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Basic Information about Unemployment Benefits
Detailed Information About Unemployment Benefit Claims
Workplace Safety
Pregnancy Discrimination under federal law
Guidance on state Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act
Guidance on state Pay Equity Law, in effect July 1, 2018
Employee Guide to the Family & Medical Leave Act
Massachusetts Sick Time Law Poster
Information About Workers' Compensation
Information About Federal Whistleblowing Laws
Information About Your Right to Engage in Concerted Activity
Information About Representing Yourself in Massachusetts Superior Court
Information About Representing Yourself in Federal Court
Information About COBRA (continuing your health coverage)
Guidance for requesting disability accommodations
Rights under the Massachusetts Temporary Workers Right to Know Law
Information about Non-Compete Agreements
Information on Discrimination on Basis of Criminal Record (CORI)
Poster on new Mass. Paid Family & Medical Leave Act

 

Forms

How to Request your Personnel Records (Employee File) from your Employer: Sample Letter
Non-payment of Wages: Complaint Form

 
Agencies

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Massachusetts Attorney General's Office 
Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance (unemployment benefits)
Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (workers' compensation)
Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations (public employees)
Massachusetts Department of Family & Medical Leave

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
U.S. National Labor Relations Board 
U.S. Department of Labor 
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (federal employees)

 

Key Statutes

STATE LAWS
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B (prohibiting discrimination)
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, § 52C (Personnel Records law)
Pay Equity Law
Paid Family & Medical Leave Act


FEDERAL LAWS
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Age Discrimination in Employment Act 
Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended
Family & Medical Leave Act, as amended
National Labor Relations Act
Occupational Safety & Health Act

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