and except as provided in subsections (2) to (7) of this section, wages means all remuneration for services, including...

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Reserve account means a separate book account maintained by the cabinet for each subject contributing employer...

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise and subject to the provisions of KRS 341.055, covered employment means service, including service in interstate...

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, employing unit means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, society, trust,...

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For the purpose of this chapter, a governmental entity is: (1) The state government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its instrumentalities or a governmental unit thereof as provided for in...

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, subject employer means: (1) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding...

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Base period means the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the...

(1) For the purpose of this chapter, previously uncovered wages means wages paid to a worker during his base-period for service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which is defined in Section...

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Extended benefit period means a period which: (a) Begins with the third week after a week for which there is...

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Rate of insured unemployment means the percentage derived by dividing: (a) The average weekly number of...

(1) In determining for any purpose under this chapter whether or not any work is suitable for a worker the secretary shall consider, among other pertinent conditions, the degree of risk involved...

(1) The secretary shall have the power and authority to adopt, amend, or rescind such rules and regulations as he deems necessary or suitable for the proper administration of this chapter. The...

It shall be the responsibility of the secretary to annually update and maintain the unemployment insurance mercer computerized model and to make this model available to the Legislative Research...

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(1) It shall be the duty of the secretary to administer this chapter; and he shall have power and authority to make such expenditures, require such reports, make such investigations, and take such...

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(1) The secretary may enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, for the purpose of assisting the secretary and such agencies in...

The secretary shall cause to be printed for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, the secretary's regulations and general rules, his annual report to the Governor, and any other...

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Upon direction of the Governor, the secretary with the advice and aid of the advisory councils, shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and prevent unemployment; encourage and assist in the...

(1) Each employing unit shall keep true and accurate work records of all workers employed by it, of the wages paid by it to each worker, and such other information as the secretary for workforce...

(1) In the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter members of the commission, the secretary or any duly authorized representative thereof, may administer oaths and affirmations, take...

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda or other records before the commission or any member thereof, or the secretary...

(1) In the administration of this chapter, the secretary shall: (a) To the fullest extent consistent with the provisions of this chapter, cooperate with the federal Department of Labor; (b)...

The secretary may authorize the destruction of such original reports and records as have been properly recorded and summarized in the permanent records of the Cabinet for Workforce Development or...

(1) There is created within the State Treasury a special fund known as the service capacity upgrade fund that shall be administered separate and apart from all public money or funds of the state....

Subject to the provisions of KRS 56.440 to 56.550, inclusive, the secretary is authorized and empowered to use all or any part of the funds accumulated under the provisions of KRS 341.295 for the...

(1) Any employing unit that becomes subject to this chapter within any calendar year shall be considered a subject employer during the whole of that calendar year, except as specifically provided...

(1) Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each subject employer for each calendar year in which he is subject to this chapter. Such contributions shall be based upon wages paid during...

(1) Any employing unit failing to make and file reports required under this chapter on or before the due date of such reports shall be subject, in addition to any other penalty provisions in this...

If any employer fails to file reports when due, or files an incorrect or insufficient report, the secretary may, after an investigation, determine such employer's liability and assess the...

(1) Any employing unit refusing to make reports required under this chapter within ten (10) days after written notice sent by the cabinet to such employing unit's last known address by certified...

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each employer's contribution rate shall be three percent (3%). Effective for employers who become subject to this chapter on or after January 1,...

(1) For the purpose of this section, a nonprofit organization is an organization (or group of organizations) described in Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code which is...

(1) Any governmental entity which, pursuant to KRS 341.070(3), is or becomes a subject employer shall pay contributions under the provisions of KRS 341.270, unless it elects, in accordance with...

(1) Each nonprofit organization that has elected to make payments in lieu of contributions under KRS 341.275 shall pay to the cabinet for the fund the amount of regular benefits plus the amount of...

The amount payable to meet the Commonwealth's obligation as an employer under this chapter shall be paid from the general fund of the state or such other administrative funds as might properly be...

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(1) All fines, penalties and interest on delinquent contributions collected under KRS 341.300 shall be credited to the unemployment compensation administration fund to be used for the payment of...

Such money in the unemployment compensation administration fund collected under KRS 341.295, shall be invested by the State Treasurer in bonds and other interest-bearing obligations of the United...

(1) Contributions unpaid on the date on which they are due and payable, as prescribed by the secretary, shall be subject to interest at the rate of one and five-tenths percent (1.5%) per month or...

