While I take a little time off this week for the Jewish holidays, my colleague Mick Lavelle fills in with this great post about the use of paid sick leave by employees who aren’t actually sick.
When can an employee receive sick leave pay even though the absence is not due to the employee’s own
Following up on her post last week recapping part of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on labor laws, Guest Poster Rita Trivedi is back with highlights from administrative law and employment law portions of the presentation.
Again, my sincere thanks to her for this insightful post. I hope you all find it as interesting as I do.
In my last guest post, I highlighted some of the labor law developments discussed at the Connecticut Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on June 11. But administrative and employment law was certainly not neglected: attendees heard from representatives at the state Department of Labor and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, giving practitioners a peek into issues to watch in the coming months. Highlights below….
The state FMLA should be an active topic in the coming year:
So, four months in, how is Connecticut Paid Sick Leave (PSL) working out? Well, for towns, not so well as this recent article pointed out.
But as Connecticut employers start running through the issues, some novel and unforseen issues keep popping up. I’ll address
It’s finally here: Paid Sick Leave.
Connecticut officially became the first state in the nation to mandate this on Sunday. Depending on your perspective, it’s either a historic achievement or another sign that Connecticut is anti-business.
I’ve talked about this extensively over the last six months so I’m not going to repeat the summaries here.