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
The news this week that Connecticut has given its approval to four medical marijuana growers in Simsbury, West Haven, Portland, and Watertown, inches the state that much closer to full implementation of the medical marijuana law that was passed in 2012.
The state also reported that over 1600 individuals in Connecticut have been certified by
Last week, I touched on a few aspects of the new Paid Sick Leave Guidance that was released by the Connecticut Department of Labor. (For prior posts, see here, here and here.) Today, I continue to discuss the guidance with a look at when service workers can start using accumulated paid sick leave.
Last week, the General Assembly approved of reduced penalties for people caught with relatively small amounts of marijuana in their possession. Notice the use in the title of the word “decriminalize”; that is a different term than “legalize”.
This raises the obvious question: Can employers
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
Another day, another story about an employee in hot water over Facebook posts.
It’s becoming so commonplace that I must admit a bit of Facebook Fatigue on the subject. I mean, how many stories do we need about an employee who says something that they think is private on Facebook only to later discover