(1) If any check tendered to the cabinet in payment of any contribution or penalty due under this chapter or as restitution for the overpayment of benefits is not paid when presented to the drawee...

Any employing unit which is not a resident of this state and which exercises the privilege of having one or more individuals perform service for it within this state, and any resident employing...

(1) A lien on a parity with state, county, and municipal ad valorem tax liens, and superior to the lien of any mortgage or other encumbrance heretofore or hereafter created is hereby created in...

A lien of the same nature and upon the same property and having the same force, effect and priorities as that created by KRS 376.010 and 376.140 in favor of persons performing labor is hereby...

(1) Before any contract, exceeding two thousand dollars ($ 2,000) in amount, is awarded to any person for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the...

(1) Not later than five (5) years after the date on which any contributions, interest, or penalties were paid, an employing unit which has paid such contributions, interest, or penalties may make...

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An unemployed worker shall, except as provided in KRS 341.360 and 341.370, be eligible for benefits with respect to any week of unemployment only if: (1) He has made a claim for benefits;...

No worker may be paid benefits for any week of unemployment: (1) With respect to which a strike or other bona fide labor dispute which caused him to leave or lose his employment is in active...

(1) A worker shall be disqualified from receiving benefits for the duration of any period of unemployment with respect to which: (a) He has failed without good cause either to apply for...

There shall be deducted from the benefit rate determined for a worker in accordance with subsection (2) of KRS 341.380: (1) Eighty percent (80%), adjusted to the nearest multiple of one dollar...

(1) A worker filing a new claim for unemployment benefits shall, at the time of filing such claim, disclose whether or not he owes child support obligations as defined under this section. If any...

(1) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing the claim, be advised that: (a) Unemployment compensation is subject to federal and state income...

Each subject employer shall post and maintain in places readily accessible to his workers printed statements concerning such regulations or such matters as the secretary prescribes. Each subject...

The commissioner acting through his duly authorized representatives shall, upon request, determine the insured status of a worker. If a worker is found to have fully insured status, as defined in...

(1) The secretary shall appoint one (1) or more impartial referees according to KRS 341.125 to hear and decide appealed claims. (2) A party to a determination may file an appeal to a referee as to...

(1) The commission may on its own motion affirm, modify, or set aside any decision of a referee on the basis of the evidence previously submitted in such case, or direct the taking of additional...

(1) The manner in which appeals are presented and hearings and appeals conducted shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the secretary for determining the rights of the parties, such...

(1) Except as provided in KRS 341.460, within twenty (20) days after the date of the decision of the commission, any party aggrieved thereby may, after exhausting his remedies before the...

(1) In all cases of appeals arising under subsection (1) of KRS 341.360 or subsection (2) of KRS 341.430 court review may be had as provided in KRS 341.450 except that review shall be had to the...

(1) No agreement by a worker to waive, release, or commute his rights to benefits or any other rights under this chapter shall be valid. No agreement by any worker to pay any portion of a subject...

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(1) There shall be a special fund known as the unemployment insurance fund which shall be administered separate and apart from all public money or funds of this state. This fund shall consist of:...

(1) The State Treasurer shall be the treasurer and custodian of the fund. He shall administer the fund in accordance with the direction of the secretary and shall pay all vouchers approved by the...

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section and except the money as has been credited to the account of this state in the unemployment trust fund under the provisions of Section 903...

KRS 341.490, 341.500 and 341.510, to the extent that they relate to the unemployment trust fund, shall be operative only so long as that fund continues to exist and so long as the secretary of the...

(1) Any employing unit which succeeds to or acquires the organization, trade, or business of a subject employer shall assume the resources and liabilities of the predecessor's reserve account,...

(1) The cabinet shall maintain a pooled account for contributing employers to which shall be credited: (a) Payments received from the federal government under the provisions of Section...

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(1) In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter or in which the commission or the cabinet is an interested party, the commission or the cabinet may be represented by any...

If the federal government does not, for any fiscal year, make the certification for payment to this state of funds for the assistance of this state in the administration of this chapter as...

The Governor is hereby authorized to apply for advances to the credit of this state's account in the unemployment trust fund from the federal unemployment account in such fund as provided for in...

(1) The secretary, the cabinet, the commission, its personnel, or organization and funds shall constitute a continuation of the analogous provisions of the previous unemployment compensation laws...

Kentucky hereby obligates itself for the replacement, within a reasonable time, of any moneys received pursuant to Title III of the Social Security Act which, because of any action or contingency,...

