With the written approval of the governor, the commissioner of labor and industry is authorized and empowered to cooperate and contract in the name and on behalf of the state with the United...

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The commissioner or his agent shall make examinations and investigations to see that the laws pertaining to the employment of minors and women and the weekly payment of wages are being complied...

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With the approval of the governor, the commissioner of labor and industry may suspend the operation of the laws relating to the hours of employment of women and children while the United States is...

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(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to assure that elevators and other automated conveyances are correctly and safely installed and operated within the state by authorizing and enforcing rules...

(a) This subchapter regulates the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following conveyances and associated parts that are installed in...

No person shall erect, construct, wire, alter, replace or maintain any conveyance located in any public building in this state unless the person is licensed as an elevator mechanic, except that...

(a) The elevator safety review board is established within the department, and shall consist of five members, one of whom shall be the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, and four members...

An individual shall submit to the commissioner a written application for an elevator inspector license on a form provided by the board, accompanied by the required fee. A license shall be granted...

(a) A license issued by the board shall be valid for two years. The board may renew a license, provided the applicant submits a written application for renewal accompanied by the required fee...

After notice and hearing, the board may suspend or revoke a license and assess administrative penalties pursuant to section 156 of this title for any of the following reasons: (1) Fraud or...

(a) No conveyance shall be erected, constructed, installed or altered in a public building unless a permit has been obtained from the department before work is commenced. Before a material...

(a) A new conveyance shall not be placed in operation until it has been inspected by an elevator inspector, and a certificate of operation has been issued. (b) Every conveyance subject to this...

A licensed elevator inspector shall submit to the department an insurance policy, or certified copy issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in Vermont, that provides general...

(a) The commissioner may contract with elevator inspectors to perform random on-site inspections and tests on existing conveyances, conduct periodic inspections and tests to ensure satisfactory...

This subchapter shall not be construed to relieve any person that owns, operates, controls, maintains, erects, constructs, installs, alters, inspects, tests or repairs any elevator or other...

(a) Any owner or lessee who violates any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be fined not more than $ 1,500.00 for each occurrence. (b) The commissioner may, after notice and hearing,...

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(a) It is the policy of the state of Vermont that in their employment all persons shall be provided by their employers with safe and healthful working conditions at their work place, and that...

The purpose of this chapter is to provide efficient implementation of the policy of the state expressed in section 201 of this title. ...

As used in this chapter: (1) Act means the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, enacted by the Congress of the United States of America, and rules made thereunder, as amended at any...

(a) Chapter 25 of Title 3, relating to administrative procedure, shall apply to this chapter and the VOSHA Code. (b) All or part of a printed publication of standards or rules, including but not...

(a) In cases involving a work place, the secretary of human services, in the case of health standards, and the commissioner in the case of safety standards, may grant a variance from a standard or...

(a) The commissioner or the director, or their agents, may enter upon a premise, upon presenting appropriate credentials to the occupant, at reasonable times, for the purpose of inspecting the...

All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the commissioner or the director, or their agents, in connection with any inspection or proceeding under this chapter or the VOSHA Code, which...

(a) Whenever the commissioner finds that any workplace is in violation of any portion of the VOSHA Code or this chapter and that the violation creates a dangerous condition which can be reasonably...

Except as to matters provided for in subchapter 5 of this chapter, a person aggrieved by an order or action of the commissioner under this chapter, or a rule thereunder, may appeal to the superior...

(a) Upon issuance of a citation under this chapter, the review board is authorized to assess civil penalties for grounds provided in this subsection. In assessing civil penalties, the review board...

The VOSHA Code shall apply with respect to employers, employees and employment in or at a work place in the state of Vermont, except that: (1) Standards applicable to products which are...

(a) Each employer 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 significant...

(a) The commissioner shall make and promulgate rules and standards necessary to implement the purposes and duties set forth in this subchapter insofar as they relate to safety, and to enforcement...

(a) If, upon inspection or investigation the commissioner or the director, or the agent of either of them, finds that an employer has violated a requirement of the VOSHA Code, the commissioner...

(a) After issuing a citation under section 225 of this title, the commissioner shall notify the employer by certified mail or by service by an agent, of the penalty, if any, proposed to be...

(a) Employers shall keep and file all reports and records required under the Act, and any reports and records which the commissioner or the secretary of human services may require by rule. (b) The...

