Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said that paid family and medical leave policies like the one currently being considered by Maine lawmakers would, in addition to giving workers the time to take care of themselves and their families when they need to, provide an overall benefit to the state’s economy. Stiglitz spoke at a virtual…
Governor Paul LePage recently claimed that Portland’s tip credit is illegal under federal law and stated that the city would have to pay employers back. His administration’s argument seems to be that because Federal law allows for a tip credit of $5.12 and Portland allows for $6.35, it is pre-empted. It should come as no…
When my grandmother, Frances Perkins, was invited by FDR to be his Secretary of Labor after he was elected president in 1932, she was not at all sure that taking on the job was a good idea. She had established a comfortable life for herself and her family in New York City. She had a…