People whose employers self-insure and those who get their health care coverage through Medicare won’t benefit from the law mandating coverage for hearing aids.
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New year brings raise for minimum-wage workers, in final phase of voter-approved plan
Maine’s minimum wage has risen from $7.50 to $12 an hour since voters approved the increases in 2016. Supporters say it has helped low-income workers, but critics say it has hurt small businesses.
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Minimum wage increase means overtime pay for more Maine workers
The rules taking effect Wednesday will raise the threshold – from $33,000 to $36,000 a year – at which salaried employees must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week.
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November jobless rate continues Maine’s historic trend
If December’s rate also comes in under 4%, Maine will have had four years of record low unemployment.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Invest in people and build Maine’s economy
The state’s new economic development plan rightly focuses on building the workforce.
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Symposium explores ways to close widening gap in Maine’s workforce
The state will have to add an estimated 158,000 trained people to its workforce by 2025 to maintain economic growth, Educate Maine tells participants at its annual symposium.
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Commentary: There’s no reason that workers can’t be corporate owners
Employee-controlled companies could be the antidote to the less-appealing aspects of shareholder capitalism.
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The View From Here: Behind USM’s name change plan
Attracting working-age people to the state is more important than soothing municipal rivalries.
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Our View: Proposed asylum rules are deliberately cruel
Denying people the ability to earn a living is the wrong way to treat those escaping persecution.
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Holiday campaign blitz aims to lure young professionals back home
Live and Work in Maine’s ‘Boomerang Weekend’ targets young Mainers who have left the state and may be visiting friends and family.