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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 653H.P. 421House of Representatives, February 25, 2025
An Act to Allow Teachers to Qualify for Overtime Pay
Received by the Clerk of the House on February 20, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative ROEDER of Bangor. Page 1 - 132LR1691(01)
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2 as amended by PL 2009, c. 529, ยง2, is further
3 amended to read:
4 K. A salaried employee who works in a bona fide executive, administrative or
5 professional capacity and whose regular compensation, when converted to an annual
6 rate, exceeds 3000 times the State's minimum hourly wage or the annualized rate
7 established by the United States Department of Labor under the federal Fair Labor
8 Standards Act, whichever is higher, except for an employee whose primary duty
9 consists of work as a teacher in the activity of imparting knowledge if the individual is
10 both employed and engaged as a teacher; and
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12 This bill provides that an employee whose primary duty consists of work as a teacher
13 in the activity of imparting knowledge is not exempt from the laws governing minimum
14 wage and overtime.
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