(a) For advice and assistance in making rules under the VOSHA Code, the commissioner may appoint such safety advisory councils as he deems necessary, and the secretary of human services may...

(a) An occupational safety and health review board is created. It shall consist of three members who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. The members of...

(a) No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or...

An employee aggrieved by a violation of section 231 of this title may bring an action in superior court for appropriate relief, including but not limited to reinstatement, triple wages, damages,...

Without limiting the commissioner's authority to make rules under subchapter 5 of this chapter, the commissioner is authorized to make rules pertaining to boilers and pressure vessels, and...

The commissioner has authority to obtain specific information from boiler insurance companies, on forms furnished by them, which shall first be approved by the commissioner. The commissioner may...

All boiler inspectors, employed by the state and insurance companies, shall have passed the examination required by the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors, and hold annual...

The commissioner may assess penalties pursuant to section 254 of this title against a person who violates this subchapter or any rule adopted under this subchapter. ...

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(a) As used in this subchapter public building means buildings owned or occupied by public utilities, hospitals, schools, houses of worship, convalescent centers and homes for the aged, infirm...

(a) Whenever the commissioner finds that a premises or any part of it does not meet the standards promulgated under this subchapter, he may order it repaired or rehabilitated. If it is not...

(a) A person who violates any provision of this subchapter or any order or regulation issued pursuant thereto shall be fined not more than $ 10,000.00. The state's attorney of the county in which...

The commissioner shall biennially cause an examination to be made of all state buildings and shall report his findings and recommendations to the secretary of administration on or before July 1 of...

(a) The legislative body of a municipality may appoint one or more trained and qualified officials and may establish procedures to enforce rules and standards adopted under section 252(a) of this...

(a) The fire prevention special fund revenues shall be from the following sources: (1) 21 V.S.A. §§ 243 and 246, fees relating to boilers and pressure vessels; (2) 21 V.S.A. § 252, fees...

As used in this subchapter: (1) Explosive materials includes explosives, explosive materials, blasting agent and detonator, as defined in section 841 of Title 18 of the United States...

Without limiting his authority to make rules and set standards under subchapter 5 of this chapter, the commissioner may promulgate rules and standards for explosion prevention, fire prevention and...

Without warrant the commissioner, a member of the state police, a sheriff, a deputy sheriff, police officer or constable may seize materials held by a person in violation of rules promulgated...

After an inspection the commissioner may issue an appropriate order to remove or abate a condition dangerous to persons or property involving explosive materials, flammable materials or hazardous...

(a) Definitions. -- For purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions apply: (1) Builder means the general contractor or other person in charge of construction, who has the power to...

(a) The department of public service shall carry out an accreditation process for home energy rating organizations, in consultation with representatives of interested parties including builders,...

As used in this chapter, (1) Ambulatory disability means an impairment which prevents or impedes walking. A person shall be considered to have an ambulatory disability if the person:...

(a) An access board is created consisting of ten members. The members of the board shall be the commissioner of labor and industry, or designee; the chair of the house institutions committee, or...

(a) The following are exempt from the provisions of this chapter, unless compliance with access standards is required by federal law: (1) alterations to privately funded and operated dwelling...

Any parking facility on the premises of a building open to and used by the public shall contain at least the number of parking spaces required by ADAAG standards, and in any event at least one...

All public buildings that comply with the standards adopted under this chapter may be marked with the international symbol of access. ...

(a) The department of labor and industry shall enforce the provisions of this chapter relating to facilities for the handicapped and shall adopt rules which are necessary for the performance of...

(a) For the purposes of this subchapter, residential construction means new construction of one family or multifamily dwellings. Residential construction shall not include a single family...

It shall be unlawful for any employer, as defined in section 302 of this title, to require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination as a condition of...

Employer as used in this subchapter shall mean and include an individual, a partnership, an association, a corporation, a legal representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, and any...

Any employer who violates the provisions of this subchapter shall be fined not more than $ 100.00 for each and every violation. ...

An employer shall provide an employee with reasonable opportunities during work periods to eat and to use toilet facilities in order to protect the health and hygiene of the employee. ...

(a) Employee as used in this chapter means a person who has entered into the employment of an employer, where the employer is unable to show that: (1) the individual has been and will...

