The Connecticut Appellate Court issued a ruling that employers need to understand when dealing with pregnant employees. The case, Long v. Town of Putnam, reversed summary judgment for the employer and remanded the case to trial.
According to the court’s opinion, Cassie Long was hired as Assistant Finance Director in June 2019. On her
Late Monday, several reports on Twitter indicated that the Department of Labor would be announcing and releasing the final version of the revisions to the white-collar overtime regulations. You can see my prior posts on the subject here and here.
This has been a long time
Over the last few days, Twitter has been a-twittering with buzz that the Department of Labor has sent the final overtime rules to the OMB.
This is the equivalent of one department sending another one an e-mail with the new rules. Why? Because it’s just
Suppose an employee files a complaint against your company and it’s quickly dealt with. Now suppose, ten months later, that you, the employer, fire that employee — ostensibly for financial reasons. Is the timing between the original complaint and the termination enough to support a claim for retaliation?
Previous federal court cases in Connecticut have