Title 26, Title 26

1. Bureau to provide poster or notice. The bureau shall produce and furnish to employers posters or notices in printed form that state that an employee may be eligible for federal and state earned income tax credits and that the employee may apply for the tax credits on the emplo…

1. Poster. The bureau shall consult with the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services poster. 2. Details. The poster under this section must include, at a minimum, infor…

The director may furnish a written or printed list of interrogatories for the purpose of gathering such facts and statistics as are contemplated, to any person, or the proper officer of any corporation operating within the State, and may require full and complete answers thereto …

The director, and any authorized agent of the bureau, may enter any workplace as defined in section 1, provided by the State or by a state agency, county, municipal corporation, school district or other public corporation or political subdivision when the same are open or in oper…

A representative of the employer and an authorized employee representative must be given an opportunity to accompany the director or the director's authorized agent during the physical inspection of the workplace of an employer, subject to this section, for the purpose of aiding …

If, upon inspection, the director or any authorized agent of the bureau finds that an employer has violated a requirement of section 561‑A or any rule adopted pursuant to section 565, the director or the authorized agent of the bureau shall immediately issue a citation to the emp…

A person who, being duly summoned under section 43, willfully neglects or refuses to attend, or refuses to answer any question propounded to that person concerning the subject of an examination as provided in section 43, or a person who, being furnished by the director with a wri…

All state, county, city and town officers are directed to furnish the director, upon the director's request, statistical or other information contemplated by sections 42 to 45 in their possession as officers.

All reports to the Bureau of Labor Standards involving deaths, injuries and occupational diseases must be available to the injured employee and the employee's survivors or representatives upon written request and upon payment of reasonable cost for the copies.

A Superior Court in the county in which the imminent danger is alleged to exist shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of the director, to restrain any conditions or practices in any place of employment subject to section 45 which are such that a danger exists which will reasonab…

An employee or a representative of an employee of the State, a state agency, county, municipal corporation, school district or other public corporation or political subdivision who believes that a violation of an occupational safety or health standard exists that threatens physic…

1. Form; effect. Upon the failure of an employer to pay the amount assessed for unpaid wages or severance pay pursuant to chapters 7 and 15, the director may file in the registry of deeds of any county a certificate stating the name of the employer; the employer's address; the am…

In addition to any penalties provided in chapter 7, subchapters 1 to 4, the director may assess a fine against an employer, officer, agent or other person that violates any provision of chapter 7, subchapters 1 to 4 for each violation of those subchapters. The fine may not exceed…