After releasing the reopening guidelines for businesses earlier this week, the state has updated its website to include a new online certification that employers must complete before reopening the physical workplace.
You can find the reopening certification here.
As the website indicates:
Business [sic] must self-certify and commit to comply with the Sector Rules
“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs”.
Sounds like a plan for reopening businesses in Connecticut next week, right?
Well, that quote is from Bruce Willis’s character in one of my favorite movies, Die Hard. It might also be in peril if you are the same age as Bruce Willis
Employers that have been receiving loans under the Paycheck Protection Program from the CARES Act have a lot to think about to make sure that the loan is forgiven.
One key aspect is that the borrower/employer must spend 75 percent of the loan proceeds on payroll.
That becomes challenging when employees have been furloughed or
Today (April 30th) was filled with more news for employers and, for the first time in a while, some of it was hopeful.
Governor Ned Lamont gave the broad outline of a plan to reopen the state (as I predicted early this morning) though the plan’s details depend on control of the pandemic.
We are still “a few weeks” away from the time when Connecticut starts to relax the “Stay Safe. Stay Home” requirements. (Officially, the rules are set to expire on May 20, 2020 and Governor Lamont has indicated that some businesses will reopen then.) But, beyond the recommendations of the Reopen Connecticut Advisory Board, which
The United States Department of Labor recently updated its guidance on the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (FMLA+).
My colleagues at Shipman & Goodwin recapped the new guidance here.
One of the key takeaways from is that under the USDOL’s prior guidance and regulations, it
The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities recently announced that it will, upon request, extend the deadline for employers to provide sexual harassment prevention training by 90 days for new employees.
The deadline to complete such training is six months after their start date, absent an extension.
But employers should beware; the announcement has three
Governor Lamont late Friday issued new Executive Order 7BB, making it mandatory that everyone wear a mask or cloth face-covering in any public place where he or she is unable to maintain a safe social distance of at least six feet.
The EO goes into effect on Monday, April 20th at 8 p.m. and
Yesterday, my colleague Peter Murphy and I set out to write a summary of one of Connecticut’s quiet success stories during this pandemic — the Shared Work program from the Connecticut Department of Labor.
You can find the entire article here.
What is this little program that has served an outsized role the last few
Within the last few days, the pace of new guidance from both the state and federal governments has slowed down just a bit.
Now, we seem to be preparing for the next ‘phase’ of this pandemic.
Whatever that looks like.
The state courts have been at a virtual standstill but we are starting to hear