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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Workers at Whole Foods Market are striking back against a lawsuit filed by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce to overturn a voter-approved minimum wage-ordinance that would grant hazard pay to essential workers in the city during the pandemic. On Thursday, attorneys representing Caleb Horton and Mario Roberge-Reyes, two workers at Whole Foods in Portland, filed a motion to…
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Attorneys Carol Garvan, David Webbert, Max Brooks, and Valerie Wicks represented five longtime workers in a class-action lawsuit against FMC Corp. FMC sold the plant on the Rockland waterfront in November 2017 to DowDuPont. The property is currently listed under Dupont Nutrition U.S.A., Inc. Workers claim they did not receive their accrued vacation time for…
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Phillip E. Johnson, David G. Webbert, Jeffrey N. Young, and Carol J. Garvan have been selected to the 2020 Maine Super Lawyers (®) list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Additionally, Valerie Z. Wicks has…
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a sweeping decision finding that IBM’s highest leaders engaged in systematic age discrimination when terminating thousands of older workers and gave false excuses to cover up what they were doing. … The agency’s decision “will put great pressure on IBM to compensate workers it wrongly ousted in…
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