Five years ago this week, on March 8, 2020, I wrote a fairly straightforward blog post on an FAQ for employers in Connecticut about COVID-19. I had been writing about it since January (and I’ll take credit for one of the first law blog posts about it too) but suddenly things seemed to
On a new episode of our From Lawyer to Empoyer podcast which just dropped wherever you listen to your podcasts, my colleague Emily McDonough Souza and I break down the key developments from the Trump Administration’s first 45 days and the key takeaways from the conversation.
Here are some key takeaways from the conversation:
It’s been a busy few weeks for some (many? most?) employers as well as the nation as the new Trump administration has taken over and issued a flood of new Executive Orders, funding freezes, and press statements.
It’s been hard to keep up and that seems to be the point. “Flood the Zone” as one
Among the flurry of Executive Orders issued by President Trump this week was one that may have direct implications for private employers — or at least attempts to.
The Order, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” is certainly unique in its nature.
It revokes an executive order that has been understood to be
I’ll admit that it can sometimes be hard to talk about the political ramifications that elections have on employers because some might think you’re taking sides.
Like everyone, I certainly have my own feelings but as I’ve said on this blog for over a decade, this blog has tried to take a decidedly apolitical bent.
With the recent focus on the new Paid Sick Leave law coming in a few weeks, it’s been easy to miss a few court cases that have come out recently that should be of interest to employers and their counsel.
One such case, O’Reggio v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, provides important guidance
Last year, I visited Vancouver and got to go to Granville Island Public Market — one of the great markets in North America.
Sure, I could talk about the wonderful food I got there, but there was something else that felt very unique and downright modern — their restroom.
The bathroom had a sign —
In a pair of closely watched decisions, the Connecticut Appellate Court recently affirmed the lower court’s judgments in two related cases, finding that the use of “recent college graduates” or “recent graduate” in job postings did not constitute age discrimination per se.
In the cases, (CHRO v. Travelers and CHRO v. Yale Universit
Long time readers of this blog know how geeky I can be when it comes to the annual report statistics released by the CHRO. Back in 2022, for example, I noted the continued decline in cases filed with the state agency that is responsible for investigating discrimination claims. (I also called myself a “stat nerd”
Does the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act (CFEPA) include claims of associational discrimination based on an employee’s association with a disabled individual?
That was the issue before the Connecticut Appellate Court in Demarco v. Charter Oak Temple Restoration Assn., Inc. decided yesterday.
The Court held that Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46a-60 (b) (1) of CFEPA