Big changes are on the way for employers in Connecticut that have been operating for close to a year under “Sector Rules” — mandatory practices that were set out by the state that businesses had to follow in order to reopen.
All that changes effective March 19th.
Late Friday, the state updated the website regarding
Yesterday, Governor Lamont announced a major series of rollbacks of COVID-19-related restrictions for businesses. We’re still getting all the details, but for employers, the key thing to understand first with all the rollbacks is that certain things are not being rolled back.
You read the Sector Rules for reopening offices in Connecticut.
If you read page 5, you’d come across one of the guiding principles for reopening:
As we start opening select businesses…we will open at our strictest controls. This will include…Those in high-risk groups (comorbidities) and over the age of 65 should continue to stay
Last night, Governor Lamont issued Executive Order 7PP which, for the most part, confirms what many of us have been expecting for the last week or so. As I’ve said before, the first round of reopening businesses remains on track for tomorrow (May 20th) but there have been more tweaks over the last day
Updated 10:15a, May 9, 2020
Late Friday afternoon, Governor Lamont announced that Phase I reopenings will occur as soon as May 20, 2020. These will include “non-essential” offices that had been closed, restaurants, retail stores and hair salons. Early on Saturday, we also got all the detailed rules that will need to be met to
Today (April 30th) was filled with more news for employers and, for the first time in a while, some of it was hopeful.
Governor Ned Lamont gave the broad outline of a plan to reopen the state (as I predicted early this morning) though the plan’s details depend on control of the pandemic.