The Connecticut General Assembly is in full swing. One of the bills to keep an eye on is a bill that would limit the use of criminal background checks on prospective state workers.
Specifically, House Bill 5207 would amend Conn. Gen. Stat. 46a-80 by prohibiting an employer from inquiring "about a prospective employee’s past convictions
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Credit Molly DiBianca at Delaware Employment Law Blog and Fitzpatrick on Employment Law for highlighting a little-known provision that was passed in the health care law. As summarized by Molly:
Section 4207, titled, Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Mothers amends the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Because it is born to the FLSA, its
The United State Department of Labor has begun issuing administrator interpretations, which are intended to provide guidance to employers and employees on various issues from time to time. They have not been used n the recent past, but a new one yesterday shows that this is changing.
Specifically, the DOL has released an interpretation
Ben P. is mayor of the Hartford Insurance Group. Craig W. is mayor of The Hartford Courant. Matt T. is major of RBS in Stamford.
Who’s mayor of your company?
By now, I expect the vast majority of you to be thinking: "Has this guy lost his mind? You can’t be mayor
Our webinar on employee misclassification and FLSA exemptions is set for noon today. There’s still time to register for this free webinar here (we hope to post the webinar audio later today).
If you can’t make it (or even if you can), the following is a link to the webinar materials. In the webinar, we will
This post continues my public service outreach on a program developed by the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
As I mentioned earlier this month, I am chairing what I expect will be a terrific educational program on April 9th at UConn Law School on how technology is changing the practice of law. Full details to this
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Kasten v. Saint Gobain Performance Plastics, 09-834 (opinion below from 7th Circuit here).
Various other employment law blogs and authors have already chimed in on the case, including Workplace Prof, Michael Fox, Ross Runkel, and the SCOTUSBlog so I won’t try to
Regardless of your political affiliation, you have to appreciate the magnitude of the moment.
Sweeping health care insurance legislation has passed Congress. (The Senate will still take up the "reconciliation" part of the bill which will make some additional modifications because the House only approved of the Senate version.)
So, now’s the
With the internet, we’ve grown accustomed to everything being on online.
But every once in a while there are still a few nuggets of useful information that are only available in print format. 
Once such document is a 30-page document entitled "Auto Dealership Addendum" published by the Wage & Workplace Standards Division of the Connecticut
Earlier this week, I noted that a key legislative committee had approved a bill that would increase penalties for misclassification of workers as independent contractors.
Yesterday, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal gave some more details to those changes in a press conference in announcing the recommendations of the Joint Enforcement Commission on Employee Misclassification
“A crackdown