The director of labor and training is required to make a report to the general assembly annually in January. In this report, the director is required to collect, arrange, tabulate and publish the...

Every employer of labor, and every person engaged in any industrial pursuit, shall give the director of labor and training all proper and necessary information to enable the director to perform...

The director of labor and training, with the approval of the governor, appoints an administrative assistant, who performs the duties prescribed by the director and serves at his or her pleasure....

The director of labor and training may employ assistants and incur expenses incident to the proper discharge of the duties of his or her office, and the general assembly shall appropriate annually...

It is the duty of every able-bodied resident of this state between the ages of eighteen (18) and fifty (50) years to be habitually and regularly engaged in some lawful, useful, and recognized...

In no case shall the possession by the accused of money, property, or income sufficient to support himself or herself and those regularly dependent upon him or her be a defense to any prosecution...

A claim by the accused of his or her inability to obtain work or employment is not a defense to a prosecution under this chapter, unless it is proved that the accused promptly notified the...

All persons required to work under this chapter shall receive compensation of not less than the wage or salary paid to others engaged in the same nature of work to which each person is assigned....

Any person failing or refusing to do, or to continue to do, the work assigned to him or her, or who has not become regularly or continuously employed in some lawful, useful and recognized...

As soon as the proclamation has been issued as provided in § 28-2-1, it is the duty of the director of labor and training to prepare and publish rules and regulations governing the assignment of...

The director of labor and training is authorized to appoint or employ any employees that may be necessary, and to use any agencies that may be available and appropriate, to aid him or her in...

For the purposes of this chapter, any person described in § 28-2-1 found in this state is deemed a resident, and in any prosecution under this chapter, proof that the accused habitually loiters in...

No child under fourteen (14) years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work at any time in any business or industrial establishment in this state. No child under sixteen (16)...

Whenever any truant officer or compliance inspector has reason to doubt that any child employed in any factory, mechanical, manufacturing, or business establishment has reached the age of sixteen...

The school committee of each town and city, or a person that the school committee may designate, may issue a special limited permit to work for any child who has completed fourteen (14) years of...

The school committee of each city and town is authorized to adopt and implement a school-supervised and school-administered work experience and career exploration program (WECEP). Students who...

The permit of any child issued pursuant to § 28-3-3 may be revoked or suspended by the school committee which issued the permit if, upon the recommendation of the principal of the school which the...

The permit shall, within five (5) days after termination of the employment of the child, be returned by the employer to the school committee which issued it, or to a person that the committee...

In case it appears to the satisfaction of the school committee, or person authorized to give the certificate, that neither the birth certificate, baptismal certificate, nor passport of the child...

All certificates of age and permits required by this chapter relating to the qualification of children employed in any factory, or manufacturing, or business establishment coming under this...

If, after investigation, the inspector finds that the certificate or permit should not have been issued to the child under this chapter, then he or she shall deliver the certificate or permit to...

Every person, firm or corporation doing business within this state employing five (5) or more persons, or employing any child under sixteen (16) years of age, is subject to §§ 28-3-1 -- 28-3-20...

No minor under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: circular or bandsaws, wood shapers, wood...

The department of labor and training is empowered and is hereby authorized, under any rules that it may determine, to declare any particular work, occupation, trade, place, or process injurious,...

(a) No children under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work more than forty (40) hours in any one week in any business or mercantile establishment within...

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Every employer shall post, in one or more places in his or her establishment where it may be easily seen and read by all employees employed by him or her, a printed or typewritten notice stating...

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(a) (1) No man, woman, or child shall be employed for more than six (6) hours at one time in a factory, workshop, mechanical, or mercantile establishment without an interval of at least twenty...

Every person who willfully employs or has in his employ or under his charge any person in violation of §§ 28-3-11 -- 28-3-14, and every parent or guardian who permits any child to be so employed,...

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The division of labor standards has full power to enforce §§ 28-3-1 -- 28-3-20, and has all the powers of the division of compliance inspection insofar as those powers relate to and affect women...

A printed copy of §§ 28-3-1 -- 28-3-20 shall be posted by the inspectors in each workroom of every factory, manufacturing, or mercantile establishment where persons are employed who are affected...

(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, any person or corporation who employs a child under sixteen (16) years of age without the permit required by § 28-3-3, or who makes a false statement...

No boy under twelve (12) years of age and no girl under sixteen (16) years of age shall, in any street or other public place in any city having a population of over forty thousand (40,000)...

No boy or girl under sixteen (16) years of age shall, in any of the places mentioned or described in § 28-3-21, perform any act mentioned or described in that section until a permit and a badge...

A permit and badge shall be issued only upon the application of the parent, guardian, or other person having the custody of the boy or girl desiring the permit and badge, or, in case the boy or...

