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The Basics: Offer Letters of Employment in Connecticut

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance, Wage & Hour

Continuing the summer series of "basics" of various employment laws (see prior installments here, here and here), this week the topic is offer letters. Specifically, at the time of hiring an employee, does Connecticut require any documentation be provided to employees? The answer is yes.  Perhaps not in the form of an "offer letter" but… Continue Reading

Conversation About Length of Time Employee Expected to Manage Store Does Not Create Contract, Court Says

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance, Litigation, Wage & Hour

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… Continue Reading

Offer Letters and Employment Policies – It’s All in the Details

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

You know it’s summer when the most exciting headline in employment law over the last day seems to be the markup of an arbitration fairness bill by a House Judiciary Subcommittee.  Not terribly exciting.  If you’d like more details on that bill, Workplace Horizons has a nice little summary and does it’s typical terrific job on keeping up to… Continue Reading

Sign On Bonus, Accrued Vacation and COBRA Insurance are not “Wages”, Says Superior Court

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation, Wage & Hour

Connecticut’s wage payment statutes, with the definition of wages found at Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-71a(3), certainly have left courts room to interpret the statute. After all, the definition of wages is merely:  compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission or other basis… Continue Reading

Court Oks “Firing” a Not Yet Hired “Employee”

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation

"You’re hired. No wait, you’re fired." That’s essentially what happened in the case of Petitte v. DSL.net, a decision recently handed down by the Connecticut Appellate Court.  The Appeals Court rejected Mr. Petitte’s claims that the company should be estopped from firing him. The background is fairly straight-forward: Mr. Petitte applied for a position as… Continue Reading