Legal Opinion
Director of Bureau of Labor Standards v. Fort Halifax Packing Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 2, 1986PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Fort Halifax Packing Company (hereafter Halifax) appeals from a judgment rendered in the Superior Court, Kennebec County, granting severance pay in varying amounts to over 80 of its employees pursuant to 26 M.R.S.A. § 625-B (Pamph.1985). 1 On appeal Halifax claims that the Maine severance pay statute is preempted by both the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. (1985) (hereafter ERISA) and the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 158 (1985) (hereafter NLRA). Halifax also raises issues concerning the constitutionality of the…
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