Being sick over the last week brought me a lot of unexpected “gifts”. Sure, there were the forced afternoon naps (oh, who’s kidding, even a morning nap too) . The watching of “The Price is Right” at least once (or was it twice?). The early start of a post-pandemic diet.
But also the “gift” of
Earlier today, my firm held a webinar featuring a conversation with Heidi Lane of the Connecticut Department of Labor to talk about the upcoming changes to the state FMLA law effective January 1, 2022. My thanks to Ms. Lane for participating and sharing her insights.
You can view the entire webinar here (and I’d encourage
Over the weekend, I was joking with a friend that we’ve seen more changes in employment law in the last 18 months than the last 18 years.
That’s an exaggeration of course. But it certainly does feel like there’s been a lot of changes. Sometimes it’s hard to catch up. So rather than a long
As I’ve hinted in some prior posts, my colleagues and I have been working on an all-new labor & employment webinar series for this fall. Today, I get to announce it.
This webinar series will feature in-depth legal insights and practical takeaways for human resource professionals as well as business stakeholders and decision makers on
The Connecticut Department of Labor has issued non-binding “guidance” on the state’s new “wage range” law. You can access it here.
The guidance is helpful in some ways but confusing in others. Importantly, employers should take the caveats noted in the guidance seriously; as it notes, this guidance “does not constitute legal advice”. Moreover, “if
As I continue a deeper dive into new Connecticut employment laws, Public Act 21-27 adds three new parameters for the existing requirement that an employer provide a lactation room or other location in the workplace for a mother to express her milk.
Previously, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-40w only required that such room or location
As I’ve been going over this week, employers have a lot of new obligations under Connecticut law.
This next one is pretty arcane. (In fact it was on line 12415 of page 408 of the budget implementer bill).
Here’s the new rule:
Effective December 1, 2021 (and annually through December 1, 2024), any
Yesterday I talked about a new law that will impact the hiring process. But there’s another new law that employers need to comply with starting October 1, 2021. This one, though, is simpler than some of the others. If you want to look at the law itself, it’s Public Act 21-69.
The law amends existing
While mandatory vaccination policies are all the rage now, there’s an important new Connecticut law that is a “must-do” for employers here and not much time left to get into compliance.
Effective October 1, 2021, employers are prohibited from failing or refusing to provide a job applicant with the “wage range” of the position for
With the Delta variant continuing to surge throughout the country, employers have begun to seriously consider mandatory vaccination policies. As I mentioned before, on September 9th, we presented a webinar on the topic.
But shortly after our webinar, the Biden Administration released a COVID-19 Action Plan which combines executive orders with forthcoming