The permit shall be numbered, shall give a sufficient description to identify the boy or girl, and shall give the date and place of birth of the boy or girl, his or her name and address, and the...

No boy or girl under sixteen (16) years of age shall, in any of the places mentioned or described in § 28-3-21, perform any of the acts mentioned or described in that section after 9:00 P.M.,...

The permit and badge of any boy or girl who gives, loans, sells, or otherwise transfers either his or her permit or badge, or who violates any of the provisions of §§ 28-3-21 -- 28-3-32, or who...

The principal of each school in which boys and girls under sixteen (16) years of age are pupils shall keep a complete list of all boys and girls in his or her school to whom permits and badges...

Any child who violates any of the provisions of §§ 28-3-21 -- 28-3-32 shall be warned by an officer whose duty it is to enforce those sections; and the parents, guardian, custodian, or next friend...

Any person having control over a child as parent, guardian, or otherwise, who permits or allows the child to violate any of the provisions of §§ 28-3-21 -- 28-3-32, shall, for each offense...

The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum that it deems necessary for the purpose of purchasing the badges required to be issued under §§ 28-3-21 -- 28-3-32, and the state controller...

No police officer, probation officer, truant officer, or principal of a school complaining under any of the provisions of this chapter is required to give surety for costs; and these persons shall...

Any minor who is sixteen (16) years of age or over, or who, being under sixteen (16) years of age, has a limited permit to work given him or her by or under the direction of the school committee...

Every indenture shall be signed: (1) By the minor; (2) By the parents, or either one of them, as the natural guardians or guardian of the minor; or by the appointed legal guardian of the...

In every case there shall be three (3) deeds in the same form and tenor, executed by all parties, one to be kept by each. ...

All indentures made in accordance with §§ 28-4-1 -- 28-4-4 are good and effectual in law against all parties and the minor, according to the tenor of the indenture, except for any provisions that...

Whenever a petition or complaint in writing and under oath is made to any judge of the district court that any master or apprentice, within a division where the court is situated, has willfully...

Upon the hearing of a petition or complaint, the court may determine the controversy or matter complained of in a summary way, and discharge either party from the indenture and contract of...

This chapter may be cited as the State Fair Employment Practices Act. ...

The practice or policy of discrimination against individuals because of their race or color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, or country of...

This chapter shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare, prosperity, health, and peace of the people of the state. ...

The right of all individuals in this state to equal employment opportunities, regardless of race or color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, or...

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When used in this chapter: (1) Age means at least forty (40) years of age. (2) Because of sex or on the basis of sex includes, but is not limited to, because of or on the basis of...

It is an unlawful employment practice: (1) For any employer: (i) To refuse to hire any applicant for employment because of his or her race or color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual...

It is not unlawful for an employer as defined in § 28-5-6(7)(i) or any agency or instrumentality of the state or a political subdivision of the state to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any...

An unlawful employment practice may be established in an action or proceeding under this chapter when the complainant demonstrates that race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender...

There is created a commission to be known as the Rhode Island commission for human rights, consisting of seven (7) members to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the...

The five (5) commissioners appointed before July 12, 1990, shall serve the remainder of their terms. One of the two (2) new commissioners to be appointed after July 12, 1990, serve for five (5)...

Three (3) members of the commission constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business of the commission. A vacancy in the commission does not impair the right of the remaining members...

Members of the commission receive compensation not exceeding fifty dollars ($ 50.00) for each day, or part of each day, necessarily spent in the discharge of their official duties, with a maximum...

Any member of the commission may be removed by the governor for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office, after being given a written statement of the charges and an...

The commission has the following powers and duties: (1) To establish and maintain a principal office in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, and any other offices within the state that it...

In order to eliminate prejudice among the various ethnic groups in this state and to further good will among those groups, the commission and the state department of elementary and secondary...

The commission is authorized to accept contributions from any person and may seek and enlist the cooperation of private charitable, religious, labor, civic, and benevolent organizations for the...

The commission is empowered and directed, as provided in this chapter, to prevent any person from engaging in unlawful employment practices, provided that before instituting the formal hearing...

Upon the commission's own initiative, or whenever an aggrieved individual or an organization chartered for the purpose of combating discrimination, racism, or of safeguarding civil liberties, or...

(a) If the commission fails to effect the elimination of the unlawful employment practices and to obtain voluntary compliance with this chapter, or, if the circumstances warrant, in advance of any...

(a) The commission, member of the commission, or hearing examiner conducting the hearing has the power reasonably and fairly to amend any written complaint at any time prior to the issuance of an...

(a) The commission is not precluded from investigating, taking evidence, considering claims or issuing findings on matters which could have been presented to any other state administrative agency,...

In any proceeding the commission, its member, or its agent are not bound by the rules of evidence prevailing in the courts. ...

