Chiappetta v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “Both the language of the statute and its underlying Legislative intent indicate that an award of treble damages is mandatory upon any finding of a failure to have paid wages in violation of §148. ... [A] mandatory award [is] consonant with the general purpose of multiple damages provisions by which the Legislature has traditionally ‘declared its displeasure with the described acts, sought to deter their commission and encouraged vindictive lawsuits if wrongdoing was not stemmed.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2000 Mass. App. Div. 56 - Bollen v. Camp Kingsmont

2. “A mandatory award of treble damages under G.L.c. 149, §150 obviously serves the salutary purposes of deterring employers from taking advantage of their employees and of compensating employees for the time during which they have been deprived of their earned wages.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibbs v. Archie