The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 21 V.S.A. § 1504)
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§ 1504. General duties
(a) All employers and their officers, agents, and employees or representatives shall exert
every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules,
wages, hours of employment, and conditions of work, and to settle all disputes, whether
arising out of the application of those agreements or growing out of any dispute between
the employer and the employer’s employees.
(b) All labor disputes between employers and their employees shall, upon the request of
either party, be considered within 15 days after the request, or at a time that is
mutually agreed to, and, if possible, settled, with all expedition, in conference
between representatives designated and authorized to confer, by the employer or by
the employer’s employees who are interested in the dispute. However, this obligation
does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or make a concession. (1967, No. 198, § 4; amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 235, eff. July 1, 2024.)