The testimony taken at the hearing shall be under oath and shall be reduced to writing and filed with the commission. Thereafter, in its discretion, the commission, upon notice, may take further...

(a) If, upon all the testimony taken, the commission determines that the respondent has engaged in or is engaging in unlawful employment practices, the commission shall state its findings of fact...

(a) A complainant may ask for a right to sue in state court if not less than one hundred and twenty (120) days and not more than two (2) years have elapsed from the date of filing of a charge, if...

If the commission finds that no probable cause exists for crediting the charges, or, if upon all the evidence, it finds that a respondent has not engaged in unfair employment practices, the...

Until a transcript of the record in a case is filed in a court as provided in this chapter, the commission may at any time, upon reasonable notice and in a manner that it deems proper, modify or...

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A judicial proceeding is initiated by the filing of a petition in the superior court, together with a transcript of the record upon the hearing before the commission, and the service of a copy of...

In addition to the remedies provided in § 28-5-24, where the challenged conduct is shown to be motivated by malice or ill will or when the action involves reckless or callous indifference to the...

If either party applies to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shows to the satisfaction of the court that the additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable...

The commission may modify its findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of additional evidence so taken and filed. The commission shall file the modified or new findings and its...

The commission's copy of the testimony shall be available at all reasonable times to all parties without cost for examination and for the purposes of judicial review of the order of the...

The commission may appear in court by its own attorneys. ...

If no proceeding to obtain judicial review is instituted by a complainant, intervener, or respondent within thirty (30) days from the service of an order of the commission pursuant to § 28-5-24,...

Every employer, employment agency, and labor union subject to this chapter shall post in a conspicuous place or places on its premises a notice to be prepared or approved by the commission, which...

This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes, and any law inconsistent with any provision of this chapter shall not apply. Nothing contained in this chapter is deemed to...

On February 1 of each year the governor, in conjunction with the state equal opportunity office, submits to the general assembly a report documenting the status of affirmative action programs for...

Whenever in this chapter the terms, race or color, religion, sex, disability, age or country of ancestral origin appear, the words sexual orientation shall be inserted immediately thereafter. ...

Whenever in this chapter there shall appear the terms race or color, religion, sex, handicap, age, country of ancestral origin, or sexual orientation there shall be inserted immediately...

The fact that an individual has applied for, received or continues to receive private insurance or government assistance on the basis of a physical or mental impairment does not, by itself,...

(a) (1) Equal opportunity and affirmative action toward its achievement is the policy of all units of Rhode Island state government, including all public and quasi-public agencies, commissions,...

(a) The state equal opportunity office shall assign an equal opportunity officer as a liaison to agencies of state government. (b) Each state department or agency, excluding the legislative branch...

(a) The general assembly finds that, as a matter of public policy, the effectiveness of each appointed state board, commission, and the governing body of each public authority and quasi-public...

(a) The state equal opportunity administrator is authorized to initiate complaints against any agencies, administrators, or employees of any department or division within state government,...

Each appointing authority shall review the recruitment, appointment, assignment, upgrading, and promotion policies and activities for state employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex,...

(a) (1) The office of personnel administration of the department of administration prepares a comprehensive plan indicating the appropriate steps necessary to maintain and secure the equal...

The Rhode Island commission for human rights shall exercise its enforcement powers as defined in chapter 5 of this title and in this chapter, and shall have the full cooperation of all state...

(a) Every state agency shall render service to the citizens of this state without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age,...

(a) All educational programs and activities of state agencies, or in which state agencies participate, shall be open to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual...

All state agencies, including educational institutions, which provide employment referral or placement services to public or private employees, shall accept job orders, refer for employment, test,...

The division of purchases shall prepare those rules, regulations, and compliance reports that require of contractors of this state the same commitment to equal opportunity that prevails under...

The attorney general, the department of corrections, and the Rhode Island justice commission shall stress to state and local law enforcement officials the necessity for nondiscrimination in the...

The state equal opportunity office shall review the equal opportunity activity of all private health care facilities licensed or chartered by the state, including hospitals, nursing homes,...

State agencies shall not discriminate by considering race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or disability in granting, denying, or revoking a license or charter, nor shall any person,...

State agencies disbursing financial assistance, including, but not limited to, loans and grants, shall hereafter require recipient organizations and agencies to undertake affirmative action...

All executive orders shall, to the extent that they are not inconsistent with this chapter, remain in full force and effect. ...

(a) The personnel administrator, in consultation with the equal employment opportunity administrator within the department of administration, shall annually conduct a utilization analysis of...

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No employer shall discriminate in the payment of wages as between the sexes or pay any female in his employ salary or wage rates less than the rates paid to male employees for equal work or work...

