Maine
Maine employers should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, on the availability of unpaid break time and private locations for employees to express breast milk and to demonstrate their compliance with Maine's lactation accommodation law.
Maine employers seeking to explain how the handbook and supplement should be read together and that neither the handbook nor the supplement alter an employee's at-will status should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the test for employee state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax coverage and what constitutes SUI taxable wages in Maine. It covers topics such as the taxable wage base, contribution rates, experience rating methods, SUTA dumping prevention, voluntary contributions, joint or combined accounts, quarterly reporting requirements, penalties for late filing, benefit overpayments, multiple worksite reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Employers in Maine should consider providing the Maine Domestic Violence and the Workplace Poster.
Employers covered by the Maine Equal Pay Law should consider providing the Maine Equal Pay Poster.
Employers covered by the Maine Human Rights Act should consider providing the Maine Equal Employment Rights Poster.
As mandated by the Maine Department of Labor, all Maine employers must post the Maine Child Labor Poster.