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- 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
- 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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- Work release inmates cheated out of overtime pay
- Sexual Abuse Of Children
- Piece Worker Overtime Pay
- Failure To Include Bonus
News
- 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.
- 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)