The director of labor and training has the power and the duty to carry out the provisions of §§ 28-6-17 -- 28-6-21. ...

An employer who violates the provisions of § 28-6-18 is liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid wages, and in an additional equal amount of liquidated damages....

Any employer who violates any provision of §§ 28-6-17 -- 28-6-21, or who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because the employee has made any complaint to his or...

(a) No employer or agent of any employer shall, either orally or in writing, request, require, or subject any employee to any lie detector tests as a condition of employment or continued...

Any employer who subjects any person employed by him or her, or any person applying for employment, to a lie detector test, or causes, directly or indirectly, any employee or applicant to take a...

As used in this chapter, the term lie detector test means any test utilizing a polygraph or any other device, mechanism, instrument, or written examination which is operated or the results of...

(a) Whenever any employer requires a physical examination prior to employment, the cost of the examination shall be paid by the employer whether or not the prospective employee is hired. (b) Any...

No employer or agent of any employer shall charge a fee for the filing of an employment application. ...

Any employer who charges a fee for the filing of an employment application shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($ 200). ...

(a) Every employer shall, upon not less than seven (7) days advance notice, holidays, Saturdays, and Sundays excluded, and at any reasonable time other than the employee's work hours and upon...

Any employer or any agent of an employer who violates the provisions of this chapter without just cause shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($ 100). ...

(a) No employer or agent of any employer shall, either orally or in writing, request, require, or subject any employee to submit a sample of his or her urine, blood, or other bodily fluid or...

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), an employer may require a job applicant to submit to testing of his or her blood, urine, or any other bodily fluid or tissue if: (1) The job...

If any provision of this chapter or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the...

(a) No employer or agent of any employer shall refuse to hire any applicant for employment, discharge any employee, or otherwise discriminate against any employee with respect to his or her...

(a) No employer, employment agency, or licensing agency shall directly or indirectly: (1) Request, require or administer a genetic test to any employee, licensee, or applicant for employment or...

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For the purposes of this chapter: (1) Employer includes the state, and all political subdivisions of the state, and any person in this state employing individuals, and any person acting in...

In any civil action alleging a violation of this chapter, the court may: (1) Award to a prevailing applicant or employee punitive damages in addition to any award of actual damages, and...

If any provision of this chapter or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the...

Any contract or agreement, which purports to waive the provisions of this chapter, is declared null and void as against public policy. ...

No employer shall release the name, address, or otherwise breach the confidentiality of information obtained through an employee's participation in an employer assistance program, except where the...

In any civil action alleging a violation of this chapter, the court may: (1) Award to a prevailing plaintiff punitive damages in addition to any award of actual damages, and reasonable...

In any civil action alleging a violation of this chapter, the court may: (1) Award to a prevailing applicant punitive damages in addition to any award of actual damages and reasonable...

It is the public policy of this state to foster the employment of all individuals in the state including temporary employees working for any employment agency, placement service, training school...

When used in the chapter: (1) Employment agency includes any person undertaking with or without compensation to procure opportunities to work, or to procure, recruit, refer, or place...

(a) Before any temporary employee is given any new job assignment regardless of whether or not the assignment is with the same contracting company, an employment agency shall provide the temporary...

Upon determining that a person has violated § 28-6.10-3, the department of labor and training shall send a written notice of the violation to the person at his or her last known address containing...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the Rhode Island State Labor Relations Act. ...

(a) The economic necessity for employees to possess full freedom of association, actual liberty of contract, and bargaining power equal to that of their employers, who are frequently organized in...

When used in this chapter: (1) Board means the labor relations board created by § 28-7-4. (2) Company union means any committee employee representation plan or association of employees...

There is created in the department of labor and training a board to be known as the Rhode Island state labor relations board, composed of seven (7) members appointed by the governor, by and with...

A vacancy in the board does not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the board, and two (2) members of the board constitute a quorum at all times.. The board may...

The board shall, at the end of every year, make a report in writing to the director of labor and training, stating in detail the work it has done in hearing and deciding cases and otherwise, and...

The compensation for members of the board is established by the unclassified pay plan board. The director of labor and training is authorized and directed to provide the board with any clerical,...

(a) The board has authority from time to time to make, amend, and rescind any rules and regulations that may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including the determination...

Neither the board nor any of its agents or employees shall engage in any effort to mediate, conciliate, or arbitrate any labor dispute, but nothing contained in this section shall be construed to...

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, neither the director of labor and training nor any board or other agency of the department of labor and training shall in any way direct, review,...

Employees have the right of self organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted...

It is an unfair labor practice for an employer: (1) To spy upon or keep under surveillance, whether directly or through agents or any other person, any activities of employees or their...