(a) Upon complaint to the department of labor and industry by an employee that wages have not been paid to the employee by the employer, the commissioner of labor and industry or the...

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Such employer shall not pay its employees with any form of evidence of indebtedness including, without limitation, all scrip, vouchers, due bills, or store orders, unless: (1) the employer is a...

An assignment of future wages payable under the provisions of section 342 of this title shall not be valid, if made to the employer from whom such wages are to become due, or to anyone in behalf...

Each employer who violates sections 342 and 343 of this title and the officers of any corporation, cooperative or stock association, who fraudulently permit their corporation, or cooperative...

In addition to any other penalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer who is party to a written agreement to provide benefits or wage supplements, and who fails to pay the...

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A person who violates section 342 or 343 of this title shall forfeit to the individual injured twice the value thereof, to be recovered in a civil action, and all costs and reasonable attorney's...

It is the declared public policy of the state of Vermont that workers employed in any occupation should receive wages sufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect their health, and to...

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Terms used in this subchapter have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context: (1) Commissioner, the commissioner of labor and...

(a) An employer shall not employ an employee at a rate less than $ 5.75 an hour, and after December 31, 2000, at a rate less than $ 6.25 an hour. If the minimum wage rate established by the United...

The commissioner may, and on a petition of fifty or more residents of the state shall, make an investigation of any industry, business, occupation or employment as set forth in section 385 of this...

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If any employer covered by a wage order has failed to comply with the wage order within 10 days after receiving notification of the violation, the commissioner shall take court action to enforce...

Every employer, subject to the provisions of this subchapter or of any regulation or order issued thereunder, shall keep a true and accurate record of the hours worked by each employee and of the...

(a) Any employer, subject to this subchapter or any regulations or orders issued thereunder, or any of the employer's agents or the officer or agent of any corporation who pays or permits to be...

If any employee is paid by an employer less than the applicable wage rate to which the employee is entitled under this subchapter, the employee shall recover, in a civil action, twice the amount...

(a) Appeals to superior court wherein a civil action between the parties would be triable. -- Any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner may appeal to the superior court. (b)...

(a) It is the policy of Vermont that children shall be protected from employment in harmful and dangerous occupations. Toward this end, Vermont law should reflect federal protections regarding the...

Except as provided in this subchapter, a child under 16 years of age shall not be employed in any gainful occupation unless the child deposits with the employer a certificate from the commissioner...

(a) The commissioner shall not issue a certificate for a child under 16 pursuant to section 431 of this title until the commissioner has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers...

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A child under 16 years of age shall not be employed more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or earlier than seven o'clock in the morning, or after seven o'clock at...

When so ordered by the commissioner of education, the superintendent of schools for the school district where the child under 16 resides shall examine the child for the purpose of determining the...

A child under 14 years of age shall not be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any gainful occupation unless the occupation has been approved by the commissioner, by rule, to be appropriate...

(a) Except as provided in section 438 of this title, a child shall not be employed, permitted or suffered to work at or on any occupations, employment, operations or machines determined to be...

A child over 14 years of age, who is enrolled in a technical education program or course duly approved by the state board of education, may be legally employed in any of the occupations or...

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An employer shall post in a conspicuous place in the place in which a child is employed, a printed notice describing permitted and prohibited operations, occupations and machines at which a child...

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(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) Alien means any person not a citizen of the United States; (2) Employer means any person, including any partnership, firm, corporation or...

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The commissioner may inquire of the owner or superintendent of any place or establishment, as to the employment of children, may request to see the certificate filed with the owner or...

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A person who violates a provision of this subchapter for which another penalty is not provided shall be fined not more than $ 5,000.00 for each offense and, upon a subsequent conviction, may be...

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Truant officers and all informing officers are authorized to make complaints for violations or offenses arising under this subchapter. A complaint for a violation of section 448 of this title...

The commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may suspend part or all of the provisions of this subchapter for a period not to exceed two months in any one year in the case of a...

No person, partnership, corporation or association shall knowingly sell, offer or expose for sale, take orders for the future delivery of, or possess with intent to sell any article, product or...

As used in this subchapter: (1) Employer means an individual, organization or governmental body, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in...

(a) During any 12-month period, an employee shall be entitled to take unpaid leave for a period not to exceed 12 weeks: (1) for parental leave, during the employee's pregnancy and following the...

