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Labor committee hears LD 598 to guarantee minimum pay when workers called in are sent home
Summary
LD 598 would require employers meeting size and calendar-day thresholds to pay at least two hours when an employee reports to work and is sent home early; sponsors and worker advocates urged passage and the Department of Labor said enforcement would likely require at least one additional staff position.
Senator Mike Tipping introduced LD 598, an act to require minimum pay for reporting to work, explaining the measure would guarantee that an employee who reports to work and is sent home early or has hours reduced receives at least two hours of pay or the amount the employee would have earned for the scheduled shift, whichever is lesser. The sponsor said the bill addresses ‘‘just-in-time’’ scheduling practices used by some employers that rely on last-minute changes to staffing.
Dylan Murray, legislative liaison for the Maine Department of Labor, testified the department neither supports nor opposes the bill but described the bill’s scope and enforcement implications. Murray said the bill would apply to employers with 10 or more employees who operate more than 120 days per…
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