Credit: Andrey Popov/Adobe Stock State High Court Rejects Law Professor's Wage Dispute, Finding Fee Basis Is 'Far Exceeding' Minimum Wage, Salary Requirements
Based on his hours in the classroom, the adjunct professor earned $75 per hour for teaching the banking law course, and approximately $102 per hour for the second course—rates "far exceeding" Maine's minimum wage and salary-basis requirement in Section 663(3)K, the court determined.
January 26, 2024 at 06:45 PM
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Wage and Hour Litigation
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a trial court's judgment in favor of the University of Maine after a law professor claimed the school failed to timely pay him wages, but the state high court reached its conclusion on alternative grounds finding he was properly paid under a fee basis.
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