Continuing my deeper dive this week into new laws from the General Assembly, today’s post tackles Public Act 21-69, which goes into effect October 1, 2021.
The law amends existing law by making it a discriminatory practice for an employer or an employer’s agent to request or require an applicant provide their:
As I continued my deep dive into all the new items of legislation, today will focus on an act that amends the law regarding training and statute of limitations for complaints .
Public Act 21-109 (Senate Bill No. 1023) makes some changes to the affirmative action law which I won’t cover here. But there are
If you’ve read this blog long enough, you know that certain workers are classified as “exempt” from the overtime requirements. The most well-known of these are the white-collar exemptions of executive, administrative and professional personnel.
But state law has several other categories of exemptions you may never have heard about such as a chief
A new website by Connecticut on cannabis use was announced by Governor Lamont’s administration over the weekend. Unfortunately, it contains an error regarding the cannabis use and the workplace; it highlights the mess that has been created by the General Assembly on the cannabis bill.
Here’s one example.
Over the weekend, the website began
This week, my colleague Sarah Westby and I published a detailed look at the new legal cannabis law in Connecticut and what it means for employers. I’m not going to duplicate the post here but strongly encourage you to read it.
One thing that didn’t make it in the post was strange provision found in
Lost amid the press regarding the new law legalizing cannabis use is the fact that the law also restricts smoking far more in the workplace and affords employers more flexibility as well.
The new law requires employers to to ban smoking and e-cigarette use in any area of the workplace (this will apply to tobacco
Earlier today, I appeared on Dennis House’s Sunday News Show, “This Week in Connecticut” on WTNH, to talk about the state’s new legal cannabis law and its implications for the workplace.
My thanks to Dennis for the invitation to bring this issues to employers and discuss how employers are going to need to adapt
If you’re calling the federal courts today (Friday), odds are you may not get someone. Yesterday, President Biden signed a bill making it law that Juneteenth (which is a Saturday) is now a federal holiday. The day commemorates the end of slavery in the United States when Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and
The General Assembly early today gave final approval to a bill that will legalize marijuana/cannabis use in Connecticut.
It is a massive shift and the bill legalizing it is massive too. (Heck, the summary of the bill is 184 pages!)
The bill creates a whole new set of rules for employers — most of which
If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know that the budget implementer bill in the state legislature always contains more than just budget items. It’s a “must-pass” bill that normally has items that, for one reason or another, didn’t pass during the regular session but that are important to various legislators.
It