It is an unfair labor practice for public sector employee organizations, their agents, or representatives: (1) To refuse to meet and bargain collectively with a public employer if the labor...

Representatives designated or selected for the purpose of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for this purpose, or by the majority of the employees voting...

The board shall decide in each case whether, in order to insure to employees the full benefit of their right to self organization, to collective bargaining, and otherwise to effectuate the...

Whenever it is alleged by an employee or his or her representative that there is a question or controversy concerning the representation of employees, the board shall investigate the question or...

The board has power to determine who may participate in the election and to establish the rules governing the election. No election shall be directed by the board solely because of the request of...

If at an election conducted pursuant to §§ 28-7-14 -- 28-7-19, three (3) or more nominees for exclusive collective bargaining representatives appear on the ballot and no one of them receives a...

A labor organization nominated as the representative of employees shall be listed by name on the ballots authorized by § 28-7-16. In any investigation conducted by the board pursuant to §§ 28-7-14...

(a) As used in this section, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: (1) Control means the beneficial ownership of fifty percent (50%)...

The board is empowered and directed, as provided in this chapter, to prevent any employer, or public sector employee organization as provided in § 28-7-13.1, from engaging in any unfair labor...

Whenever a charge has been made that any employer, or public sector employee organization as provided in § 28-7-13.1, has engaged in or is engaging in any unfair labor practice, the board has...

(a) The testimony shall be taken at the hearing and the board in its discretion may upon notice take further testimony or hear argument. The taken or heard testimony shall not be reduced to...

Until a transcript of the record in a case has been filed in a court, as subsequently provided in this chapter, the board may at any time, upon reasonable notice and in a manner that it deems...

The board shall not require as a condition of taking action or issuing any order under this chapter that employees on strike or engaged in any other lawful, concerted activity discontinue that...

The board has power to petition the superior court of the state within the county where the unfair labor practice in question occurred or where any person charged with the unfair labor practice...

No objection that has not been urged before the board, its member, agent, or agency shall be considered by the court, unless the failure or neglect to urge the objection is excused because of...

The jurisdiction of the superior court is exclusive and its judgment final, except that the judgment is subject to review by the supreme court on appeal by either party, irrespective of the nature...

Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the board, or a final order of the board, granting or denying in whole or in part the relief sought may obtain a review of the final decision or final...

The commencement of proceedings under §§ 28-7-26 and 28-7-29 shall not, unless specifically ordered by the court, operate as a stay of the board's order. ...

When granting appropriate temporary relief or a restraining order, or making and entering a decree enforcing, modifying and enforcing as modified, or setting aside in whole or in part an order of...

Petitions filed under this chapter shall be heard expeditiously and are considered and determined upon the transcript filed, without requirement of printing. Upon the filing of a record in the...

For the purpose of all hearings and investigations which, in the opinion of the board, are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers vested in it by §§ 28-7-14 -- 28-7-25, the board, or...

If any witness resides outside of the state, or through illness or other cause is unable to testify before the board or its member, agent, or agency conducting the hearing or investigation, his or...

In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the superior court of any county within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of...

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, records, correspondence, documents, or other evidence in obedience to the subpoena of the board on the ground that...

(a) Complaints, orders, and other process and papers of the board, its member, agent, or agency, may be served either personally or by registered or certified mail or by telegraph or by leaving a...

All process of any court to which application may be made under this chapter may be served in the county where the person or persons required to be served reside or may be found. ...

The several departments, commissions, divisions, authorities, boards, bureaus, agencies, and officers of the state or any political subdivision or agency of it shall furnish the board, upon its...

Any person who willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with any member of the board or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter, or who, in...

Subject to rules and regulations to be made by the board, the complaints, orders, and testimony relating to a proceeding instituted by the board under §§ 28-7-20 -- 28-7-25 may be made public...

Prior to the fifteenth day of November of each year, the director of labor and training shall submit to the director of administration for his or her approval an estimated budget of the...

The general assembly shall annually appropriate the sum that it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and the controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders...

(a) This chapter does not apply to the employees of any employer who concedes to and agrees with the board that the employees are subject to and protected by the provisions of the National Labor...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in a way that interferes with, impedes, or diminishes in any way the right of employees to strike or engage in other lawful, concerted activities. ...

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter or the application of any clause, sentence, paragraph or part to any person or circumstances shall, for any reason, be adjudged by a...

Except for state payments to health care providers pursuant to the medical assistance program in chapter 8 of title 40 and the RITE Start program in § 23-13-18, the state of Rhode Island or any...

Whenever any employer has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor organization or association of employees providing for payments to a health or welfare fund or pension fund,...

The director of labor and training shall enforce § 28-7.1-1. ...

Suits or actions at law for the violation by an employer of contracts of employment between the employer and his or her employees who are represented by a labor union as their legally constituted...

