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Areas of Practice- Overtime — Enforcing the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act for all workers.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Legal Summary: Overtime Pay (Federal): Private Sector
- Legal Summary: Overtime Pay (Federal): Public Sector
- Case Studies
- Unpaid Wages — Making sure employers follow State laws that protect your pay.
- Employment Law — Fighting to protect employees in the workplace
- Retirement — Guaranteeing your rights under the Maine Retirement System
- Environmental — Protecting your property from environmental pollution.
- Personal Injuries and Accidents — Battling insurance companies for accidents and defective products
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Case Studies
- Work release inmates cheated out of overtime pay
- Sexual Abuse Of Children
- Piece Worker Overtime Pay
- Failure To Include Bonus
News
- The Fontaine Law Office has begun a group action against Poland Springs Water owned by Nestle. Poland Springs will not pay its delivery drivers overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours per week. Nine drivers have brought a group action to collect 6 years of back pay, totalling $500,000. The cases are pending in both state and federal court.
- 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.
- 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.
- NEA Higher Education Conference - PowerPoint presentation
- Maine retired teacher wins Social Security hearing adding four quarters to his earnings record worked afer retirement. Awarded retirement and medicare benefits.
- 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)