Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Law360 about developments regarding “safe” leave laws.
As long-time readers of this blog now, Connecticut passed its family violence leave law back in 2010.
The law prohibits an employer from terminating, penalizing, threatening, or otherwise coercing an employee with respect to his or her employment because
This post is not going to discuss, in my view, the NFL’s inadequate response over the years to domestic violence incidents by players in the league. (If you want to listen to a full take down of the NFL, I recommend Slate’s The Gist podcast from yesterday.)
Rather, I want to talk today about how
One of the roles that I relish is being a member of the American Bar Assocation’s House of Delegates for several terms now. The ABA adopts certain policies at its Annual Meeting and uses its bully-pulpit to try
While I take a little time off this week for the Jewish holidays, my colleague Mick Lavelle fills in with this great post about the use of paid sick leave by employees who aren’t actually sick.
When can an employee receive sick leave pay even though the absence is not due to the employee’s own
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
Each year, the Connecticut General Assembly passes a number of laws. Rather than have them enacted immediately upon the governor’s signature, many of the bills become effective on October 1st of that respective year.
I followed several workplace bills earlier this year but most never made it very far. One bill did and it gives
Yesterday’s seminar on Wage & Hour Rx, sponsored by the CBIA, went very well and I thank all of the attendees for their great questions and comments. It made for a lively discussion about all things wage & hour.
What were some of the "hot topics"?
While the legislative session was a relatively quiet one, a few provisions found in a comprehensive domestic violence bill do have some direct implications for employers in Connecticut and create a new leave provision that will require some attention from human resources personnel. Many employers will be unaffected by the provisions, but those who
With some notable exceptions, only the bills that make it out of the Labor & Public Employee Committee have a chance for passage in the 2010 General Assembly session. (Of course, some measures get put in as amendments to other bills, but that’s still more of the exception than the rule).
So it’s worth taking