SENATE DOCKET, NO. 67        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 724

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act making the members of limited liability companies liable for violations of the payment of wages statute.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 148 of chapter 149 shall be amended by striking the second sentence of the fifth paragraph and replacing it with the following:

Notwithstanding any other provision of the general laws, the president and treasurer of a corporation (whether a for-profit corporation or a not-for-profit corporation), all members and managers of any company formed under chapter 156C, the partners of any partnership, limited partnership or limited liability partnership governed by or registered under any provision of chapters 108A or 109, and all members and managers of any such company and any officers or agents or managers having the management of such corporation, company or partnership shall be deemed to be the employers of the employees of such corporation, company or partnership within the meaning of this section.  The provisions of this section shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of the purposes thereof.