(a) In addition to the leave provided in section 472 of this title, an employee shall be entitled to take unpaid leave not to exceed four hours in any 30-day period and not to exceed 24 hours in...

An employer shall not discharge or in any other manner retaliate against an employee because: (1) the employee lodged a complaint of a violation of a provision of this subchapter; or (2) the...

(a) The attorney general or a state's attorney may enforce the provisions of this subchapter by bringing a civil action for temporary or permanent injunctive relief, economic damages, including...

(a) Any duly qualified member of the reserve components of the armed forces, of the ready reserve, or an organized unit of the national guard who leaves a position other than a temporary...

(a) Any absence for military training or state active duty shall not affect the employee's right to receive normal vacation, sick leave, bonus, advancement and other advantages of employment...

(a) If any employer fails to comply with any of the provisions of this subchapter, the employee may bring an action at law for damages for noncompliance, or apply to the superior court for...

As used in this subchapter: (1) Employer means any individual, organization, or governmental body including partnership, association, trustee, estate, corporation, joint stock company,...

The following employers may require that an applicant for employment take or submit to a polygraph examination, or administer or cause to be administered, a polygraph examination to an applicant...

(a) An examiner administering a polygraph examination under this subchapter shall: (1) prior to the examination, provide the examinee with a copy of this subchapter and a copy of all questions...

No employee shall be discharged, disciplined or discriminated against in any manner for filing a complaint or testifying in any proceeding or action involving violations of the provisions of this...

Any individual violating any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be fined not less than $ 500.00, nor more than $ 1,000.00 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, and the penalty...

(a) It shall be unlawful employment practice, except where a bona fide occupational qualification requires persons of a particular race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation,...

(a) The attorney general or a state's attorney may enforce the provisions of this subchapter by restraining prohibited acts, seeking civil penalties, obtaining assurances of discontinuance and...

This subchapter shall not be construed as limiting the rights of employers to hire and fire and of labor organizations to determine the membership as long as such rights are not exercised in...

For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) Employer means any individual, organization, or governmental body including any partnership, association, trustee, estate, corporation, joint stock...

The superior courts may order restitution of wages or other benefits on behalf of a class of employees similarly situated, and may order reinstatement and other appropriate relief on behalf of a...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, it is not unlawful discrimination on the basis of age or disability for any employer, employment agency or labor organization to observe the...

(a) All employers, employment agencies and labor organizations have an obligation to ensure a workplace free of sexual harassment. (b) Every employer shall: (1) Adopt a policy against sexual...

(a) Any person who, in order to serve as a member of the general assembly, must leave a full-time position in the employ of any employer, shall be entitled to a temporary or partial leave of...

The purpose of this subchapter is to carry on a continuing program to promote the employment of people with disabilities in Vermont by creating state-wide interest in the rehabilitation and...

There is hereby established a permanent committee to be known as the Vermont governor's committee on employment of people with disabilities, to consist of twenty-one members, including a...

(a) The committee shall coordinate a program to promote the employment of people with disabilities by creating state-wide interest in the rehabilitation and employment of people with disabilities...

The month of October is designated as Disability Awareness Month. ...

The Vermont governor's committee on employment of people with disabilities is authorized to receive any gifts, grants or donations made for any of the purposes of its program. ...

(a) The chair of the governor's committee on employment of people with disabilities or his or her designated representative may authorize or sponsor fund raising events and the revenue therefrom...

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(a) No employer may discharge an employee by reason of his service as a juror, or penalize such employee or deprive him of any right, privilege, or benefit on a basis which discriminates between...

As used in this subchapter: (1) Blind or visually impaired person means a person whose visual acuity with correction is no better than 20/60, or whose field of vision subtends an angle of no...

The division shall have the authority to: (1) establish vending facilities on state property; (2) coordinate with the commissioner of buildings and general services or the designee of the...

If it is determined by the department of aging and disabilities and the department of buildings and general services that a vending facility is not economically feasible in a particular location,...

(a) All net income from a vending facility on state property shall accrue to the blind or visually impaired person licensed to operate that facility. (b) All net income from vending machines not...

Where vending facilities on state property are operated by those other than blind or visually impaired persons on July 1, 1984, the contracts of these vending facilities may be renewed or...