Labor organizations may sue as a legal entity for the benefit and on behalf of the employees whom it represents in the superior court of the state of Rhode Island having jurisdiction of the...

This chapter shall not be in substitution of any remedies which are now available to the employer or employee, but is cumulative to them. ...

A provision in a written contract between an employer and an association of employees, a labor union, trade union, or craft union, or between an association of employers and an association of...

An agreement in writing between an employer and an association of employees, a labor union, trade union, or craft union, or between an association of employers and an association of employees,...

A provision in a written contract between an employer and an association of employees, a labor union, trade union, or craft union, or between an association of employers and an association of...

If any suit or proceeding is brought upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for the arbitration, the court in which the suit is pending upon being satisfied that the...

The making of an agreement for arbitration is deemed a consent of the parties to it, to the jurisdiction of the superior court of this state to enforce the agreement. A party aggrieved by the...

If evidentiary facts are set forth raising a substantial issue as to the making of the contract or submission or the failure to comply with the terms, the court, or the judge of the court, shall...

If, in the contract for arbitration or in the submission, provision is made for a method of naming or appointing an arbitrator or arbitrators or an umpire, that method shall be followed, but if no...

Subject to the terms of the submission or contract, if any are specified, the arbitrators selected as prescribed in this chapter must appoint a time and place for the hearing of the matters...

The court has power to direct the arbitrators to proceed promptly with the hearing and determination of the controversy. ...

Before hearing any testimony, arbitrators selected as prescribed in this chapter must be sworn, by an officer authorized by law to administer an oath, faithfully and fairly to hear and examine the...

The arbitrator or arbitrators selected as prescribed in this chapter may require any person to attend before them as a witness; and he or she and they have, and each of them has, the same powers...

(a) In any proceeding under this chapter, unless the parties agree as to the arbitrator's or arbitrators' fees, those fees shall be fixed by the director of labor and training who shall require...

An award is valid and enforceable according to its terms and under this chapter without previous adjudication of the existence of a submission or contract to arbitrate, subject to this section:...

Arbitration of a controversy under a contract or submission described in this chapter is deemed a special proceeding, of which the superior court for the county in which one of the parties resides...

Any application to the court or a judge of the court shall be made and heard in the manner provided by law for the making and hearing of motions, except as otherwise expressly provided in this...

To entitle the award to be enforced, as prescribed in this chapter, it must be in writing, within the time limited in the submission or contract, if any, subscribed by the arbitrator or...

(a) In any of the following cases the court must make an order vacating the award, upon the application of any party to the controversy which was arbitrated: (1) When the award was procured by...

Where an award is vacated, the court, in its discretion, may direct a rehearing either before the same arbitrator or arbitrators or before a new arbitrator or arbitrators to be chosen in the...

In any of the following cases, the court must make an order modifying or correcting the award upon the application of any party to the controversy which was arbitrated: (1) Where there was an...

Notice of a motion to vacate, modify, or correct an award must be served upon the adverse party, or his or her attorney, within three (3) months after the award is filed or delivered, as...

Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying, or correcting an award, judgment may be entered in conformity with the order, except as is otherwise prescribed in this chapter. Costs of the...

(a) Immediately after entering judgment, the clerk must attach together and file the following papers: (1) The submission or contract, and each written extension of the time, if any, within...

The judgment so entered has the same force and effect in all respects as, and is subject to all the provisions of law relating to a judgment in an action; and it may be enforced as if it had been...

Where a party dies after making a submission or contract as prescribed in this chapter or otherwise, the proceedings may be begun or continued upon the application of, or upon notice to, his or...

(a) An arbitrator has the authority to consider the existence of a past practice that may exist between the parties to a collective bargaining agreement only under the following circumstances:...

This chapter may be cited as the Firefighters' Arbitration Act. ...

(a) The protection of the public health, safety, and welfare demands that the permanent uniformed members, rescue service personnel of any city or town, emergency medical services personnel of any...

The firefighters in any city or town have the right to bargain collectively with their respective cities or towns and to be represented by a labor organization in the collective bargaining as to...

The labor organization selected by the majority of firefighters in any city or town shall be recognized by the city or town as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the members of the...

In the event a majority of the firefighters in any city or town select a successor and or a new labor organization as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all the members of the city or...

It is the obligation of the city or town, acting through its corporate authorities, to meet and confer in good faith with the representative or representatives of the bargaining agent within ten...

In the event that the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract,...

Within five (5) days from the expiration of the thirty (30) day period referred to in § 28-9.1-7, the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities shall each select and name one arbitrator and...

(a) The arbitration board, acting through its chairperson, shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after the date of the appointment of the chairperson, and, acting through its...

