Connecticut Employment Law Blog Insight on Labor & Employment Developments for Connecticut Businesses

Tag Archives: issues

What Baggage Does The Employment Attorney Carry?

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation

For employers, there are a lot of things within your control. You can control how to discipline an employee and when to take certain steps including termination. You can control how much severance you offer that employee and whether to offer severance at all.  But there is one thing that employers can’t control that can… Continue Reading

Connecticut General Assembly Sneak Peek for 2011

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Legislative Developments

The Office of Legislative Research has released their "OLR Major Issues" document, which is designed the identify and provide brief descriptions of important issues that the Connecticut General Assembly is likely to address in the upcoming legislative session. You can read the entire document here.  In the Labor and Employment area, the areas that the report… Continue Reading

EEOC Issues FAQs for Employees and Employers on Performance/Conduct Issues Under the ADA

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Discrimination & Harassment, Human Resources (HR) Compliance, Laws and Regulations

The EEOC today released a "comprehensive question-and-answer guide" (but not regulations)  addressing how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should be applied to a wide variety of performance and conduct issues. You can download the FAQs at their website here.  In a press release accompanying the document, the EEOC noted that it released the guide in response to questions from… Continue Reading

Words Matter: Being Specific In Sending an Issue to Labor Arbitration

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance, Laws and Regulations, Litigation

Suppose you, as an employer, have union-backed employees. The union files a grievance on behalf of three employees alleging that they did not receive "premium" pay on three holidays.  Because the dipsute cannot be resolved, the matter is sent to arbitration.  For some employers, defining the issue to be sent to arbitration may not seem… Continue Reading

Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Employment Law Issues?

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Laws and Regulations

With the Iowa caucuses tonight, and the Connecticut primaries just one month away, it’s a good time to start paying attention to what the elections of particular candidates would mean to various labor & employment laws. John Phillips, at The Word on Employment Law, has just saved all of us a lot of trouble by summarizing it… Continue Reading