The following are exempt from the provisions of this subchapter: (1) food services or vending machines provided by hospitals or residential institutions as a direct service to patients,...

As used in this subchapter: (1) Applicant for employment means an individual seeking or being sought for employment with an employer. (2) Designated laboratory means a laboratory...

(a) General prohibition. -- Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an employer or an employment agency shall not, as a condition of employment, do any of the following: (1)...

(a) General prohibition. -- Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, an employer shall not, as a condition of employment, promotion or change of status of employment, or as an...

(a) A medical review officer shall contact personally an employee or applicant who has a positive test result and explain the results and why the results may not be accurate. (b) The medical...

(a) Any health care information about an individual to be tested shall be taken only by a medical review officer and shall be confidential and shall not be released to anyone except the individual...

This subchapter shall not restrict an employer's authority to prohibit the nonprescribed use of drugs or alcohol during work hours, or restrict an employer's authority to discipline, suspend or...

(a) On or before July 1, 1989, the commissioner of health pursuant to chapter 25 of Title 3 shall set nontherapeutic levels of therapeutic drugs by establishing a range of values by considering...

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(a) So far as it is necessary in his examinations, investigations and in the determination of matters within his jurisdiction, the commissioner shall have power to subpoena witnesses, administer...

The commissioner shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure except as provided in this chapter, but he may make such investigation...

Upon the application of a party in a cause pending before him and on such notice to the adverse party or his attorney as he thinks reasonable, the commissioner may issue a commission to a person...

Questions arising under the provisions of this chapter, if not settled by agreement of the parties interested therein with the approval of the commissioner, shall be determined, except as...

The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed so as to make the state an employer where it only renders state aid to a municipality or approves of its plans or supervisors. ...

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The provisions of this chapter relating to the state as an employer shall be deemed to be an election by the state where an election is required by the provisions of this chapter. ...

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(a) (1) If a worker receives a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment by an employer subject to this chapter, the employer or the insurance carrier shall pay...

If a worker who has been hired in this state receives personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of such employment, he shall be entitled to compensation according to the law of...

If a worker who has been hired outside of this state is injured while engaged in his employer's business and is entitled to compensation for such injury under the law of the state where he was...

The provisions of this chapter shall affect the liability of employers to employees engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or otherwise only so far as the same is permissible under the laws of...

Except as provided in subsection 618(b) and section 624 of this title, the rights and remedies granted by the provisions of this chapter to an employee on account of a personal injury for which he...

Employers who hire workers within this state to work outside of the state may agree with such workers that the remedies under the provisions of this chapter shall be exclusive as regards injuries...

(a) Where the injury for which compensation is payable under the provisions of this chapter was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability to pay the resulting damages in some person...

An employer shall not be relieved in whole or in part from liability created by the provisions of this chapter by any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever. ...

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If death results from the injury, the employer shall pay to the persons entitled to compensation or, if there is none, then to the personal representative of the deceased employee, burial and...

The commissioner shall, from time to time, apportion such compensation between any and all dependents named in section 632 of this title in such manner as he deems best and in making such...

The following persons, and they only, shall be deemed dependents and entitled to compensation under the provisions of sections 632 and 633 of this title: (1) A child, if under eighteen years of...

The compensation provided for by the provisions of this chapter shall be payable during the following periods: (1) To a spouse until: (A) The age of 62 if at that time the spouse is...

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

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In cases of the death of a person from any cause other than the accident during the period of payments for disability or for the permanent injury, the remaining payments for disability then due or...

(a) An employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall furnish reasonable surgical, medical and nursing services and supplies to an injured employee. The employer shall also furnish...

(a) When as a result of an injury covered by this chapter, an employee is unable to perform work for which the employee has previous training or experience, the employee shall be entitled to...

Payments shall not continue after such disability ends. ...

Unless an injured worker has successfully returned to work, an employer shall notify both the commissioner and the employee prior to terminating benefits under either section 642 or section 646 of...

(a) For purposes of this section: (1) Employer shall be defined as provided in section 601 of this title provided that this section shall only apply to employers who regularly employ at least...

The commissioner shall notify the employer and worker of the provisions of section 643b of this title as soon as a claim is filed if, in the commissioner's opinion, it appears that they will be...

(a) In case of the following injuries, the disability caused thereby shall be deemed total and permanent: (1) The total and permanent loss of sight in both eyes; (2) The loss of both feet at...

