Labor & Employment

ME Specific

4.12

Maine Human Resource Law 2025

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
SHRM CP/SCP Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 55 minutes
Anne-Marie Storey
Erik Peters
Justin Clark
Latha Srinivasan
With Anne-Marie L. Storey from Bernstein Shur + 3 others
Recorded November 18, 2025
Product ID 99882

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Overview

A Timely Update You Can't Afford to Miss!

Are you up to speed on the latest human resource law changes in your state? This up-to-the-minute online seminar provides you with best practices for navigating problems in the virtual workplace, drafting and updating policies, hiring and firing workers, and much more. Stay up to date on new rules and regulations - register today!

  • Find out what's happening in wage and hour law.
  • Gain insights on how to address current concerns surrounding hybrid and remote working.
  • Determine what updates you need to make to your handbook this year.
  • Come away with best practices for investigating complaints.
  • Hear the latest guidance on hiring and firing employees.
  • Discover tips for handling new leave and accommodation issues.
  • Analyze emerging issues and solutions regarding social media and the workplace.
  • Learn the dos and don'ts of addressing drug and alcohol use.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Wage and Hour Updates
  2. Hybrid and Remote Work: Current Issues and Answers
  3. Drafting Employee Handbooks and Policies
  4. Social Media and the Workplace: Balancing Employer Needs and Employee Rights
  5. Hiring and Firing: Legal Dos and Don'ts for Crucial HR Functions
  6. Leave and Accommodation Considerations
  7. Investigating Employee Complaints: Your Guide

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Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
SHRM CP/SCP Approved 6 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Wage and Hour Updates

    1. Primary Duties Test: Recognizing the Top Pitfalls
    2. Salary Test Legal Essentials
    3. Independent Contractors: Updates and Current Issues
    4. Off-The-Clock Work and Unauthorized Overtime
    5. Addressing Employer Errors: Essential Safe Harbor Policies to Have
    6. Wage and Hour Litigation and Case Law Update

  2. Hybrid and Remote Work: Current Issues and Answers

  3. Drafting Employee Handbooks and Policies

    1. Handbook Scope: How Much Is Too Much?
    2. What Topics You Must Include (With Example Language)
    3. Avoiding Implied Contractual Relationships
    4. Critical Updates to Make to Employee Handbooks (With Checklist)
    5. Top 5 Handbook Policy Mistakes to Avoid

  4. Social Media and the Workplace: Balancing Employer Needs and Employee Rights

    1. Social Media and NLRA Violations for Non-Union Employers
    2. To What Extent May Employers Monitor and Limit Social Media Use?
    3. Using Private Social Media Accounts for Business Purposes
    4. The Latest Guidance on Using Social Media in Hiring Decisions
    5. Best Practices for Creating and Updating Social Media Policies
    6. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Workplace: What You Need to Know NOW

  5. Hiring and Firing: Legal Dos and Don'ts for Crucial HR Functions

    1. Crafting Legally Compliant Job Descriptions: What You Must Know
    2. Offer Letters, Background/Credit Checks, and Other Essential At-Hire Documents: Best Practices and Current Developments
    3. How Enforceable Are Non-Compete, Non-Solicit, and Confidentiality Agreements?
    4. Salary Transparency Laws: Recent Developments
    5. Legally Defensible Disciplinary and Termination Documentation (Including Performance Improvement Plans)
    6. Separation Agreements and Severance Packages
    7. What You Need to Know About Handling Whistleblower Allegations

  6. Leave and Accommodation Considerations

    1. Notable Developments in State Leave and Accommodation Laws
    2. Interactions With State Workers' Compensation Laws
    3. Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation
    4. Best Practices for Drafting and Revising Leave and Accommodation Policies
    5. Undue Hardship - The Latest Developments
    6. Terminating Employees on Leave: Current Guidance and Best Practices

  7. Investigating Employee Complaints: Your Guide

Who Should Attend

This intermediate level online seminar on human resource law is of benefit to:

  • Attorneys
  • HR Professionals
  • Accountants
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Anne-Marie L Storey
Anne-Marie L.
Storey
Bernstein Shur
Erik Peters
Erik
Peters
Verrill Dana LLP
Justin S Clark
Justin S.
Clark
Murray Plumb & Murray
Latha M Srinivasan
Latha M.
Srinivasan
The Lincoln Electric Company
Speaker bio
Anne-Marie L Storey

Anne-Marie L. Storey

Bernstein Shur
Anne-Marie Storey

is a Senior Counsel with Bernstein Shur, where she practices employment law, including general advising of employers, litigation, administrative actions, training, and workers' compensation. Ms. Storey is the chair of the firm's employment practice group. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers for five consecutive years in the practice areas of employment and workers' compensation. Ms. Storey is a past-president of the Maine State Bar Association's Board of Governors; member of the John Waldo Ballou Inn of Court; and former member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Board of Overseers of the Bar. She earned her B.A. degree from Middlebury College and her J.D. degree from Vermont Law School.

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Erik Peters

Erik Peters

Verrill Dana LLP
Erik Peters

is a partner in Verrill Dana LLP's Labor and Employment group. He regularly conducts workplace investigations, advises clients on employment law and human resources compliance issues, and defends companies accused of discrimination or harassment based upon disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, whistleblower retaliation, and wage and hour violations. Additionally, Mr. Peters has successfully represented many individuals who were the victims of discrimination. A significant part of his practice involves conducting workplace investigations. In conjunction with this, Mr. Peters has successfully completed the Association of Workplace Investigators' Training Institute, which teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to perform impartial workplace investigations. He also regularly conducts anti-harassment training for his management side clients and for other attorneys.

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Justin S Clark

Justin S. Clark

Murray Plumb & Murray
Justin Clark

is of counsel with Murray Plumb & Murray's employment law and litigation groups, focusing on representing employees and small businesses. For over a decade, he has advocated for clients in complex matters involving employment discrimination, retaliation, unpaid wages, tips, and commissions, as well as severance agreements. Mr. Clark has served as class counsel in numerous class actions and advises small businesses on employment law compliance and wage and hour issues, guiding them through investigations, hearings, and litigation before government agencies. Prior to joining Murray Plumb & Murray, he worked for twelve years at a boutique employment law firm in New York and interned with the Attorneys General of Maine and New Hampshire. Mr. Clark has successfully negotiated numerous settlements and severance agreements and has tried ten cases, securing jury verdicts of $900,000 and $1.295 million. He is admitted to practice in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, multiple federal district courts, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Clark earned his B.A. degree from Colby College in 2009 and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2012.

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Latha M Srinivasan

Latha M. Srinivasan

The Lincoln Electric Company
Latha Srinivasan

is with The Lincoln Electric Company. She has been a licensed attorney in the state of Ohio for more than 25 years, and has worked in the areas of labor and employment law, business and civil litigation, EEO and HR compliance, and workplace diversity and inclusion management and implementation. She has presented numerous seminar topics on labor and employment law and HR compliance. She also regularly speaks on lactation laws in the workplace. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (CMBA) and earned her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester and her J.D. degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she was awarded the Paul J. Hergenroeder Award in trial tactics. Ms. Srinivasan is mock trial coach.

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