One of the reasons I’m working on this project is to highlight the mandates and requirements that employers in the state need to follow. Some can lead to possible litigation; some can lead to, well, something less.
Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 31-51jj is an example of the something less. The key language of the provision
Late Friday, the House passed the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act bill that passed the Senate earlier in May. Governor Lamont has indicated that he will sign the measure. As such, big changes are coming, though some of the biggest changes are are still a few years off.
You can review the bill here
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Continuing to recap various employment law bills out of the Connecticut General Assembly, the legislature passed a measure Wednesday night that brings Connecticut’s FMLA law more in line with the federal counterpart.
The federal FMLA was amended back in 2008 (prior post on the
Over the years in the employment law “blawgosphere” (isn’t there a better term by now?), I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with and conferring with several other attorneys who blog. One of those is Jeff Nowak, whose FMLA Insights blog has become a go-to place on all
Yesterday, I learned of the passing of a friend, Robert Gulomb, the beloved husband of Livia Barndollar – the former President of the Connecticut Bar Association, and a friend and mentor as well. Robert passed away peacefully after a long illness.
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. The SCOTUSBlog has done an admirable job with the recaps and if you want more information about that decision, you should really go there first.
But
George Clooney famously made business travel look (somewhat) cool in the movie, Up in the Air.
Clooney’s character was single (really, would you expect otherwise?) and business travel was a bit glamorous (though a bit tedious as well).
Perhaps not surprisingly, absent from the movie was a discussion of whether business travel could be the
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to the Fairfield County Bar Association on the burgeoning field of Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD, for short). It is also known at times as Caregiver Discrimination.
In essence, it is a cross-disciplinary practice that 
looks as various statutes like Title VII, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, FMLA, ADA and
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