Where the disability for work resulting from an injury is partial, during the disability and beginning on the eighth day thereof, the employer shall pay the injured employee a weekly compensation...

Payments shall not continue after such temporary partial disability ends. ...

(a) Where the injury results in a partial impairment which is permanent and which does not result in permanent total disability, compensation shall be paid during the period of total disability,...

Compensation shall not be allowed for an injury caused by an employee's wilful intention to injure himself or another or by or during his intoxication or by an employee's failure to use a safety...

(a) Average weekly wages shall be computed in such manner as is best calculated to give the average weekly earnings of the worker during the twelve weeks preceding an injury; but where, by reason...

(a) Upon application of either party, the commissioner may authorize compensation to be paid monthly or quarterly instead of weekly, having regard to the welfare of the employee and the...

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Whenever, for any reason, the commissioner deems it expedient, any lump sum which is to be paid as provided in section 653 of this title shall be paid by the employer to some bank, banking...

After an injury and during the period of disability, if so requested by his employer, or ordered by the commissioner, the employee shall submit himself to examination, at reasonable times and...

(a) A proceeding under the provisions of this chapter for compensation shall not be maintained unless a notice of the injury has been given to the employer as soon as practicable after the injury...

The notice and claim required under the provisions of section 656 of this title shall be in writing. Such notice shall contain the name and address of the employee, shall state in ordinary...

A notice under the provisions of this chapter shall be given to the employer, or, if the employer is a partnership, then to any one of the partners. If the employer is a corporation, then the...

(a) A notice given under the provisions of this chapter shall not be held invalid or insufficient by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place, nature or cause of the injury, or...

(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) Electronic data interchange or EDI technology means the computer-to-computer exchange of business transactions in the standardized structured...

Limitation of time provided by this chapter shall not run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor dependent so long as such person has no guardian. ...

If the compensation is not fixed by agreement, either party may apply to the commissioner for hearing and award in the premises who shall set a time and place for hearing and give at least six...

Within sixty days after a hearing is held, the commissioner shall make an award supported by findings of fact and the applicable law and shall send a copy of the award to the parties. If the...

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Notices of hearings under the provisions of this chapter shall be given to the employee, employer and to the insurance carrier. Such notice shall be given by delivering it or by sending it by...

(a) Whenever it appears that a dispute exists regarding the reasonableness and necessity of treatment for an injury, or regarding the claimant's ability to perform suitable work, including light...

Upon the commissioner's own motion or upon the application of any party in interest upon the ground of a change in the conditions, or whenever doubts have arisen as to the jurisdiction of the...

Within thirty days after copies of an award have been sent as provided by this chapter, either party may appeal to the superior court of a county wherein a civil action between the parties would...

The jurisdiction of such court shall be limited to a review of questions of fact or questions of fact and law certified to it by the commissioner and upon completion of the case in superior court,...

If an appeal is not taken under the provisions of section 670 of this title within the time limited therefor, either party may transfer such cause to the supreme court. The jurisdiction of such...

On petition and proof and in its discretion, the supreme or superior court may grant leave to enter an appeal from an order of the commissioner of labor and industry in cases where the petitioner...

Such petition shall not be sustained unless served on the adverse party within twenty-one days from the date thereof and within two years after the last date upon which such appeal might have been...

Upon the filing with it of a certified copy of a decision of the commissioner ending, diminishing or increasing compensation previously awarded, a superior court which has rendered judgment as...

The commissioner may grant a new hearing in a cause determined by him on the ground of newly discovered evidence when a petition, setting forth the substance of such evidence, verified by the oath...

(a) Necessary costs of proceedings under this chapter shall be assessed by the commissioner against the employer or its workers' compensation carrier when the claimant prevails. The commissioner...

Sheriffs and witnesses shall receive the same fees for the service of process and attendance before the commissioner as are paid sheriffs and witnesses in superior court. ...

All rights of compensation granted by the provisions of this chapter shall have the same preference or priority against the assets of the employer or the property of any persons described in...

Claims of physicians and hospitals for services rendered under the provisions of this chapter and claims of attorneys for services rendered an employee in prosecuting a claim under the provisions...

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(a) Employers, not including state, county or municipal bodies, shall secure compensation for their employees in one or more of the following ways: (1) By insuring and keeping insured the...

