CAMARA v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

SJC-10693.

458 Mass. 756 (2011)

MICHAEL A. CAMARA & another v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karla E. Zarbo , Assistant Attorney General ( Anita Maietta , Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the Attorney General.

Thomas E. Pontes for the plaintiffs.

Shannon Liss-Riordan , Ian O. Russell , & Audrey R. Richardson , for Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


BOTSFORD, J.

In this case we consider whether the written policy of the plaintiff ABC Disposal Service, Inc. (ABC), under which a worker found by ABC to be at fault in an accident involving company trucks may agree to a deduction from earned wages in lieu of discipline, violates a key provision of the Massachusetts Wage Act, G. L. c. 149, § 148 (§ 148).3 In ruling on the plaintiff's...

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