Maine Code § 17-401

Violations; penalty
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1. Preventing employment. An employer, employee or other person, by threats of injury,
intimidation or force, alone or in combination with others, may not prevent a person from entering into,
continuing in or leaving the employment of any person, firm or corporation.
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]
2. Maintaining blacklist. An employer, agent of an employer or other person, alone or in
combination with others, may not attempt to prevent a wage earner in any industry from obtaining
employment at that wage earner's trade by maintaining or being a party to the maintaining of a blacklist.
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]
3. Penalty. A person who violates this section commits a Class D crime. Violation of this section
is a strict liability crime as defined in Title 17-A, section 34, subsection 4-A.
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]

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