Last year, I visited Vancouver and got to go to Granville Island Public Market — one of the great markets in North America.
Sure, I could talk about the wonderful food I got there, but there was something else that felt very unique and downright modern — their restroom.
The bathroom had a sign —
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
I still remain amazed at the sold-out crowd we had at last week’s Labor & Employment Law seminar. Well over 250 people registered for the program and I kind of wanted to whisper to people: “You know this is just a LEGAL seminar, right?”
But no matter. Employment law issues are as popular as ever
Last fall, I raised the issue of bathroom access for employees that corresponds with their gender identity.
The issue, however, that seems to get the most press is restroom access.
Indeed, we’re now getting federal guidance on how to deal with the issue of restroom access. That remains one of the bigger issues (a proposition
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking before the Connecticut Bar Association’s LGBT Section regarding the status of transgender claims along with CHRO Staff Attorney Alix Simonetti. My thanks to the section for the invitation. It didn’t hurt that it was held at the Hartford Flavor Company, either.
The talk was mainly informal but
Jon Hyman, who runs the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog, dropped a couple of posts last week on employee’s rights to, um, use the bathroom.
He started with a post on the right to a workplace bathroom and related breaks, and followed it up on whether employees have a right to be paid during
A bill which would allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to private employee restrooms in retail establishments was reported out of the Legislative Commissioner’s Office and approved by various committees on Tuesday.
House Bill 6328 (download here) states that "Any retail establishment that has a restroom for employee use, which typically does not