(a) Any association which has been in existence in this state for five or more continuous years may establish and maintain a nonprofit corporation to secure workers' compensation insurance for...

(a) The commissioner, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, may assess administrative penalties of not more than $ 5,000.00 against any employer, insurance company, or their agents that the...

An employer subject to the provisions of this chapter who has taken out insurance under section 689 of this title or as provided in subdivisions (1) or (2) of section 687 of this title shall file...

An employer who has complied with the provisions of this chapter relating to securing the payment of compensation to his employees and their dependents shall post and maintain, in a conspicuous...

(a) If after hearing under section 688 of this title, the commissioner determines that an employer has failed to comply with the provisions of section 687 of this title, the employer shall be...

Every policy of insurance and every guarantee contract covering the liability of an employer for compensation shall cover the entire liability of such employer to his employees covered by such...

Such policies and contracts shall contain a provision that, as between the employee and the insurance carrier, notice to or knowledge of the occurrence of an injury on the part of the employer...

Such a policy or contract shall not be cancelled within the time limited in such policy or contract for its expiration, until at least 45 days after a notice of intention to cancel such policy or...

An insurance carrier who does not intend to renew a policy of workers' compensation insurance or guarantee contract covering the liability of an employer under the provisions of this chapter, 45...

The state and municipalities which are liable to their employees for compensation under the provisions of this chapter may insure with an authorized insurance carrier. ...

An agreement by an employee to pay any portion of the cost of insurance of any kind maintained or carried by an employer for the purpose of securing compensation under the provisions of this...

At the request of a holder of a policy of workers' compensation insurance, the commissioner of banking, insurance, securities, and health care administration shall examine the policy to determine...

Such reports shall state the name and nature of the business of the employer, the location of the place where the accident occurred, the name, age, sex, wages and occupation of the injured...

Within sixty days after disability, such employer or other party liable to pay the compensation provided for by this chapter shall file with the commissioner a statement showing the total payments...

An employer as defined in section 616 of this title, upon written request of the commissioner, sent by certified mail, shall file on forms provided by the commissioner such statistical information...

The employers mentioned in section 704 of this title shall register with the department of labor and industry, on forms provided by it, when commencing or ceasing business operations in the state...

Employer, as used in sections 704 and 705 of this title shall not be construed to include persons operating farms for agricultural purposes. ...

In each even year, the commissioner shall make a report to the governor showing the work done during the preceding two years and shall include therein a properly classified statement of his...

(a) A person who wilfully makes a false statement or representation, for the purpose of obtaining any benefit or payment under the provisions of this chapter, either for her or himself or for any...

In construing the provisions of this chapter, the rule of law that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall not be applied. The provisions of this chapter shall...

(a) No person, firm or corporation shall refuse to employ any applicant for employment because such applicant asserted a claim for workers' compensation benefits under this chapter or under the...

(a) A workers' compensation administration fund is created pursuant to subchapter 5 of chapter 7 of Title 32 to be expended by the commissioner for the administration of the workers' compensation...

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The commissioner shall administer this chapter and, in consultation with the commissioners of banking, insurance, securities, and health care administration and employment and training, adopt...

(a) No person shall engage in the business of employee leasing in Vermont unless the person is granted a license by the commissioner under this chapter. Only qualified applicants as determined by...

(a) Each controlling person of an applicant or licensee shall: (1) be at least 18 years of age; and (2) have a personal history of honesty, trustworthiness and fairness and a reputation for...

(a) A licensee shall: (1) Register with the following within ten days after licensure under this chapter: (A) The department of employment and training. (B) The department of taxes....

(a) Workers' compensation insurance premiums shall be determined and paid based on the experience rating of the client company for which the leased employee performs services, provided the client...

(a) The department of employment and training shall charge unemployment compensation benefits against the experience rating record of the client company in accordance with the provisions of...

(a) An employee leasing company that offers employee benefit and welfare plans shall offer comparable benefits to each client company, but is not required to provide comparable benefits to leased...

(a) For purposes of the collective bargaining process, including the right to organize employee units based upon specific work sites, an employee leasing company shall be bound by law and liable...

Unprofessional conduct includes: (1) Failure to maintain financial responsibility and management competence. (2) Occupational advertising that is intended or tends to deceive the public....

