This morning, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of some pretty smart people in the hospitality industry about Connecticut’s Paid Sick Leave law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2012. After all, with the movie Contagion as the nation’s number one movie, sickness is something on people’s minds.
(I’ve previously
Power is still out to big parts of the state, but here in Hartford, power is on and life continues. And so must the blog…
Back in June, when the Connecticut General Assembly approved of the paid sick leave bill, I was quick to note that the retaliation provisions in the bill seemed to apply
With all the legislative developments in Connecticut over the last year or so, it’s tough to keep track of all of the changes that your company needs to consider to update your employee handbook and employment policies.
Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of some of the changes to consider with a link to more information on each of them.
1) For your EEO policies, be sure to add “gender identity” as a protected category. You may also want to consider adding language that your company will not discriminate based on “any other protected category under state or federal law” to protect you.
Continue Reading The Seven Updates To Consider to Your Employee Handbook
Remember how I indicated that most of the paid sick leave bill covers only “service workers”? That’s true, but there is a big exception that hasn’t been mentioned much elsewhere.
Indeed, employers who have 50 or more employees should beware: The new Paid Sick Leave bill’s anti-retaliation provisions may cover all employees, not just the
The Connecticut Senate this evening voted 18-17 to pass the Paid Sick Leave bill, S.B. 913. The bill went through an amendment today which completely replaces the previously printed bill.
You can access the new (and passed) version here.
I’ll have full details of the measure in a followup post, but here’s the brief rundown.
The oft-debated paid sick leave bill has made another appearance at the legislature. And as in the past, it has been voted out of the committee, this time by a narrow vote of 6-5 on Thursday, March 3rd.
None of this ought to come as any surprise. It’s been voted out of committee for
Last week, I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Family Responsibilities Discrimination. Also on the panel was Dina Bakst, Co-President of A Better Balance. I asked Dina to sit down in an interview afterwards to follow on some of the issues we discussed.
Prior to co-founding a A Better Balance, she
There’s been plenty written about what the impact of the federal elections will be on national legislative efforts. While at an ABA Conference last week, various legislative initiatives concerning independent contractors and the Employee Free Choice Act were now seen as as DOA.
But in Connecticut, we elected the first Democrat as Governor in over two
On Friday, the Appropriations Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly — by a 28-13 vote — passed Senate Bill 63, this year’s version of the paid sick leave bill. The Capitol Watch blog has full details. The Labor Committee had previously approved the measure last month.
This is the third year in
So, here we are again.
Yesterday, by a 6-4 margin, the Labor & Public Employee’s Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly approved a bill (S.B. 63) that would mandate that employers with 50 or more employees provide five sick days to its workforce. The vote was largely along party lines.
Various blogs and media