2025 Labor Law Updates

These are unofficial documents that may contain errors. See the Maine Session Law (when available) for a final version.

• LD 55 Accrual of Earned Paid Leave – effective September 24, 2025: Allows employees to carry over unused Earned Paid Leave to the next year and to accrue the statutory minimum or employer provided amount of EPL, whichever is higher, the next year.
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• LD 66 Expanded Access to the Maine Wage Assurance Fund – effective September 24, 2025: Allows workers to receive up to 4 weeks of wages and liquidated damages from the Wage Assurance Fund when the employer has no assets to use to pay the worker the full wages and damages they are entitled to.
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• LD 589 Establishing a Minimum Wage for Agricultural Workers – effective September 24, 2025: Provides a minimum wage of $15.10/hour (with annual cost of living adjustments) for workers employed to perform agricultural labor, beginning January 1, 2026.
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• LD 598 Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work – effective September 24, 2025: Requires employers to make a good faith effort to notify workers of a cancelled or shortened shift, or to pay the lesser of 2 hours wages or the remainder of the shift if alternative work cannot be assigned, with limited exceptions for events the employer cannot control.
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