Mass-Peculiarities: An Employers Guide to Wage & Hour Law in the Bay State 2022 Edition

Table of Contents (con’t) Page © 2022 Seyfarth Shaw LLP Massachusetts Wage & Hour Peculiarities, 2022 ed. | vii (2) Creative Professional Exemption ..................................108 (a) Work Requiring Invention, Imagination, Originality, or Talent.........................................108 (b) Recognized Field of Artistic or Creative Endeavor ..........................................................109 d. Computer Professional Exemption ...........................................109 4. Highly Compensated Employee Exemption .........................................111 B. Other Exemptions ..........................................................................................112 1. Outside Sales Exemption ....................................................................112 a. Federal Outside Sales Exemption .............................................112 b. Massachusetts Outside Sales Exemption...................................114 2. Federal Commissioned Inside Sales Exemption ...................................115 3. Motor Carrier Exemptions...................................................................116 a. Federal Motor Carrier Act Exemption ......................................116 b. Massachusetts Motor Carrier Exemption ..................................118 c. Massachusetts Common Carrier Exemption..............................118 4. Seasonal Exemptions ..........................................................................119 a. Federal Seasonal Exemption ....................................................119 b. Massachusetts Seasonal Exemptions ........................................120 5. Blanket Exemptions for Certain Businesses .........................................120 6. Other Massachusetts Exemptions ........................................................121 VII. Massachusetts Equal Pay Act.....................................................................................122 A. “Comparable Work” ......................................................................................123 B. Permitted Justifications for Wage Differentials ...............................................124 C. Prohibition on Salary History Requests ...........................................................125 D. Prohibition on Pay Secrecy Requirements .......................................................125 E. Self-Evaluation Defense .................................................................................125 F. Damages........................................................................................................127