Last April a firestorm erupted when it was disclosed that Governor LePage had met privately at the Blaine House with hearing officers who decide whether unemployed Mainers are entitled to receive weekly benefits. According to news accounts, the Governor told the hearing officers that they were deciding too many cases in favor of employees. Afterwards, […]
Fine art may not be the first thing everyone thinks of when they’re enjoying Labor Day. But from Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, to the thousands of Depression-era WPA murals, to Maine’s own Judy Taylor’s Labor History Mural, artists and labor activists have long united to work toward common goals. This Friday, the Maine Irish […]
It’s amazing how fast the landscape has changed with regard to the rights of our fellow citizens in same sex relationships. Only 27 years ago, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court upheld a state law criminalizing sodomy. Some 10 years later, in 1996 President Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), […]
Interns have a way of making headlines. Most recently, the communications director for New York City mayoral candidate (and chronic sexter) Anthony Weiner lashed out (during a media interview of all places) at a former campaign intern, saying that she “sucked” at her job, threatening to sue her, and calling her a series of vulgar […]
A couple of weeks ago my partner Jeff Cohen taught an employer a very expensive lesson. A $500,000 lesson. That is the price Groton Construction Company, a small midcoast construction firm, is going to have to pay Skip White in civil damages as a result of likely misclassifying White as an independent contractor rather than […]
Yahoo!’s new female CEO, Marissa Mayer, has drawn harsh criticism with her announcement that Yahoo! employees no longer will be permitted to work from home. Critics have called her decision everything from an overreaction, to bad for business, to (most cuttingly) a betrayal of working women everywhere. In a leaked memo to Yahoo! staff on […]
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