One of the things I love to do is play golf. It’s mentally challenging, (somewhat) physically demanding, and you always strive for perfection.
That said, one of the things that I’m not very good at is golf itself. Sure, I’m better than some but as someone once joked to me: You can be good golfer
Earlier this morning (Friday, May 17th), the state Senate approved of a measure that will increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2023.
House Bill 5004 (as amended) can be downloaded here.
The bill had previously passed the House and now moves to the Governor’s office where he is expected to sign
If you ever read the state labor laws (wait, you haven’t?), you sometimes come across provisions that seem like they were written for another generation.
And indeed, they were.
Take, for example, Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-23. It prohibits children under the age of 16 from working in the “manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or theatrical industry”.
So, employers are probably tired of hearing me say that there’s always something to update in your employee handbook.
But if employers can do it, why can’t the legislature get its act together and clean up our existing laws to the ones that are relevant — or at least update them.
Instead, we get
Welcome to the party, Connecticut.
For years, I’ve highlighted outdated employment laws and regulations in Connecticut that should be written off the books. As I’ve noted time and again (and again), it’s very easy for laws to get put on the books. But it’s very hard for them to get taken off.
Now
For many kids (including my own), today marks the first day back to school. While that may seem like “child labor” to them, that term obviously means something different.
What some employers fail to realize is that the start of school also means the start of limits to on what high school students can do
Two parents have recently sued the Connecticut Department of Labor, asking the court rule that the child labor protection laws should not apply to situations such as theirs where they want their own kids to work in the family pizza place. 
The Connecticut Law Tribune has a good recap of the matter thus far.
As I mentioned earlier this week, I was up for a minor local election yesterday — and lost. Not a huge surprise since I was running against some popular incumbents and I belong to a party that had not won a Town Council seat in over 37 years. But the Town finally elected another
A recent article by the Connecticut Law Tribune reported on the trial of two bar workers who claimed that they were terminated in retaliation for reporting a supervisor’s alleged sexual harassment of a waitress. According to court records In the trial of Daniel Van Kruiningen and Kimberly Chatterton v. Plan B, LLC d/b/a Mohegan