The arbitrators shall conduct the hearings and render their decision upon the basis of a prompt, peaceful, and just settlement of wage or hour disputes between the firefighters and the city or...

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities. Notwithstanding any other remedies which a court appointed arbitrator...

Any agreements actually negotiated between the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities either before or within thirty (30) days after arbitration constitute the collective bargaining...

Whenever wages, rates of pay, or any other matter requiring appropriation of money by any city or town are included as matter of collective bargaining conducted under this chapter, it is the...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

In the event either the bargaining agent or the corporate authorities files a petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a review or modification of a...

All contractual provisions contained in a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter continue in the following collective bargaining agreement unless either the...

This chapter may be cited as the Municipal Police Arbitration Act. ...

(a) The protection of the public health, safety, and welfare demands that full-time police officers of any paid police department in any city or town not be accorded the right to strike or engage...

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different interpretation, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) Corporate authorities means the proper officials within...

The police officers in any city or town have the right to bargain collectively with their respective cities or towns and to be represented by an organization in the collective bargaining as to...

The organization selected by the majority of the police officers in any city or town shall be recognized by the city or town as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the police...

It is the obligation of the city or town, acting through its corporate authorities, to meet and confer in good faith with the designated representative or representatives of the bargaining agent,...

In the event that the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract,...

Within five (5) days from the expiration of the thirty (30) day period referred to in § 28-9.2-7, the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities shall each select and name one arbitrator and...

(a) The arbitration board, acting through its chairperson, shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after the date of the appointment of the chairperson, and, acting through its...

The arbitrators shall conduct the hearings and render their decision upon the basis of a prompt, peaceful, and just settlement of wage or hour disputes between the police officers and the city or...

Any agreements actually negotiated between the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities either before or within thirty (30) days after arbitration constitute the collective bargaining...

Whenever wages, rates of pay, or any other matter requiring appropriation of money by any city or town are included as matter of collective bargaining conducted under this chapter, it is the...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

The sole avenue of review of a decision of an arbitration panel issued pursuant to this chapter shall be by petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court. In the event a decision of the...

In the event either the bargaining agent or the corporate authorities files a petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a review or modification of a...

All contractual provisions contained in a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter shall continue in the following collective bargaining agreement unless either the...

(a) The certified teachers in the public school system in any city, town, or regional school district have the right to negotiate professionally and to bargain collectively with their respective...

The association or labor organization selected by the certified public school teachers in the public school system in any city, town, or regional school district is recognized by the school...

It is the obligation of the school committee to meet and confer in good faith with the representative or representatives of the negotiating or bargaining agent within ten (10) days after receipt...

The state labor relations board, upon the written petition for an election signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the certified public school teachers of the city, town, or regional...

The state labor relations board shall prescribe the method of petitioning for an election, the manner, place, and time of conducting the election, and shall supervise all elections to insure...

(a) No association nor organization shall be certified initially as the representative of certified public school teachers except after an election. (b) Teachers are free to join or to decline to...

(a) In the event that the negotiating or bargaining agent and the school committee are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on...

Within seven (7) days after arbitration has been requested as provided in § 28-9.3-9, the negotiating or bargaining agent and the school committee shall each select and name one arbitrator and...

The arbitrators shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after their appointment and give at least seven (7) days notice in writing to the negotiating or bargaining agent and the...

The decision of the arbitrators shall be made public and is binding upon the certified public school teachers and their representative and the school committee on all matters not involving the...

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the negotiating or bargaining agent and the school committee. ...

Whenever the word arbitrators is used in this chapter, it also means arbitrator where applicable. ...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

This chapter may be cited as the Certified School Teachers' Arbitration Act. ...

It is the public policy of this state to accord to municipal employees the right to organize, to be represented, to negotiate, and to bargain on a collective basis with municipal employers,...

(a) Employee organizations means any lawful association, labor organization, federation or council having as a primary purpose the improvement of wages, hours and other conditions of employment...

The municipal employees of any municipal employer in any city, town, or regional school district have the right to negotiate and to bargain collectively with their respective municipal employers...

The employee organization selected by the municipal employees in an appropriate bargaining unit as determined by the state labor relations board shall be recognized by the municipal employer or...

It is the obligation of the municipal employer to meet and confer in good faith with the representative or representatives of the negotiating or bargaining agent within ten (10) days after receipt...

The state labor relations board, upon the written petition for an election signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the municipal employees in an appropriate bargaining unit as determined...

The state labor relations board shall prescribe the method of petitioning for an election, the manner, place, and time of conducting the election, and shall supervise all elections to insure...

No employee organization shall be certified initially as the representative of municipal employees in an appropriate bargaining unit except after an election. Municipal employees are free to join...

Whenever salary or other matters requiring appropriation of money by any municipal employer are to be included as a matter of negotiation or collective bargaining conducted under the provisions of...

