The dust is still settling from the mad dash that is the end of the Connecticut General Assembly session.
I’ll have more in the upcoming days as events warrant, but here’s a quick look at a few items that I’ve been tracking in recent weeks.
Since the publication of my post last week on House Bill 6667 on free speech in the workplace, there’s been a lot of followup press coverage. Two that I would highlight include this Patch.com article, and this blog post by Mara Lee at the Hartford Courant.
The CBIA also highlighted the post on
The Connecticut General Assembly’s Labor & Public Employee Committee today is considering drafting a proposed bill “to prevent current or potential employers from requesting or requiring that employees or potential employees provide passwords to their personal accounts as a condition of their employment.”
I won’t mince words. Proposed Senate Bill 159 is a
The Connecticut General Assembly is back at work so it’s time to take a quick peek to see what’s percolating.
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association highlighted the “captive audience” bill as bill that is resurfacing, even though the Attorney General has previously raised doubts about
Several years ago, Connecticut passed a law that, for the first time, required employers to take special precautions to protect the personal data of their employees.
For a refresher, you can see my prior posts here and here.
Now, there is news of some tweaks to the law with some implications for employers
As the legislative session winds down, there’s one big issue still alive that has been passing mostly under the radar of the mainstream press. (To the CBIA’s credit, they’ve been tracking this bill for a while.)
Under current law, an employee has the right to inspect and receive a copy of his or her personnel
The General Assembly is always full of surprises. It’s the busy season for the Connecticut legislature and a number of employment-law related proposals are still “alive”.
(I use “alive” in the generic sense because the bills have merely passed committee; whether they will end up getting voted on is an entirely different question. For further
And all of a sudden, things just got very busy at the Connecticut General Assembly.
On Tuesday, several labor & employment law bills are up for discussion and debate at a public hearing scheduled at 2 p.m. (details here). One of the bills is the newest hot topic — the House version of the
Two bills were introduced in the Connecticut legislature last week that would ban discrimination against individuals who are unemployed. Section 8 of Senate Bill 1 and Senate Bill 79 are identical in their provisions. They would apply to nearly all employers in the state.
The proposals would amend Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 46a-60(a)(6) to prohibit
The new legislative session at the Connecticut General Assemblybegan last week and the Labor & Public Employee Committee wasted no time setting an agenda for bills for discussion in this short legislative session.
At a committee meeting last Thursday, the Committee discussed a variety of