| Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 15: Rules |
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| Relating to Severance Pay, a Major Substantive Rule of the |
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| Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards |
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| | Sec. 1. Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of Chapter 15: Rules | Relating to Severance Pay, a provisionally adopted major | substantive rule of the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor | Standards that has been submitted to the Legislature for review | pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, | subchapter 2-A, is authorized only if the rule is modified as | follows: |
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| | Section II, subsection C is modified to add language providing | that, if the director's determination of a covered establishment's date | of termination or relocation is based primarily on the fact that the | covered establishment has on that date reduced its number of employees, | number of work hours or production to less than 50% of that of the same | time period one year earlier, as described in factors 3, 4 and 5 of | subsection A, the director's determination is a presumption that may be | overcome by evidence that the covered establishment's operations did not | substantially cease on that date. |
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