Attorneys & Counselors at Law
According to the complaint filed in Cumberland Superior Court, Mark Opio, who is Black, worked for Whole Foods in Portland for more than eight years altogether, from 2007 until 2015, and then again from Dec. 2018 through Oct. 2019, which a Whole Foods Market spokesperson confirms. Opio says he was scheduled to interview for a…
Community Surgical Supply Sued for Revoking Job Offer to Woman Who Asked About Breastfeeding Accommodations Maine Human Rights Commission Found Sex Discrimination and Retaliation by CSS Portland, Maine. This morning, Siera L. Boucher filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal district court against CSS for sex discrimination and unlawful retaliation because she asked about…
Northern Light Health paid a Bangor psychologist less than 60 percent of what her male colleagues made while she was working at Acadia Hospital, but it was not because of her sex, the hospital system said this week in a court filing. The court filing came in response to a lawsuit Clare Mundell, who is…
A judge on Monday sided with JWG lawyers representing low-wage Whole Foods workers and rejected a bid by the Chamber of Commerce to invalidate a Portland voter referendum that requires employers to provide hazard pay to low-wage essential workers during the pandemic. Justice Thomas Warren ruled that the emergency minimum-wage provision passed by voters is…
A lawsuit challenging the legality of a voter referendum that requires employers to pay Portland workers more during states of emergency is expected to reach the courts on Wednesday. … Attorneys representing two Portland Whole Foods workers intervening in the suit called the Chamber of Commerce’s legal challenge “shockingly anti-democratic.” They argue that under state law, Portland does…
Attorney David Webbert had the privilege of being interviewed by attorney Derry Rundlett on his monthly legal TV show earlier this month. They discussed LGBTQ rights and the insurrection at the Capitol of the US. Watch the full interview here.
On Monday, January 11, 2021, attorneys for two Whole Foods workers filed an opposition to a motion by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce to permanently invalidate the emergency hazard pay provision overwhelmingly approved by Portland voters. The Chamber’s motion not only seeks to throw out the hazard pay provision, but also challenges the validity…
A Bangor psychologist and member of the Bangor School Committee has sued Northern Light Health, alleging that she was paid about half of what her male colleagues were paid while working at Acadia Hospital. … “When Dr. Mundell reported this glaring pay disparity to management, instead of apologizing and taking immediate corrective action, they refused…
Randi Kirshbaum, a DJ and manager at WPOR and WCLZ radio in Portland for 38 years, has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against her former employer. Kirshbaum, 66, was fired in May for refusing to return to the office on her doctor’s recommendation…
Labor attorneys and business leaders are urging Portland employers to consult with their lawyers before deciding how much to pay their employees next month, saying that the city’s decision not to enforce a hazard pay requirement until 2022 could expose them to lawsuits. .. Shelby Leighton, an attorney with Johnson Webbert & Young who specializes…