My colleagues at Shipman & Goodwin and I have published an expanded analysis on our CT School Law blog covering significant changes coming to Connecticut’s leave laws that will impact independent schools this fall. The post, “Connecticut Independent Schools Face Major Leave Law Changes This Fall,” provides essential guidance that every independent school
Recently, my colleague Julie Fay and I penned an article for the National Business Officers Association (which represents independent schools) for their national publication “Net Assets Now”. We focused on how schools can address free speech in the context of independent schools.
In the current political climate, independent schools face complex questions about free speech
Last week, I had the opportunity to present to the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, an accrediting agency serving over 90 schools and 30,000 students here in state.
The topic was one that doesn’t get enough attention at times and due to its applicability not to just to schools, but to all employers (public
The news this week is both positive and negative regarding the COVID-19 virus. The testing numbers on Tuesday in Connecticut were as bad as they’ve been since Spring 2020. If the virus isn’t everywhere, it sure feels that way.
But, on the vaccine front, the news is positive. We are moving this week to
You may have noticed that this blog has been a little quiet of late. Like a lot of people, I’m pretty sure that after four months of non-stop pandemic-related employment law work, I had reached a breaking point.
And so I took vacation last week. Of course, like a lot of you, we didn’t go
Within the last few days, the pace of new guidance from both the state and federal governments has slowed down just a bit.
Now, we seem to be preparing for the next ‘phase’ of this pandemic.
Whatever that looks like.
The state courts have been at a virtual standstill but we are starting to hear
With Twitter, I’ve been doing less “recap” posts of late. Why? For the simple reason that you can get all of the posts I’ve read of late on Twitter.
We didn’t have that when I started the blog nearly 8 years ago.
(Side note: It was eight years ago this week that I came up
Are you scared of social media yet?
That seems to be the approach of newly-m
inted legal "experts" telling employers to be on guard for employees who use social media with the added suggestion that you can (and perhaps should) fire anyone who says anything silly or mildly inappropriate on Facebook.
If only it