Maine Minimum Wage Changes

April 8th, 2007 Posted by Mark

Here is one of the newest developments in the Maine minimum wage law, news that just took place this past week. So listen up, you Maine employers out there! The new law clarifies the type of wages employers must pay so called domestic workers. The bill was signed into law by Gov. John Baldacci just two Thursday ago, so it is the law of the land now.

What it does is make it so that domestic employees must be classified as either working individually, or working for a company. If they are working on their own—say, like a maid or a babysitter working for you at your home—then they are still not required to be paid the minimum wage or overtime, according to the new law.

However, if these domestic workers work for a domestic worker service company, an employer that has many domestic employees on their pay roll and is in charge of sending out these domestic employees to their many clients, then they are not exempt from the state’s minimum wage and overtime laws. The bill was introduced by Rep. Ann Haskell, a Democrat from the city of Portland, Maine.

The bill is currently making its way through the Department of Labor in the state, which according to my sources, has no issue with the new way of doing things. The Department will make sure to start enforcing this new law, so if you happen to be an employer running a domestic employee service, I would suggest you check your payment rate to your employees to see if you follow this new minimum wage law in Maine.

Other employers out there in Maine, the same minimum wage that you have been paying since this past October, when the state minimum wage went up from $6.50 per hour to $6.75 per hour.

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