Before the pandemic, I started a project called the “Employment Law Checklist”. The reasoning behind it was twofold — to talk about all the employment laws that employers in Connecticut had to face and to give me something to write about when employment law news was slow.
Then the pandemic hit (my last ELC
In two weeks, employers in Connecticut will have to deal with something new and I worry that many employers aren’t prepared for what is coming. It’s really a triple-whammy at the same time.
Item 1:
First, effective January 1, 2022, Connecticut’s Family and Medical Leave Act law gets expanded to almost all private employers. That
Editor’s Note: I am taking some time away from the office. In my absence, I thought I would revisit one of my older posts talking about….vacation.
Like many of you, I long for vacations. I like to plan them out in advance and then spend the intervening weeks and months plotting and scheming.
What restaurants
Over the weekend, I became one of an ever-growing club: The Fully Vaccinated. (A lucky extra dose at a pharmacy was my early miracle.)
By early May, there will many millions more.
What then?
I posted on Twitter over the weekend that being fully vaccinated right now is a strange world that is causing the
Conneticut’s Travel Advisory Quarantine has been among the most confusing of the orders to arise from the pandemic. No doubt that it was not intended to be that complicated.
But the last few weeks have had change after change made to the rules. And then came the announcement last week that Rhode Island was on
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
Is the pandemic over yet?
Obviously, the answer is no. While Connecticut’s numbers have diminished significantly, other states are continuing to spike.
Thus, yesterday, Governor Lamont issued new Executive Order No. 7BBB mandating that visitors from certain states with high numbers of cases to self-quarantine. My colleague Jarad Lucan and I have a full update
The United States Department of Labor recently updated its guidance on the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (FMLA+).
My colleagues at Shipman & Goodwin recapped the new guidance here.
One of the key takeaways from is that under the USDOL’s prior guidance and regulations, it
Wednesday was supposed to be the first day of vacation for me and my family in Florida.
Instead, I spent it at home helping clients run from one crisis to another.
It’s pretty amazing how quickly all of our lives have changed so dramatically.
Also amazing: Congress passed major legislation on leave related to COVID-19.
Today marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of the holiest days of the Jewish year.
But it’s a day of business to many.
What should employers be doing for employees, though, that are celebrating the day?
There are actually a few different ways to answer the question.
The first answer, looking just