Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
I suppose that’s the advice parents should be giving to their kids nowadays but it holds true in employment law too.
Take this sample severance agreement that shows up as number one on Google’s search for “severance agreements”.
It’s a terrible agreement.
Yes, it’s simple but it
Continuing my deeper dive this week into new laws from the General Assembly, today’s post tackles Public Act 21-69, which goes into effect October 1, 2021.
The law amends existing law by making it a discriminatory practice for an employer or an employer’s agent to request or require an applicant provide their:
You read the Sector Rules for reopening offices in Connecticut.
If you read page 5, you’d come across one of the guiding principles for reopening:
As we start opening select businesses…we will open at our strictest controls. This will include…Those in high-risk groups (comorbidities) and over the age of 65 should continue to stay
Lately, I’ve been talking with more employers about permanent reductions in force.
It’s not fun.
And it’s not something I thought we’d be talking about 3 months ago, and yet it’s not foreign to me either.
In fact, I spent several of my earliest posts here on this exact topic.
As I talk with employers
“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs”.
Sounds like a plan for reopening businesses in Connecticut next week, right?
Well, that quote is from Bruce Willis’s character in one of my favorite movies, Die Hard. It might also be in peril if you are the same age as Bruce Willis
Yesterday, I tackled the bills floating around the Senate-side of the Connecticut General Assembly, In today’s post, let’s look at the House side to see what bills are under consideration there:
Earlier this week, I made my long-awaited (ok, long-awaited by ME) return on WNPR’s ever-popular “Where We Live” show.
As always, I’m thankful for the invite.
My appearances date back quite some time (remember pizza and child labor in 2010?), so it was nice to be back in the studio to talk about age discrimination
So, a couple of months back, I talked about how separation agreements for small employers might not be covered by the federal law that covers such agreements.
After all, since the Age Discrimination in Employment Act only applied to employers that have 20 or more employees, the requirements for a “knowing and voluntary waiver”
Up on Fortune magazine’s column “Practically Speaking” is the following question:
Frank has been with us for more than 20 years. He works in the warehouse and has done a good job for us. I like him. But, to be honest, for the work he performs I could easily replace him someone younger and …
With Twitter, I’ve been doing less “recap” posts of late. Why? For the simple reason that you can get all of the posts I’ve read of late on Twitter.
We didn’t have that when I started the blog nearly 8 years ago.
(Side note: It was eight years ago this week that I came up