Short post today: If you haven’t paid attention yet to the new state Paid Leave law, you’re out of time.
Here are three things to do right now:
Back in October, I provided a preliminary assessment of what a COVID-19 vaccine might mean for employers. But as I noted back then, the EEOC’s guidance was not yet updated.
Now, the EEOC has finally provided an update of sorts for employers.
In doing so, the new guidance makes plain what many of us suspected
Thanksgiving is now in the rear view mirror. Just a month to go until we turn the page to 2021.
But before that happens, there are a few things left to check off your to do list for 2020.
Let’s get to it.
The timing for employers (which is basically any private business) to register with the state for the new Paid Family Medical Leave program couldn’t be worse or better, depending on your perspective. It started November 1, 2020 and continues to run.
In just six weeks, employers will be required to start withholding .5% of a
At his press conference on Monday afternoon, Governor Lamont previewed a new set of changes to the Sector Rules that businesses have been operating under. These changes rollback some of the openings under Phase 3, and Lamont has called this new version “Phase 2.1”.
We’re still awaiting all the details this week; the changes are
It’s supposed to snow Friday here in Connecticut.
In October.
For those of us with memories, we all remember the last time we got substantial snowfall in October in 2011. It ended with lots of power outages and many downed trees. So let’s first hope the snow is just more nuisance than anything else.
Far
Election Day is nearly upon us.
But unlike prior years, many Connecticut residents have already voted, thanks to the pandemic-related absentee ballot system uage.
Still, next Tuesday, our fellow citizens will still take to the polls from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. to vote for their favorite candidate. You can find out where you should
We are still several months away from a vaccine for COVID-19, and probably still even further away from one that will be readily available to the general population.
But I’ve already heard grumblings from employers wondering — can I compel employees to get a vaccine when one is available for the coronavirus?
It’s a
Amid the craziness that is 2020, employers need to be preparing for the rollout of the paid family and medical leave insurance program. Certain aspects of the program become effective in just a few short months — January 1, 2021.
To that end, my firm is hosting the first of several webinars this month on
Late last week, Governor Lamont announced plans to move into the long-awaited plan to reopening businesses in Phase 3.
The exact timing is still to be worked out but the target date is October 8, 2020.
Phase 3 will ease some of the capacity limits but we’re still awaiting details in specific sector rules that