(1) Any interest required to be paid on advances under Title XII of the Social Security Act shall be paid in a timely manner and shall not be paid directly or indirectly (by an equivalent...

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All moneys received pursuant to Title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the Federal Bureau of Employment...

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None of the funds, accounts or moneys administered, established, or maintained under this chapter shall be credited or otherwise transferred to the general expenditure fund or any other fund or...

Except when the result would be inconsistent with KRS 341.094, 341.096 and 341.710 to 341.740, as provided in the regulations of the secretary, the provisions of this chapter which apply to claims...

(1) No work shall be deemed to be suitable work for a worker making a claim for extended benefits, nor a disqualification imposed for refusal thereof, which does not accord with the labor standard...

The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible worker with respect to his applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts: (1) Fifty percent (50%) of the maximum...

Notwithstanding any state statute to the contrary and to the extent permitted by federal law, for any week during a period in which federal payments to states under Section 204 of the...

Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective in this state as a result of a state on indicator, or an extended benefit period is to be terminated in this state as a result of a...

(1) Levy may be made with respect to any unpaid contributions including penalties and interest only after the cabinet has given notice and demand to the subject employer in writing of the...

(1) Any employer whose property has been levied upon shall have the right to pay the amount due, together with the expense of the proceeding, to the secretary or his delegate at any time prior to...

(1) It shall be lawful for the secretary or his delegate, under administrative regulations prescribed by the secretary, to release all or part of the property or rights to property levied upon...

(1) If a levy has been made or is about to be made on any property or right to property, any person having custody or control of any books or records containing evidence or statements relating to...

(1) When the cabinet reasonably believes that any employer has divested himself by gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer of, or charge upon any property, whether real, personal, tangible or...

All fines, penalties and interest on delinquent contributions collected under KRS 341.800 to 341.830 shall be credited to the unemployment compensation administration fund to be used for the...

(1) In enacting this chapter, it is the intention of the General Assembly to comply with the requirements of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and all subsequent amendments including, but not...

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Injury means any work-related traumatic event or series of traumatic events, including cumulative trauma, arising out of...

(1) There is hereby created the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Advisory Council which shall consist of sixteen (16) members appointed by the Governor. Each member shall serve for a term of four...

The substantive provisions of 1996 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1 shall apply to any claim arising from an injury or last exposure to the hazards of an occupational disease occurring on or...

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A doctor of chiropractic, licensed to practice under the provisions of KRS Chapter 312, shall have his services to employees covered by the workers' compensation law paid for under the workers'...

(1) In addition to all other compensation provided in this chapter, the employer shall pay for the cure and relief from the effects of an injury or occupational disease the medical, surgical, and...

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In a claim for benefits, no party may introduce direct testimony from more than two (2) physicians without prior consent from the administrative law judge. The motion requesting additional...

(1) Periodically, the commissioner shall promulgate administrative regulations to adopt a schedule of fees for the purpose of ensuring that all fees, charges, and reimbursements under KRS 342.020...

(1) Every employer subject to this chapter shall keep a record of all injuries, fatal or otherwise, received by his employees in the course of their employment. Within one (1) week after the...

Beginning on January 1, 1995, and pursuant to administrative regulations promulgated under KRS Chapter 13A by the commissioner, each insurance company writing workers' compensation insurance...

(1) Except as provided in KRS 342.020, no income benefits shall be payable for the first seven (7) days of disability unless disability continues for a period of more than two (2) weeks, in which...

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A minor sixteen (16) years of age or over or a minor under sixteen (16) years of age who has procured his employment upon the written certification of his parent, guardian or one having legal...

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(1) The following persons shall be presumed to be wholly dependent upon a deceased employee: (a) A surviving spouse upon a decedent whom the surviving spouse had not voluntarily abandoned at...

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As used in this chapter: (1) Child includes stepchildren, legally adopted children, posthumous children and recognized children born out of wedlock, but does not include married children...

Payment of death benefits in good faith to a supposed dependent or to a dependent subsequent in right to another or other dependents shall protect and discharge the employer and insurer unless and...

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(1) There is created the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds in the Department of Workplace Standards which shall be responsible for the administration and legal representation of the special...

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(1) Every insurance carrier shall be entitled to a refund or credited with assessments paid on all canceled or returned premiums, including dividends paid or credited to policyholders, if the...

(1) The commission shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of seven (7) members. The seven (7) members shall include the secretary of the Labor Cabinet, the secretary of the Cabinet...

