Labor Law Requirements

• Workers’ Compensation (Required)
• Regulation of Employment (Required)
• Child Labor Laws (Required)
• Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (Required)
• Minimum Wage (Required)
• Employment Security Act (Unemployment Compensation) (Required)
• Video Display Terminal Law (Required)
• Sexual Harassment (Required)
• Equal Employment Rights (Recommended)

• Family and Medical Leave (Required)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
• USERRA (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
• Polygraph Protection Test (Required)
• NLRA (Required)

Recent Changes

Child Labor Law - Minimum Wage - September 2011

• Child Labor Law - The hours that minors 16 and under can work have been extended. Minors may now work up to 6 hours on a school day, instead of 4, and up to 24 hours in a week, formerly 20. Eliminated was an allowance of extra hours in the event of unexpected school closures. 16 and 17 year olds are now able to work until 10:15 pm on the night before a school day, formerly 10:00 pm.
The phone number for the Federal Department of Labor Wage and Hour Office was also updated.
• Minimum Wage - The notice now states that tipped employees may be required to share tips. The Federal Department of Labor Wage and Hour Office was updated on the Minimum Wage notice as well.

Workers Compensation - September 2010

The Workers Compensation notice has been updated. They have added a new paragraph to the "Notice to Employees" section.
This was a Substantive change

Spanish Poster - August 2010

We are now offering the Maine AIO in Spanish.

Regulation of Employment - September 2009

Maine has added a section entitled Severance Pay. The new section states that businesses that have 100 or more employees at a single location may have to provide severance pay to employees if that business location closes or has a mass layoff. They have also added nursing mothers under the section for Rest Breaks. Nursing mothers must be provided with unpaid break time or be permitted to use their paid break or meal time to express milk. The employer must make reasonable efforts to provide a clean room or location, other than a bathroom, where the milk can be expressed.
This was a Substantive change

Minimum Wage - April 2009

Non-substantive change: Removed the outdated 2007 information.

Regulation of Employment - January 2009

Under the “Family Medical Leave” section, serious illness or death of a sibling who shares joint living and financial arrangements with the worker has been added as a fifth bullet to the qualifications for leave of absence. The phone number to obtain further information regarding the Federal medical leave has also changed.
This was a Substantive change