From the Labor Department file
What is on record for Spear Farms Inc.
- Name on the record
- Spear Farms Inc.
- Location on the record
- Nobleboro, Maine
- County
- Lincoln County
- Industry
- Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming; Vegetable and Melon Farming
- Cases
- 2 closed, 2 with a violation found
- Back wages agreed to pay
- $14,437
- Workers due back wages
- 21
- Civil money penalties assessed
- $3,948
- Violations recorded
- 36
- First and latest case
- 2007 to 2018
- Repeat or willful flags
- None on the record
Every investigation
Every case on the record, newest first
| Investigation | Laws | Violations | Back wages | Workers | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 to May 2018 | FLSA, H-2A, MSPA, overtime | 22 | $8,495 | 8 | $3,948 |
| September 2005 to September 2007 | FLSA, H-2A | 14 | $5,942 | 13 | $0 |
Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.
By law
Laws involved and what each case found
- H-2A agricultural visa program: 2 cases, $13,181 in back wages, $3,215 in penalties
- Fair Labor Standards Act: 2 cases, $1,256 in back wages
- FLSA overtime: 1 case, $1,256 in back wages
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: 1 case, $0 in back wages, $733 in penalties
Plain words
What this record means and what it does not
The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 2 on this record, 2 ended with a violation found.
Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Maine has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.
Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.
This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.
If you are owed wages
Where to file a wage claim in Maine
In Maine a wage claim can go to the state: MDOL: Wage and Hour Complaint Portal takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.
Around this employer
Nearby employers and related pages
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Sources
Where this record comes from
The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.
Disclaimer. The wage and hour information here is for general information only. It comes from the Labor Department's closed case file as the Department publishes it, which can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and a case on this record is not a court judgment and not an admission by the employer. Check with the Wage and Hour Division before you rely on it. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.