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How to Navigate Maine’s New Earned Paid Leave Rules: LIVE Q&A Webinar with Verrill

Name: How to Navigate Maine’s New Earned Paid Leave Rules: LIVE Q&A Webinar with Verrill
Start: 2020-10-15T10:00:00+0000
Location: Online Webinar

When: October 15, 2020 at 10:00am – 11:00am

People: Benjamin E. Ford, Tawny L. Alvarez

Location:

Online Webinar

Please join the Portland Regional Chamber and employment and labor attorneys Benjamin Ford and Tawny Alvarez for a webinar on Maine’s new earned paid leave laws, effective January 2021. As a business owner, you will learn what actions to take now before the January deadline.

Ben and Tawny will provide an overview of the latest earn paid leave rules, offer guidance to employers’ most pressing concerns, and address live questions from the virtual audience.

A brief Q&A will follow the session.

Play a recording of the event online here.

For more information, visit the Chamber's event page here.

Firm Highlights

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