Next week, one of my colleagues, Peter Murphy will be at the Connecticut Bar Association to present a program entitled “CHRO 101 – From Complaint to Public Hearing”.   Full details are available at the CBA website.

The program includes a discussion of

  • The Complaint Process, MAR (Merit Assessment Review), and Mandatory Mediation,
  • Responding to the

As I’ve noted before, the appellate courts in Connecticut release their decisions in advance of an "official" publication date for various reasons. I’ve now read over the Appellate Court’s upcoming decision in Paylan v. St. Mary’s Hospital Corp. a few times  trying to discern the big lesson for employers to take from this employment

Attorneys can go months — if not years — without Supreme Court guidance on employment law issues. But today, the Supreme Court issued its second employment-law related decision in as many days.

However, for the second day in a row, the Supreme Court issued a decision that, at the end of the day, isn’t really about

Last week, lots of virtual ink was spilled on the U.S. Supreme Court’s arguments in Federal Express v. Holowecki which has been labeled as a noteworthy age discrimination claim, following in the shoes of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ledbetter in the spring.  Several blogs have good summaries of what happened, including: LawMemo