§623. Exemptions

This section and sections 621-A 621-B and 622 do not apply to family members and salaried employees as defined in section 663, subsection 3, paragraphs J and K. Sections 621-A and 622 do not apply to an employee of a cooperative corporation or association if the employee is a stockholder of the corporation or association, unless the employee requests the association or corporation to pay that employee in accordance with section 621-A weekly. Except as provided in section 621-A 621-B, subsections 3 and 4, a corporation, contractor, person or partnership may not by a special contract with an employee or by any other means exempt itself from this section and sections 621-A 621-B and 622. When the terms of employment include provisions for paid vacations, vacation pay on cessation of employment has the same status as wages earned.

Sec. 5. 26 MRSA §626-A, first ¶, as amended by PL 1999, c. 465, §5, is further amended to read:

Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections 621-A 621-B to 623 or section 626, 628, 629 or 629-B is subject to a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each violation.

Sec. 6. 26 MRSA §626-A, 3rd ¶, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 465, §5, is repealed.

Sec. 7. 26 MRSA §626-C is enacted to read:

§626-C.__Collective bargaining exceptions

An employer is not considered to have violated section 626 when, pursuant to a written and signed agreement made as a result of collective bargaining by representatives of employees, unpaid wages are paid within a different time period or a setoff or counterclaim is set up and when the contract or agreement specifies the length of the time period or the precise nature of the setoff or counterclaim, respectively.

SUMMARY

This bill requires that certain employees be paid on a weekly basis.