The Maine Human Rights Commission voted unanimously Monday against continuing investigations into complaints filed against Bath Iron Works by 14 employees. Monday’s votes supported recommendations from a commission investigator who found that there were no reasonable grounds to continue investigations in the 14 discrimination complaints. Two other cases in which the investigator found grounds to […]
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Maine Human Rights Commission to vote on BIW complaints
AUGUSTA, — The Maine Human Rights Commission will vote soon on complaints by Bath Iron Works employees who say they have been discriminated against based on their ages and disabilities. Commission Executive Director Amy Sneirson says most of the complaints are related to a practice negotiated by the union and the shipyard called “Return to […]
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Paul LePage’s unpublicized executive order violated public records law
AUGUSTA — The executive order issued by Gov. Paul LePage on April 20 to start an investigation into the Maine Human Rights Commission, but wasn’t released publicly until Tuesday, was withheld in apparent violation of Maine public records law. According to Maine Revised Statutes, all executive orders must be filed with the Legislative Council and […]
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Maine rights panel upholds state investigator’s findings against Jay restaurant
JAY — The Maine Human Rights Commission voted Monday to accept a state investigator’s recommendation that it facilitate an agreement between LaFleur’s Restaurant and a former employee. Investigator Michele Dion’s report found there were reasonable grounds to believe LaFleur’s discriminated against Maryellen Remington of Livermore Falls because of her sex after she revealed her pregnancy […]
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Commission rules former Paris restaurant discriminated against pregnant employee
AUGUSTA — The state panel on worker’s rights found reasonable grounds that a pregnant waitress at Shaner’s Family Restaurant was discriminated against when she was removed from the work schedule over a year ago. The Maine Human Rights Commission voted Monday that it had cause to believe Shaner’s Restaurant violated the rights of Paris resident […]
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State rights investigator finds reasonable grounds against Jay restaurant
JAY — An investigator for the Maine Human Rights Commission has found there are reasonable grounds to believe that LaFleur’s Restaurant discriminated against a former employee on the basis of her sex after she revealed her pregnancy and was fired. LaFleur’s has denied there was any discrimination. It asserts that it terminated the woman’s employment […]
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Maine rights panel denies LePage plea to reopen Moody’s Diner case
AUGUSTA — The Maine Human Rights Commission on Monday denied a request from Gov. Paul LePage to reconsider its ruling that Moody’s Diner, a destination restaurant in Waldoboro, discriminated against a former employee for religious reasons. The commission ruled in November 2014 that “reasonable grounds” exist to believe discrimination by Dan Beck, a co-owner of […]
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Maine human rights panel rules against woman in discrimination case about service Chihuahua
WINTHROP (AP) — The Maine Human Rights Commission said there are no grounds to believe a Farmingdale woman suffered housing discrimination when an apartment complex made her feel uncomfortable about her use of a service dog, a 3.6-pound Chihuahua. Fifty-one-year-old Laurie Randall accused S.J. Wood Construction, Scene Valley and Laurie Haefele, all of Winthrop, in […]
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Panel upholds investigator’s no discrimination in Franklin County firing of Jay corrections officer
AUGUSTA — The Maine Human Rights Commission voted 3-1 Monday to uphold an investigator’s “no cause finding” that there was no disability discrimination involved when Franklin County commissioners fired a corrections officer in 2012, commission case holder Cindy S. Rocque said. Human Rights commissioners Deborah Whitworth, John Norman and Sallie Chandler voted in favor, while […]
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Investigator finds no disability discrimination in Franklin County corrections officer’s firing
FARMINGTON — A staff investigator for a state human rights panel found that there was no disability discrimination involved when Franklin County commissioners fired a corrections officer from Jay in 2012. Investigator Angela Tizon’s report signed by Maine Human Rights Commission Executive Director Amy Sneirson recommends the commission issue findings that “there are no reasonable […]