Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 23D · 25 active provisions
Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Applicant'', any legal entity, or person seeking assistance pursuant to this chapter for an employee involvement or employee ownership project, or, as used in section twenty-four, an educa…
Section 1A. It is hereby found and declared that: There exists in the commonwealth a critical shortage of training and education programs necessary to meet the growing needs of business and industry for skilled employees and the corresponding needs of our people for opportunities for new or more rewarding employment. A…
Section 2. A Massachusetts industrial service program shall be established in the executive office of economic development, under the joint supervision of the director of business and technology, the director of the department of labor, and the director of workforce development. The secretary, in consultation with the…
Section 3. Subject to appropriation, the secretary of economic development and the secretary of labor and workforce development shall hire an executive director and such other employees as they may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the program; provided, however, that in the h…
Section 4. The powers and duties of the Massachusetts industrial service program shall include but not be limited to: (a) assisting, upon the request of a private business, in alleviating, adverse conditions which threaten to cause a large loss of employment, plant closure, or failure by said private business including…
Section 5. In performing the duties pursuant to clause (a) of section four the director may contract with private consultants either for the purpose of assessing the viability of a business likely to experience a large loss of employment, plant closure, or failure, and developing an adjustment strategy to keep the busi…
Section 6. In any case where the program, pursuant to clause (a) of section four is assisting a business to locate new owners, the office shall give priority to effectuating the sale of said business either to its employees or to a resident of Massachusetts. In such cases, the director shall inform the employees that t…
Section 7. Any documentary materials, data, or conversations whatsoever made or received by any employee of the program and consisting of, or to the extent that such materials, data, or conversations consist of, trade secrets or commercial or financial information regarding the operation of any business conducted by an…
[ First paragraph effective until August 5, 2025. For text effective August 5, 2025, see below.] Section 16. There shall be established within the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation a separate fund to be known as the Employee-Ownership Revolving Loan Fund, the proceeds of which shall be used to provide low intere…
Section 17. (a) There is hereby established a Massachusetts center for employee ownership within the Massachusetts office of business development established pursuant to section 1 of chapter 23A. The Massachusetts center for employee ownership shall provide education, conduct outreach and promote efforts to create an o…
Section 18. (a) The duties of the program of employee involvement and ownership shall be consistent with the provisions of section seventeen and shall include, but not be limited to: (1) promotion of employee involvement and employee ownership; (2) coordination with other available state programs, including the executi…
Section 19. The director may promote and accept requests for grants for start-up employee involvement programs in state agencies, the majority of whose employees are not subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty E, authorities of the commonwealth, the Massachusetts board of regents of higher education…
Section 21. No applicant shall receive assistance or funding from the program of employee involvement and ownership without the written consent and participation of any collective bargaining agent for the employees of the applicant's employer and, where said employees are not represented by any collective bargaining ag…
Section 22. The program of employee involvement and ownership shall promote the creation of area labor-management committees and assist said committees in promoting employee involvement and ownership activities in manufacturing, service, and technical industries as well as in the public sector. Said program may award g…
Section 23. No employee shall be disciplined, suspended, terminated, retaliated against or otherwise affected because of the employee's participation or nonparticipation in any employee involvement or employee ownership project or program or activity related to such project or program.
Section 24. The industrial service program may, subject to appropriation or from funds made available from any other public or private source and pursuant to rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section two, provide grants-in-aid to educational institutions, not in excess of two hundred thousand dollars per grant-…
Section 25. Upon approval of a grant-in-aid application by the director, the program shall immediately provide notification of its decision to the department of transitional assistance and the department of labor and workforce development. Such notification shall include the following information regarding the supporte…
Section 26. As used in sections twenty-seven to twenty-nine, inclusive, the following term shall have the following meaning:— ''Displaced homemaker'', an individual who has worked in the home for a substantial number of years providing unpaid household services for family members, has had, or would have, difficulty in…
Section 27. The director of the industrial service program shall appoint members of a state-wide advisory council on displaced homemakers hereafter referred to as the advisory council established for the purpose of making recommendations relative to the implementation and monitoring of a state-wide plan for displaced h…
Section 28. The director with advice from the displaced homemaker advisory council shall provide for the establishment of not less than five multi-purpose service centers, designed to meet the demographic and geographic needs of the displaced homemaker population. These multi-purpose service centers shall provide servi…
Section 29. The director shall report annually to the governor and file a copy thereof with the clerk of the house of representatives and the clerk of the senate and the advisory council on the work of the program. Such report shall include the number of people served at each center, the type of services received, the…
Section 30. (a) As used in this section the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise have the following meanings:— ''Manufacturing network'', a group of five or more private sector firms engaged in trade which work cooperatively to improve competitiveness; the network may also include indust…
Section 31. The industrial service program shall annually submit a complete and detailed report of the program's activities within ninety days after the end of the fiscal year to the clerk of the house of representatives, the clerk of the senate, and the governor. The annual report shall include, but not be limited to,…
Section 32. The books and records of the industrial service program shall be subject to an audit by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
Section 33. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect its purpose.