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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, § 111 (2026)

Vacations of certain employees

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Section 111. In any city or town which has accepted chapter two hundred and seventeen of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen or has accepted this section in any form, or which accepts this section in the manner hereinafter provided, or has accepted earlier provisions of this section, every permanent civil service employee as well as every person classified as a common laborer, skilled laborer, mechanic or craftsman, shall be granted a vacation of not less than two weeks without loss of pay in each calendar year if he has actually worked for such city or town for thirty weeks in the aggregate during the twelve months preceding the first day of June in such year. Such vacation shall be granted by the head of the respective department of the city or town at such time as in his opinion will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the city or town. Any official of a city or town whose duty it is to grant a vacation as provided by this section who wilfully refuses to grant the same shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. The attorney general shall enforce this section and shall have all necessary powers therefor.

If a petition requesting that the question of acceptance of this section be submitted to the registered voters of any city or town not already subject to this section, signed by registered voters thereof equal in number to at least one per cent of the whole number of registered voters thereof, is filed with the city or town clerk not less than sixty days before a biennial state election, said city or town clerk shall immediately transmit said petition to the state secretary, who shall cause to be placed upon the official ballot to be used in said city or town at said state election the following question: ''Shall section one hundred and eleven of chapter forty-one of the General Laws, providing for vacations for certain municipal employees, be accepted?'' If a majority of the registered voters of such city or town voting thereon vote in the affirmative in answer to said question, said section shall be applicable in such city or town from and after the beginning of the next municipal year.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1974–1990 · leading case: Chief of Police of Westford v. Town of Westford, 313 N.E.2d 443 (Mass. 1974).
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Chief of Police of Westford v. Town of Westford, 313 N.E.2d 443 (Mass. 1974). · cites it 2× “12, “Vacations,” the judge found that effective January 1, 1971, the town had accepted the provisions of G. L. c. 41, § 111. That section prescribes a minimum vacation of two weeks for employees who have worked for thirty weeks in the twelve months preceding June 1 each year.”
Labor Relations Comm'n v. Town of Natick, 339 N.E.2d 900 (Mass. 1976). “, G. L. c. 41, §§ 111, 111A, 111D, 111G, 111K, and 111L, all dealing with vacations.”
Rein v. Town of Marshfield, 452 N.E.2d 298 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “) Thus while the earlier two versions of the bill provided that officers on leaves be paid “regular compensation,” the final version provided only for “leave without loss of pay.” The statutory scheme has been less than consistent in the use of either “pay” or “compensation.”
Town of Milton v. Pers. Adm'r of the Dep't of Pers. Admin., 406 Mass. 818 (Mass. 1990). “Automatic reinstatement, without the safeguard of department head approval, could expose the municipality to unnecessary liability to third parties, and to the further possibility that the reinstated employee will be reinjured and will be able to receive new and possibly higher…”
Flannery v. Town of Pembroke, 393 N.E.2d 431 (Mass. App. Ct. 1979). · cites it 3× “The town of Pembroke (town) accepted G. L. c. 41, § 111, on November 4, 1952, and G.”
Hulsman v. Town of Marblehead, 1984 Mass. App. Div. 15 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1984). · cites it 3× “The plaintiffs initial contention on this appeal is that, contrary to the ruling of the trial court, the provisions of G. L. c. 41, § 111 as accepted by the defendant Town of Marblehead in Chapter 43A, Section 1 of its By-Laws are inapplicable to the plaintiff as a former police…”
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