Short post today: If you haven’t paid attention yet to the new state Paid Leave law, you’re out of time.
Here are three things to do right now:
You may recall that President Trump issued a memorandum earlier in August 2020 directing the Treasury Secretary to defer the withholding, despite and payment of the employee portion of social security tax for certain employees.
On Friday, the Secretary released a new notice on that point; however, as my colleagues explain in a new post
On Friday, I presented a program on “Paid FMLA: Does It Leave You Confused?” at my firm’s semi-annual Labor & Employment Law Seminar, along with my Shipman & Goodwin colleague Chris Neary.
Suffice to say that while the pun was well received, we had a number of attendees who left the seminar understanding that the
Three years ago, I floated the idea that perhaps an agency could come up with a modest “amnesty” program that would give employers a chance to get into compliance with FLSA laws, without facing the draconian consequences such an admission might entail.
Now, late yesterday, the United States Department of Labor announced its own pilot
It’s been a long-time coming but the General Assembly finally approved of a measure that would allow employers to pay employees on a bi-weekly basis without receiving prior CTDOL approval.
The provision, part of a set of “technical” revisions to various Department of Labor matters, is long overdue.
Several employers had moved to a bi-weekly
Payroll cards are finally here.
The General Assembly finished their regular session last night with several employment law bills getting passed, including some that have been kicking around for years.
One of them is Senate Bill 211, which authorizes employers to use payroll cards — instead of checks or direct deposit — to pay their
In a post last week, I pointed out that New York amended its laws to allow for some deductions by employers from an employee wages. I joked that Connecticut could do the same as some of Connecticut’s rules are a bit dated themselves.
A nice note from a Connecticut Department of Labor official suggested
The Connecticut General Assembly is in full swing which means the Labor & Public Employee committee is in hearing mode. Several bills have already gotten a hearing, and several more are scheduled for a hearing on February 24th. No bills have yet been voted out of the committee.
Finishing up the summer series of some of the basics of Connecticut employment law, I turn back to a wage & hour topic that comes up much more than you might think.
Connecticut’s wage payment laws (including Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-71b) are quite clear: Employees must be paid wages on a weekly basis. In
Remember a Connecticut appellate decision a few weeks ago that suggested that a bonus allegedly promised to an associate could be "wages" under Connecticut’s wage statutes? Indeed, a fellow Connecticut blogger suggested that 2008 was shaping to be a banner y
ear for employees.
Well, not so fast. A new Connecticut Supreme Court decision today