My colleague, Chris Engler, is back today with post getting into the ins and outs of the willful misconduct standard at the Connecticut Department of Labor. Last week, we had a senior CTDOL official speak to our Labor & Employment seminar about this and other pressing topics of interest to employers.
The bottom line:
Back from a long holiday weekend, my colleague Chris Parkin this morning takes a look at a new Connecticut Appellate Court case about employee compensation.
A new case that will be officially released tomorrow reminds employers to take care with their words and promises when it comes to employee compensation.
The facts of the case
So, remember back in February where I noted that employers ought to “consider having an attorney review some of your [employment] agreements … [because sometimes,] poor drafting can sometimes be avoided by having an attorney involved”?
We have another appellate court case that emphasizes that point quiet well in Stratford v. Winterbottom.
The
One day, your human resources manager comes to you. She tells you that an employee lost his commercial driver’s license because he was caught — off the job — driving drunk.
The driver’s license is a requirement for the employee’s job. Can you fire the employee? Under virtually all circumstances, sure.
But then the employee
While the blog takes a few days off, my colleague Mick Lavelle has this update on a notable Connecticut case.
Accidents and injuries are unfortunately a fact of life in the workplace, especially on industrial or construction sites. But there are rarely any personal injury lawsuits by employees against their employers.
That is because long ago, workers
If you should never judge a book by its cover, you can never judge a legislative bill from its title.
After all, you would think that a bill about "Penalties for Violations of Certain Personnel Files Statutes" (H.B. 6185) would actually be a bill about thos
e violations.
While that may have been in the
Earlier this evening, the U.S. Senate — after hours of debate on various amendments this afternoon — passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 by a vote of 61-36. Both Connecticut senators, Dodd and Lieberman, voted in favor of the measure. You can read the full text of the bill here.