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Making It Work: Paid Time Off

Name: Making It Work: Paid Time Off
Start: 2021-02-23T13:00:00+0000
Location: Online Webinar

When: February 23, 2021 at 1:00pm

People: Tawny L. Alvarez

Location:

Online Webinar

Join Verrill employment and labor attorney Tawny Alvarez and Cynthia Murphy, senior program director of Workforce Solutions at CEI, for Portland Press Herald's “Making It Work: Paid Time Off” online webinar. The panel will discuss Maine's new paid time off law and how to prepare for its impact.

For more information or to register, click here.

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