(a) The commissioner may revoke, suspend, restrict or place on probation the license of any employee leasing company, after a hearing, for a violation of any provision of this chapter or for a...

The apprenticeship division and state apprenticeship council, hereinafter referred to as the council, shall be located within the department of employment and training. The commissioner of...

The council shall meet semiannually and as often as may be necessary in the opinion of the majority of the members. The chair shall designate the time and place of all meetings. The council shall...

The commissioner of employment and training, with the approval of the governor, shall have power to employ and fix the compensation of such personnel of the apprenticeship division as the...

The standards established by the council under section 1102 of this title shall apply only to a person, firm, corporation, employer, organization of employers or of employees which voluntarily...

The state of Vermont hereby accepts the provisions of the act of Congress, approved June 6, 1933, entitled An act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for...

The commissioner of employment and training is hereby designated and constituted the agent of the state of Vermont for the purposes of such act, with full power to cooperate with all authorities...

There is hereby created, under the direction of the commissioner of employment and training, a division to be known as the Vermont employment service division, responsible for administering a...

The state treasurer is hereby authorized to receive, on behalf of this state, all funds granted to it under authority of such act. ...

This chapter may be terminated by the governor at any time, upon notice to the United States department of labor, when in his judgment the need for the same no longer exists. However, such notice...

Displaced homemaker means a person who: (1) has worked in the home for a substantial number of years providing unpaid household services for family members; and (2) has or is expected to...

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The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Benefits and compensation means the money...

The department of employment and training, created by section 212 of Title 3, shall consist of a commissioner of employment and training, the Vermont employment security board, the Vermont...

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(a) There is hereby created a board of three members to be known as the Vermont employment security board. The members of the board shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent...

Any two members of the board shall constitute a quorum to transact business. No vacancy shall impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all of the powers of the board, as long as a...

There is hereby established within the department of employment and training, the Vermont employment service division, the unemployment compensation division and the comprehensive employment and...

(a) With the approval of the governor, the commissioner shall appoint a director of the comprehensive employment and training office and fix his salary. The director shall serve at the pleasure of...

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The governor shall appoint a state advisory council of nine members composed of an equal number of employer representatives, of employee representatives who may fairly be regarded as...

The commissioner of employment and training shall administer this chapter. He may employ such persons, make such expenditures, require such reports, make such investigations and take such other...

The commissioner shall determine his method of procedure in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. ...

Before the first day of July of each year, the commissioner shall submit to the governor a report covering the administration and operation of this chapter during the preceding calendar year. The...

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Subject to other provisions of this chapter, the commissioner is authorized to appoint a deputy commissioner and such officers, accountants, attorneys and employees as may be necessary in the...

The commissioner of employment and training using funds made available to the state of Vermont by grant from the United States may, subject to the approval of the governor and in compliance with...

The commissioner shall cause to be printed for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, the board's rules and regulations, his annual reports to the governor, and any other material...

(a) Effective with the calendar quarter ending September 30, 1986 and all subsequent calendar quarters, each employing unit which is an employer as defined in subdivision 1301(5) of this chapter,...

In the administration of this chapter, the commissioner shall cooperate to the fullest extent consistent with the provisions thereof, with the secretary of labor; shall make such reports, in such...

Upon request therefor the commissioner shall furnish to any agency of the United States charged with the administration of public works or assistance through public employment, the name, address,...

(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the federal government whereby potential rights to benefits accumulated under...

The commissioner also is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the federal government adjusting the collecting and payment of...

(a) The commissioner is authorized to make such investigations, secure and transmit such information, make available such services and facilities and exercise such of the other powers provided...

(a) Payment of Contributions. Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which he is subject to this chapter, with respect to wages paid for...

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Any contractor, who is or becomes an employer under the provisions of this chapter, who contracts with any out-of-state or nonresident subcontractor, who also is or becomes an employer under the...

(a) An employing unit shall cease to be an employer subject to this chapter only as of the first day of January of any calendar year, if it files with the commissioner, on or before March 31 next...

(a) For contribution rate years beginning prior to July 1, 1987, the standard rate of contributions shall be five and four-tenths percent. Each employer who has not been subject to this chapter...

(a) The commissioner shall maintain an experience-rating record for each employer. Benefits paid to an eligible individual with a benefit year beginning prior to January 3, 1988, shall be charged...