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Maryland Minimum Wage Is Set To Rise To $15.00 Per Hour On January 1, 2024

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
12/16/2023
Maryland Law, Wage & Hour
Get ready to pay your employees more!  On January 1, 2024, minimum wage in Maryland is set to increase to $15.00 per hour for all employers.  This is a fairly substantial increase as it is effectively two years of increases at once.  The 2023 minimum wage rate for large employers (15 or more employees) is $13.25 per hour and for small employers it is $12.80 per hour. This is the last of four years of gradual increases that began in 2019.  The...
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WHISTLE BLOWERS ON THE VERGE OF TERMINATION BEAR A HEAVY BURDEN

Peter Saucier
Peter Saucier
09/01/2023
Maryland Law, Whistleblowers
A Radiation Therapist in the Oncology treatment operation at Mercy Hospital violated rules requiring that she obtain signed patient waivers at the same time that her overall performance was unsatisfactory.  Supervising physicians and co-workers cataloged a number of the Therapist’s short-fallings.  A key supervising physician described to investigators at Mercy incidents of “poor job performance and altercations with co-workers.”  Romeka v....
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Recreational Cannabis - What's An Employer To Do?

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
07/26/2023
Maryland Law, Medical/Legal Marijuana
On July 1, 2023, recreational cannabis (marijuana) became legal in Maryland for persons 21 years and older.  While employers have been navigating this territory with medical marijuana for some time now, here are some tips for employers who now have to contend with recreational use in the mix.   Under the new Maryland law (2022 MD H.B. 1), individuals 21 and older may use marijuana while off duty.  They may not report to work under the influence...
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Time To Care Act Is Still Coming, But It Is Delayed

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
05/09/2023
Maryland Law, Paid Leave, Time To Care Act
As we previously reported, last spring Maryland passed the Time to Care Act (“TTCA”).  Under the TTCA, Maryland joined a growing number of states that will offer a government administered paid family leave program to employees in the state.  The new program’s benefits and requirements were detailed back in April 2022. Originally the TTCA was set to go into effect beginning October 1, 2023, once the state issued regulations by June 1,...
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