Back at the start of 2020, I declined to do my usual prognosticating for the year ahead.
That was probably wise given the events of the year.
Instead, I quoted a post I did ten years earlier:
For employers, there will always been the next case or new law that will need to be tracked
The timing for employers (which is basically any private business) to register with the state for the new Paid Family Medical Leave program couldn’t be worse or better, depending on your perspective. It started November 1, 2020 and continues to run.
In just six weeks, employers will be required to start withholding .5% of 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
Connecticut has pretty strict rules that employers must follow if they want to take deductions off of an employee’s salary. Typically, an employer must seek CTDOL approval for all sorts of deductions, which I covered back in a 2012 post.
But what happens if an employer makes a mistake on a paycheck and overpays an
Everyone knows that taxes are inevitable. Except perhaps one employee who won his Title VII case but complained that the employer shouldn’t have made withholdings for taxes when it paid out the judgment. The Second Circuit, in a decision released right before the Labor Day weekend, said the employer did the right thing.
You can
In a post last week, I pointed out that New York amended its laws to allow for some deductions by employers from an employee wages. I joked that Connecticut could do the same as some of Connecticut’s rules are a bit dated themselves.
A nice note from a Connecticut Department of Labor official suggested
As the dog days of summer drag on, the news from the employment law arena slows to a trickle. But here are a few recent stories that may be of interest to employers in Connecticut.
With all the snow piling up, there’s been a lot I’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t. So, it’s time to bring back the "Quick Hits" feature where I recap some of the employment law tidbits you might have missed recently.
When new laws get passed, the complications that arise from the passage aren’t immediately clear. But a look at Connecticut’s new family violence leave provisions (effective October 1, 2010) demonstrates how some of those complications are now making themselves apparent.
As you may recall, the new Family Violence Victim leave law permits employees to take
Continuing the summer series on the basics of various employment laws in Connecticut, one of the issues that employers have questions on is the withholding of
wages.
Connecticut’s rule — under Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-71e — states that employers may not withhold wages unless one of three exceptions apply: