Section 74: Scrubwomen in state house

Summary

Section 74 provides that women who entered continuous employment as cleaners and scrubwomen at the State House before July 1, 1921, and who have reached age 60 with 15+ years of service (or 10+ years with duty-related incapacity), may be retired with a commonwealth pension of $3 per week for life.

Statutory Text

Section 74. Any woman who entered the continuous employ of the superintendent of buildings or the sergeant-at-arms as a cleaner and scrubwoman prior to July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, if she has reached the age of sixty and has been in such employ for not less than fifteen years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor, or any such employee if she has been in such employ for not less than ten years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor by reason of any injury received in the performance of her duties, may, with the approval of the superintendent, be retired from service, and if so retired she shall receive from the commonwealth for the remainder of her life the sum of three dollars per week.