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Employees Or Independent Contractors: A Call For Revision Of Maine's Unemployment Compensation "Abc Test", Christopher J. Cotnoir Apr 2018

Employees Or Independent Contractors: A Call For Revision Of Maine's Unemployment Compensation "Abc Test", Christopher J. Cotnoir

Maine Law Review

The Maine Employment Security Law governs whether one person performing services for another is an independent contractor or an employee for unemployment tax purposes. It requires many employers to pay unemployment taxes on individuals who, under the usual common law rules governing the employer-employee relationship, are independent contractors. This result, caused partly by the structure of the statute and partly by judicial interpretation, has the effect of discouraging business expansion, limiting entrepreneurial opportunities, and ultimately, hampering statewide economic development. This Comment first provides the historical background of unemployment compensation legislation at the federal and state levels. Employer liability and employee/independent …


Challenging The Employment-At-Will Doctrine Through Modern Contract Theory, Clare Tully Jan 1983

Challenging The Employment-At-Will Doctrine Through Modern Contract Theory, Clare Tully

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note advocates an implied contract analysis that both satisfies contractual requirements and protects the reasonable expectations of employees and employers. Part I describes the various reliance interests that employees bring to their jobs, the employer inducements that cause this reliance, and the business benefits that accrue when employees rely upon these inducements. Part II examines in detail judicial reluctance to enforce either these reliance interests or employer promises as contract rights under the at-will doctrine. Part II also urges the increased use of modern contract theories such as promissory estoppel, quasi-contract, and implied contract to protect employee reliance interests …


Constitutional Law - Contract Clause - Minnesota's Pension Plan Act Violates Contract Clause, Craig R. Shagin Jan 1979

Constitutional Law - Contract Clause - Minnesota's Pension Plan Act Violates Contract Clause, Craig R. Shagin

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Examination Of Section 8(F) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Missy Walrath Jan 1979

An Examination Of Section 8(F) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Missy Walrath

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.