Employment Law
The Fontaine Law Office has experience in a broad range of employment law litigation. Illegal or unjust dismissals has been a frequent type of litigation for the Law Office. It has litigated numerous sex discrimination cases in state and federal courts, including many cases involving discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. Fontaine Law Office has litigated age discrimination cases in both state and federal courts.
Class actions have been filed in severance pay cases involving plant closings and have been successfully resolved for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The office aggressively pursues cases for whistleblowers who have been terminated or discriminated against for having reported violations of the law by their employer. It has litigated a trend setting sexual harassment case against one of the largest employers in the state.
It vigorously enforces the provisions of statutes entitling an employee to have access to her personnel files and to obtain the written reasons for any terminations of employments.In the field of labor relations the office has handled dozens of unfair labor practice cases on behalf on unions before the Maine Labor Relations Board and the National Labor Relations Board. Unions choose Mr. Fontaine as their fact- finder when negotiating parties have reached an impasse in their negotiations. He serves as a fact finder for the Maine Labor Relations Board.
The office has a broad exposure and a broad mission to apply all state and federal laws to the end of improving the working conditions of employees.