The Connecticut Labor & Public Employees Committee is now scheduled to hold a hearing on various labor bills of relevance and importance to employers in Connecticut. Some are re-hashes of bills raised last year, but others, including amendments to the state’s FMLA laws are new.  The hearing is scheduled for February 5, at 2 p.m.

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Sometimes, by coincidence, two unrelated decision get released in close proximity to one another that they bring some greater clarity to the law.

Yesterday, I discussed a Connecticut Superior Court cacourtesy morgue file - NOT public domainse that found that certain discussions did not create an employment contract and that the employee was properly classified as "at-will".

Earlier

Suppose you, as a hiring manager, have a discussion with one of your current employees about a job opening within the company at another location. In the course of that discussion, you indicate that you would expect that employee to work in that position for two years before moving on to other possible opportunities. 

After that conversation, you put

As Tropical Storm Fay continues to pound Florida this week, I was recently reminded that it’s been 23 years since Connecticut suffered a direct hit from a Hurricane — the infamous Hurricane Gloria

No worries then for Connecticut, right? Wrong. Connecticut has been hit by several tropical storms since then — just like Fay —