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Labor & EmploymentPublic Schools – Sick And Safe Leave – StatutoryConstruction – Whether Daily SubstituteTeachers Are Excluded From Earning Sick AndSafe Leave Under The Maryland Healthy WorkingFamilies Act

Maryland Attorney General Reports · Dec 27, 2018

As an initial matter, the Act defines “employee” to exclude workers (1) who qualify as independent contractors under LE § 8-205, (2) who serve as real- estate brokers paid by commission under LE § 9-222, (3) who are under … If the statutory language, read in context, “is unambiguous and clearly consistent with the statute’s apparent purpose,” the inquiry will “ordinarily” end, “and we apply the statute as written, without resort to other rules

Maryland Attorney General Opinion 110OAG82

Maryland Attorney General Reports · Oct 6, 2025

Att’y An individual with a qualifying conviction becomes entitled to expungement after a specified waiting period. The waiting period usually begins upon completion of the sentence. … But the enactment of the Expungement Law “obviated” any “common law right of expungement” and established the “primary remedial mechanism” in the area. Reid v. State, 239 Md. App. 1, 15 (2018).