Last week, we held our annual labor & employment seminar before a full house (!) at Hotel Marcel in New Haven. In my intro, I made an off-the-cuff joke about how we were thankful for those in attendance as we know that they had their AI Chatbots they could always ask.
It got laughs, but
We are nearly sold out for our fall in person Labor & Employment Seminar scheduled for this Thursday at Hotel Marcel in New Haven.
The afternoon program has everything an employer needs to know including sessions on the accommodations, recent court decisions, and a plethora of new Connecticut laws that went into effect this month.
October 1 may not seem like a big day, but for employers, today’s the day that a bunch of new employment laws become effective.
None of this should be a surprise if you’ve followed this blog; I’ve reported on all the developments over the last several months. But if this has still caught you off
There’s this “old” (relative term) song that has a earworm of a chorus – I always feel like somebody’s watchin’ me And I have no privacy like somebody’s watchin’ me Tell me, is it just a dream? Who’s playing tricks on me?
Perhaps the General Assembly heard that song too while considering, and then passing Public
Writing about 9/11 from an employment law angle seems a bit out of place. Back in 2008, it seemed easier to write about building evacuation drills on my blog, than something more meaningful.
In part, it was probably because for many years, it just uncomfortable thinking about the scale of the law. Despite numerous visits
Can it really be nineteen years?
I did the math twice, just to be sure. And yes, it was September 2007 when I clicked “Publish” on my first Welcome post and launched this little experiment called the Connecticut Employment Law Blog.
(Technically, the actual anniversary was Saturday, September 6th, but I wasn’t about to make
I recently had the pleasure of joining the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Podcast for a conversation about one of the most important — and fastest-moving — topics in our field right now: artificial intelligence in the workplace.
The episode, titled “AI Tools and Labor Law: Legal Guardrails and Looming Minefields,” is hosted
I have often said that getting summary judgment in an employment discrimination case in Connecticut state court is hard.
State judges are typically reluctant to grant such motions, and the conventional wisdom among practitioners is that it takes extraordinary facts to get there.
Which is what makes a recent decision worth noting. The court granted
I’ve been writing this blog long enough that, let’s just say, that retirement is closer than it was when I started. Heck, I’ve even had friends retire early recently.
But here’s a question that I sometimes hear: is an employer’s reference to retirement enough to satisfy a claim of age discrimination?
Not always but maybe
Connecticut’s 2026 legislative session produced one of the most ambitious workforce packages the state has seen in recent years. Several new laws take effect on October 1, 2026, and employers need to be preparing now.
In the latest episode of From Lawyer to Employer, I sat down with my colleague Sarah Niemiroski to walk