Legal Updates

Fed Ex Overtime pay class action filed. The case was filed in federal court on December 9, 2010, to stop the practice of Fed-Ex treating their employee as though they were "Independent Contractors." The company controls all their working conditions and is required by the Fair Labor Standards Act to pay them time and one half for hours over 40. The case will involve hundreds of Maine based drivers.
December 20, 2010
United States Supreme Court on June 11 ruled that domestic employees, in order to be exempt from overtime, need not be employed directly by the patient.
June 18, 2007

June 18, 2007
Starting July 24, 2007, the federal minimum wage increases to $5.85 per hour, and then is scheduled to increase twice more over the next two years.
June 5, 2007
NEA Higher Education Conference - PowerPoint presentation
March 8, 2007
Maine retired teacher wins Social Security hearing adding four quarters to his earnings record worked afer retirement. Awarded retirement and medicare benefits.
February 28, 2007
Superior Court of Maine denies employer's request to assert counterclaim against employee in an unpaid wages suit. Hansen v. Wing, CV-06-683 (Feb. 15, 2007)
February 21, 2007
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