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Just last month, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that a supervisor had violated the law by engaging in “unlawful surveillance of an employee’s online union activity, including an investigation of the employee’s Facebook page.” The case, called AdvancePierre Foods, Inc., sends a signal that the NLRB is looking to crack down on employerRead More
Historically, spousal support payments (a/k/a alimony) have been tax deductible for the payor and taxable income for the recipient. The Tax Cuts and Job Act (TCJA) passed by Congress changes all that for new divorces granted starting January 1, 2019. Starting in 2019, spousal support payments made under new divorce judgments will no longer beRead More
UP TO THE MINUTE UPDATE: New Employment Poster Required as of August 2nd! The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) has issued a new poster about human trafficking which you can find HERE. Employers are required to display this poster in the workplace as of August 2, 2018. While you’re downloading, printing and puttingRead More
ST&A Construction Law Bulletin: Construction contracts are often treated as annoying afterthoughts. At the outset of a project, all the players are on good terms, everyone knows — or they think they know — what is expected from each player, and spending a lot of time on the details of a written contract seemsRead More
On July 24, Maine’s highest court, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, ruled that certain facebook posts made by Richard Heffron III were not protected from prosecution by the First Amendment. He was convicted of violating a protection from abuse order as a result. He had been ordered to have no contact, direct or indirect, withRead More
The first step is to know what “stalking” is in Maine. In Maine, a Protection from Harassment Order is a civil means to get someone who is harassing you to stay away from you. 5 M.R.S. § 4651. You do not need to have a prior relationship with the person to qualify for protection. IfRead More
AUBURN, Maine – Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorney Amy Dieterich lectured at an Advanced Family Law Seminar in Portland, Maine on July 17, 2018, about effectively litigating issues of contempt in family law cases. These claims can be complex because they require a higher standard of proof, have limited discovery and require a litigant toRead More
Reasonable Accommodation for What?? Although there are many arguments supporting medical use of marijuana, the problem for employers is the impact on safety in the workplace and the risk of violating federal law, which still lists marijuana as illegal. So what happens when an employee with a disability comes to you and requests a “reasonableRead More
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that agency fee charges to public sector labor unions violate the Constitution. On a 5-4 vote, the justices overturned a 1977 Supreme Court precedent that had allowed the so-called agency fees or “fair share” fees that are collected from millions of non-union workers in lieu of union dues to fundRead More
You can’t protect what you don’t know you have. And if any of it’s on a computer, it could disappear or be taken before you know it if steps aren’t taken to protect it. So, in addition to the advice we provided in the article that just went out on cybersecurity, here is a sisterRead More
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