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• Position: STATE LINE - Maine's overtime law - Brief article

As State Legislatures reported in September last year, three Maine truck drivers sued their employer for unpaid overtime wages. State overtime-pay rules, they observed, did not apply to the "canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of" foods. But was the law exempting those who, like the drivers, distribute food or those who pack it for shipping and distribution? A comma (an Oxford...