The former parks and recreation director of Saco has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. Joseph Hirsch worked for the city for 25 years, including 13 as the department head. His complaint, filed Tuesday in York County Superior Court, says the city abruptly forced him to retire in October 2017 without giving him any notice…
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A Deer Isle nursing home is requiring employees to not disparage the home if they want retention bonuses ahead of a planned late-October closure and rejected strategies from the state on ways to stay open. The Island Nursing Home was the first of three facilities to announce they would be closing by the end of…
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A female corrections officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the state that says she and other women have experienced “severe and pervasive” sexual harassment and discrimination during their work in Maine prisons. Autumn Dinsmore, 26, now works at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren. She first filed a complaint to the Maine Human Rights…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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