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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title XXIII - Labor » Title 275 - Protective Legislation

Section 275:1 – Union Membership.

    275:1 Union Membership. – No person shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any person into an agreement, either written or verbal, not to join or become a member of any labor organization, as a condition of securing or continuing in any employment. Source. 1913, 208:1. PL 176:29. RL 212:21. 1947, […]

Section 275:10 – Advances to Laborers.

    275:10 Advances to Laborers. – Whoever enters into an agreement to labor for another in any lumbering operation or in driving logs, and in consideration thereof receives any advance of goods, money or transportation, and without cause fails to enter into said employment as agreed and labor for a sufficient length of time to […]

Section 275:11 – Labor Trouble, Soliciting Help.

    275:11 Labor Trouble, Soliciting Help. – If any employer, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees publicly advertises in newspapers, or by posters or otherwise, for employees, or by himself or his agents solicits persons to work for him to fill the places of strikers, he shall […]

Section 275:12 – Form of Advertisement.

    275:12 Form of Advertisement. – No person shall knowingly publish or circulate any advertisement for employees which does not comply with the foregoing provisions. Source. 1913, 212:1. 1917, 99:1. PL 176:37. RL 212:29.

Section 275:13 – Termination of Labor Trouble.

    275:13 Termination of Labor Trouble. – The provisions of the 2 preceding sections shall cease to be operative when the state board of arbitration shall determine that the business of the employer, in respect to which the strike or other labor trouble occurred, is being carried on in the normal and usual manner, and […]

Section 275:14 – Penalty.

    275:14 Penalty. – If any person shall violate any provision of RSA 275:11 or 12, or shall authorize or permit such violation, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Source. 1913, 212:3. 1917, 99:2. 1923, 92:1. PL 176:39. RL 212:31. RSA 275:14. 1973, 528:165, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.

Section 275:2 – Penalty.

    275:2 Penalty. – Whoever violates any provision of RSA 275:1 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Source. 1913, 208:2. PL 176:30. RL 212:22. RSA 275:2. 1973, 528:162, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.

Section 275:28 – Holidays.

    275:28 Holidays. – No employee shall be required to work in any mill or factory on any legal holiday, except to perform such work as is both absolutely necessary and can lawfully be performed on the Lord’s Day. Source. 1913, 188:1. PL 176:40. RL 212:32.

Section 275:29 – Penalty.

    275:29 Penalty. – Whoever violates RSA 275:28 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Source. 1913, 188:2. PL 176:41. RL 212:33. RSA 275:29. 1973, 529:54, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.

Section 275:3 – Payment for Medical Examination or Records Furnished.

    275:3 Payment for Medical Examination or Records Furnished. – It shall be unlawful for any employer, as defined in RSA 275:4, to require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination or the cost of furnishing any records required by the employer as a condition of employment. Source. […]

Section 275:30 – Day’s Work Defined.

    275:30 Day’s Work Defined. – In all contracts relating to labor, 8 hours’ actual labor shall be taken to be a day’s work unless otherwise agreed by the parties. This provision shall not apply to classes of labor for which the law provides day limits. Source. 1929, 93:1. RL 212:34. RSA 275:30. 1971, 271:1, […]

Section 275:30-a – Lunch or Eating Period.

    275:30-a Lunch or Eating Period. – An employer may not require an employee to work more than 5 consecutive hours without granting him a 1/2 hour lunch or eating period, except if it is feasible for the employee to eat during the performance of his work, and the employer permits him to do so. […]

Section 275:31 – Making Up Time.

    275:31 Making Up Time. – No person shall require or request any employee engaged in any occupation to work more hours in any one day than is limited by law, in order to make up lost time by reason of a legal holiday. Source. 1933, 130:1. RL 212:35. 1951, 225:1 par. 35, eff. Aug. […]

Section 275:32 – Sunday Work.

    275:32 Sunday Work. – Whoever requires an employee engaged in any occupation to do on Sunday the usual work of his occupation, unless he is allowed during the 6 days next ensuing 24 consecutive hours without labor, shall be fined not more than $50; provided that this section and the following section shall not […]

Section 275:33 – Day of Rest.

    275:33 Day of Rest. – No employer shall operate any such business on Sunday unless he or she has posted and made available to employees a schedule containing a list of employees who are required or allowed to work on Sunday and designating the day of rest for each. No employee shall be required […]

Section 275:33-a – Application.

    275:33-a Application. – The provisions of RSA 275:33 shall not apply to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages and homes for the aged. Source. 1959, 183:1, eff. Sept. 8, 1959.

Section 275:33-b – Special Agreement.

    275:33-b Special Agreement. – Employers may be exempt from RSA 275:32 and 33 where mutual agreements are reached between employer and employees, after approval of the labor commissioner where it appears for the best interests of all parties concerned. Source. 1963, 237:2, eff. Aug. 31, 1963.

Section 275:34 – Applications of Provisions.

    275:34 Applications of Provisions. – RSA 275:32 and 33 shall not apply to establishments used for the manufacture or distribution of gas, electricity, milk or water, nor to the transportation, sale, or delivery of food. Source. 1933, 130:1. RL 212:38. 1951, 225:1 par. 38, eff. Aug. 29, 1951.

Section 275:35 – Exceptions.

    275:35 Exceptions. – RSA 275:32 and 33 shall not apply to the following employees: I. Janitors, watchmen, firemen employed at stationary plants, or caretakers. II. Employees whose duties on Sunday include only setting sponges in bakeries; caring for live animals or caring for machinery and plant equipment. III. Employees engaged in the preparation, printing, […]