As the number of reported cases of the Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continue to rise, travelers are on high alert. The World Health Organization (the WHO) has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
Starting next year, the minimum salary requirement for employees classified as salaried exempt under the executive and administrative white collar minimum wage and overtime exemptions will be $684.00 per week, or $35,568 per year.
On September 18, 2019, Maine’s new law limiting an employers’ use of non-compete agreements will take effect. The law prohibits employers from entering into new non-compete agreements with employees in the state earning at or below 400% of the federal poverty level (400% of the federal poverty level is currently $49,960).
We are pleased to announce that Peter Bennett has been elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of The National Judicial College (NJC), the nation’s oldest and largest institution of judicial education.
The Bennett Law Firm is pleased to announce that Rick Finberg was selected as Best Lawyers® 2019 Litigation – Labor and Employment “Lawyer of the Year” in Portland, Maine.
One of the country’s pre-eminent attorneys representing management in labor and employment law issues, Peter Bennett of The Bennett Law Firm of Portland, Maine, has been elected chair of the Board of Trustees of The National Judicial College (NJC), the nation’s oldest and largest institution of judicial education.
Most states have some type of reporting pay law so that when an employer schedules an employee to work, the employee is guaranteed some minimum amount of work or pay.