Employment Law Essentials and Advanced Strategies for Maine Schools
Live Zoom
Date: 04 / 30 / 2025
Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm
Presenter(s):
Peter C. Felmly, Elek A. Miller, Michael L. Buescher, Kathleen L. Wade, Blake E. McCartney
Description
About the program:
Please join Drummond Woodsum’s Elek Miller, Peter Felmly, Michael Buescher, Kathleen Wade, and Blake McCartney for a seminar addressing employment law essentials and advanced strategies for Maine schools. In this full-day seminar, we will review the most important employment law issues that anyone hiring, managing, and/or supervising employees should know. Attendees will leave this seminar with a refreshed understanding of essential employment law principles and new insights into strategies for addressing some of the most cutting-edge employment problems facing schools today.
Topics covered will include:- The hiring process;
- Individual employment contracts;
- “At-will” employment;
- Decisions not to re-employ a teacher, and continuing contract teacher non-renewal;
- Teacher dismissals;
- Reductions in Force;
- First Amendment Free Speech and Free Expression;
- Wage and Hour Issues;
- Leave;
- And more!