Except as provided in KRS 342.829, funds which are under the jurisdiction of the commission shall not: (1) Be loaned to the Commonwealth or any instrumentality or agency thereof; (2) Be...

The Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission shall not be subject to the Governor's power of reorganization under KRS Chapter 12, including attachment or transfer to another...

The benefit reserve fund is hereby established within the funding commission, and shall be administered by the funding commission. All funds in excess of current liabilities of the special fund...

(1) The funding commission may mail to the taxpayer a notice of any assessment assessed by it. The assessment shall be final if not protested in writing to the funding commission within thirty...

Subsequent administrative savings as a result of the implementation of 1996 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1 shall be used to defray the special fund assessment on all employers in the...

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(1) The General Assembly finds and declares that the awards of workers' compensation benefits for coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung) have placed a substantial financial burden on all...

(1) Upon motion by any party or upon an administrative law judge's own motion, an administrative law judge may reopen and review any award or order on any of the following grounds: (a) Fraud;...

Compensation under this chapter to alien dependent widows, widowers and children, not residents of the United States, shall be one-half ( 1/2) of the amount provided in each case for residents....

Any notice required to be given under this chapter shall be considered properly given and served when deposited in the mail in a registered letter or package properly stamped and addressed to the...

The average weekly wage of the injured employee at the time of the injury or last injurious exposure shall be determined as follows: (1) If at the time of the injury which resulted in death or...

For the purposes of this chapter, the average weekly wage of the state shall be determined by the commissioner as follows: On or before September 1 of each year, the total wages reported by...

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Whenever the administrative law judge considers it expedient, any lump sum which is paid as provided in this chapter shall be paid to any suitable person appointed by the District Court of the...

(1) The benefits in case of death shall be paid to one (1) or more dependents of the deceased employee for the benefit of all the dependents entitled thereto, as determined by the administrative...

(1) If an accident is caused in any degree by the intentional failure of the employer to comply with any specific statute or lawful administrative regulation made thereunder, communicated to the...

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All rights of compensation granted by this chapter shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for any unpaid wages for...

No claim for compensation under this chapter shall be assignable, except court or administratively-ordered child support pursuant to KRS 403.212. All compensation and claims therefor, except child...

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no proceeding under this chapter for compensation for an injury or death shall be maintained unless a notice of the accident shall have...

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The notice and claim shall be in writing. The notice shall contain the name and address of the employee, and shall state in ordinary language the time, place of occurrence, nature and cause of the...

The notice and claim shall be given to the employer, or if the employer is a partnership, then to any one (1) of the general partners. If the employer is a corporation or a limited liability...

(1) No employee shall be harassed, coerced, discharged, or discriminated against in any manner whatsoever for filing and pursuing a lawful claim under this chapter. (2) It is unlawful practice for...

The notice shall not be invalid or insufficient because of any inaccuracy in complying with KRS 342.190 unless it is shown that the employer was in fact misled to his injury thereby. Want of...

(1) After an injury and so long as compensation is claimed, the employee, if requested by a party or by the administrative law judge, shall submit himself to examination, at a reasonable time and...

No limitation of time provided in this chapter shall run against any person who is mentally incompetent or who is a minor dependent so long as he has no committee, guardian or next friend, or...

(1) The Governor shall make all appointments to the board, and appoint the administrative law judges and the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims, subject to the consent of the Senate...

(1) The Workers' Compensation Board is hereby created and established. The board shall rule on appeals of decisions rendered by administrative law judges under this chapter. The board shall rule...

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(1) The Department of Workers' Claims shall be responsible for administering claims and ensuring compliance with the insurance, self-insurance, and rehabilitation provisions in this chapter. The...

(1) The records of the Department of Workers' Claims, to the extent that they provide information personally identifying an individual alleging a work related injury or occupational disease, shall...

(1) The commissioner, within the limits of appropriations therefor and except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, shall establish and fill any positions, including medical services...

The Labor Cabinet shall report monthly to the Committee on Appropriations and Revenue its monthly expenditures of restricted agency funds and the nature of such expenditures. Separate reporting...

The commissioner and employees or authorized representatives of the department shall, for traveling necessitated by the discharge of official duties, be reimbursed for transportation actually paid...

The department shall maintain its main office in Frankfort, Kentucky, using suitable rooms and offices belonging to this state, and shall be provided necessary office furniture to be paid for by...

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(1) If the employee and employer and special fund or any of them reach an agreement conforming to the provisions of this chapter in regard to compensation, a memorandum of the agreement signed by...