HAYDEN-TIDD v. CLIFF HOUSE & MOTELS, INC.

Docket No. Yor-11-550.

52 A.3d 925 (2012)

2012 ME 111

Allison HAYDEN-TIDD v. The CLIFF HOUSE & MOTELS, INC., et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: September 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Belcher, Esq. , Maine State Employees Association, SEIU Local 1989, Augusta, Harold Lichten, Esq. , and Hillary Schwab, Esq. (orally), Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., Boston, MA, on the briefs, for appellant Allison Hayden-Tidd.

Robert W. Kline, Esq. (orally), Kline Law Offices, Portland, on the briefs, for appellees The Cliff House & Motels, Inc., and Kathryn M. Weare.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] This appeal involves the interpretation of Maine's minimum wage laws. We must determine whether a resort violated the requirement to pay its employees the minimum wage when it paid its wait staff a portion of the standard "service charge" that it added to its banquet customers' bills and treated that portion as a "tip" that satisfied the minimum wage law by qualifying the resort for a tip credit. ...

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