(a) In the event that the negotiating or bargaining agent and the municipal employer are unable after thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting to reach an agreement on a...

Within seven (7) days after arbitration has been requested as provided in § 28-9.4-10 the negotiating agent and the municipal employer shall each select and name one arbitrator and immediately...

The arbitrators shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after their appointment and give at least seven (7) days notice in writing to the negotiating or bargaining agent and the...

The decision of the arbitrators shall be made public and is binding upon the municipal employees in the appropriate bargaining unit and their representative and the municipal employer on all...

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the negotiating or bargaining agent and the municipal employer. ...

Whenever the word arbitrators is used in this chapter, it also means arbitrator where applicable. ...

Municipal employees covered by this chapter do not have the right to engage in any strike, work stoppage, or slowdown strike; and any strike, work stoppage, or slowdown strike is illegal. ...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

This chapter may be cited as the State Police Arbitration Act. ...

(a) The protection of the public health, safety, and welfare demands that the full-time state police officers of the state of Rhode Island not be accorded the right to strike or engage in any work...

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different interpretation: (1) State authorities means the proper officials of the state whose duty or duties it is to establish the...

The state police have the right to bargain collectively with the state of Rhode Island and to be represented by an organization in the collective bargaining as to wages, rates of pay, hours,...

The organization selected by the majority of the state police is recognized by the state as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the state police unless and until recognition of the...

It is the obligation of the state, acting through state authorities, to meet and confer in good faith with the designated representative or representatives of the bargaining agent, including any...

In the event that the bargaining agent and the state authorities are unable within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting to reach an agreement on a contract, any and...

Within five (5) days from the expiration of the thirty (30) day period referred to in § 28-9.5-7, the bargaining agent and the state authorities shall each select and name one arbitrator and...

(a) The arbitration board, acting through its chairperson, shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after the date of the appointment of the chairperson, and, acting through its...

The arbitrators shall conduct the hearings and render their decision upon the basis of a prompt, peaceful, and just settlement of wage or hour disputes between the state police and the state. The...

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the bargaining agent and the state. Notwithstanding any other remedies which a court appointed arbitrator appointed by the...

Any agreements actually negotiated between the bargaining agent and the state authorities either before or within thirty (30) days after arbitration shall constitute the collective bargaining...

Whenever wages, rates of pay, or any other matter requiring appropriation of money by the state are included as a matter of collective bargaining conducted under this chapter, it is the obligation...

The sole avenue of review of a decision of an arbitration panel issued pursuant to this chapter shall be by petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court. In the event a decision of the...

In the event either the bargaining agent or the state authorities file a petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a review or modification of a...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

The superintendent of the state police shall include proposals for affirmative action provisions as a subject for all collective bargaining negotiations. The proposals include at a minimum, but...

This chapter may be cited as the 911 Employees' Arbitration Act. ...

(a) The protection of the public health, safety, and welfare demands that the full-time 911 employees of the state of Rhode Island not be accorded the right to strike or engage in any work...

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different interpretation, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) 911 employees means the full-time supervisors, assistant...

The 911 employees have the right to bargain collectively with the state of Rhode Island and to be represented by an organization in the collective bargaining as to wages, rates of pay, hours,...

The organization selected by the majority of the 911 employees shall be recognized by the state as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all of the 911 employees unless and until recognition...

It is the obligation of the state, acting through state authorities, to meet and confer in good faith with the designated representative or representatives of the bargaining agent, including any...

In the event that the bargaining agent and the state authorities are unable within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting to reach an agreement on a contract, any and...

Within five (5) days from the expiration of the thirty (30) day period referred to in § 28-9.6-7, the bargaining agent and the state authorities shall each select and name one arbitrator and...

(a) The arbitration board, acting through its chairperson, shall call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after the date of the appointment of the chairperson, and, acting through its...

The arbitrators shall conduct the hearings and render their decision upon the basis of a prompt, peaceful, and just settlement of wage or hour disputes between the 911 employees and the state. The...

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the bargaining agent and the state. Notwithstanding any other remedies which a court appointed arbitrator appointed by the...

Whenever wages, rates of pay, or any other matter requiring appropriation of money by the state are included as matter of collective bargaining conducted under this chapter, it is the obligation...

The sole avenue of review of a decision of an arbitration panel issued pursuant to this chapter shall be by petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court. In the event a decision of the...

In the event either the bargaining agent or the state authorities files a petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a review or modification of a...

If any provision of this chapter, or application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the...

It is the duty of the director of labor and training to do all in his or her power to promote the voluntary mediation and conciliation of controversies and disputes between employers and...

(a) No court of this state has jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving a labor dispute, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open court, with...