This is the second in a series of posts on the new Paid Sick Leave Guidance from the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Back in June, I discussed who is a “service worker” under the new Paid Sick Leave law. It is a detailed list that includes butchers and bakers but not candlestick makers.
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Senate Bill 913, as amended, contains one of the longest and wordiest definitions you’ll see in employment law. What is it for? It defines who is a “service worker” and thus potentially covered if the employee is also hourly and non-exempt under federal (not state) law. (Day and temporary workers are also excluded.).
According to the bill, it means “an employee primarily engaged in an occupation with one of the following broad or detailed occupation code numbers and titles, as defined by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classification system or any successor system”
They are as follows (I have removed the code numbers for ease of reading, but they can be found in the bill itself if necessary):
