If April Showers bring May…Oh never mind. In Connecticut, April might as well mean that the General Assembly is getting serious about the bills under consideration. All the proposals that make headlines in February mean nothing until committees start to vote on the bills and the bills start getting the spotlight on them.
Usually by
On “Survivor”, one of my favorite broadcast TV shows (or, as my YouTube/Netflix watching teens might say — “what’s that?”) the notion of “immunity” plays a central role in the outcome of an episode.
And in a decision released last week by the Connecticut Supreme Court, whether or not to grant immunity again plays a
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning in Janus v. AFSCME (download here) reversed 40 years of labor law precedent and concluded that requiring public employees to pay “agency fees” for labor unions that they don’t want to belong to violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Previously, prior cases have banned forcing public sector
Ten years ago today, I wrote about the then-Tenth Anniversary of one of the horrible events that made a lasting impact on Connecticut employers.
I recounted the Connecticut Lottery shootings that happened a decade earlier.
Today, marks 20 years. (The CT Mirror has another perspective here.)
The New York Times report of that event is
By now, you may have read about yesterday’s decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Title VII bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Connecticut is in that federal circuit (along with New York and Vermont). You can download the decision in Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., here. (You’ve been warned though
The 2018 session of the General Assembly started last week and increasing workplace training is a top priority for passage.
Indeed, it is not surprising that we’re starting to see the first proposed legislation to address the number of harassment claims that have been making headlines the last six months.
Governor’s Bill 5043 sets up
Summer feels really far away right now. It’s just been brutally cold here in the Northeast.
(How cold? Too cold for skiing. That’s brutal by any stretch.)
But summer WILL eventually come. So we’re told.
So the news late Friday that the U.S. Department of Labor was scrapping the test it had released just
“Joe, in response to all this NFL stuff, we want you to display U.S. flags at your workstation.”
“No.”
“Well, then you’re fired.”
Don’t think that can happen? Then you haven’t heard about the Cotto v. United Technologies Corp. case — a long-forgotten Connecticut Supreme Court case from 20 years ago that has particular
So, a couple of months back, I talked about how separation agreements for small employers might not be covered by the federal law that covers such agreements.
After all, since the Age Discrimination in Employment Act only applied to employers that have 20 or more employees, the requirements for a “knowing and voluntary waiver”
Update: As noted below, the redesigned blog should be up at some point Tuesday, perhaps late – a new post will follow thereafter. If it’s Tuesday and you’re seeing this blog post and the old design first, it’s coming later in the day. Promise.
Every good superhero story needs an origin story. I’m not a