Earlier this week, I noted that a key legislative committee had approved a bill that would increase penalties for misclassification of workers as independent contractors.
Yesterday, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal gave some more details to those changes in a press conference in announcing the recommendations of the Joint Enforcement Commission on Employee Misclassification
“A crackdown
The big news this week on all the blogs has been about the Supreme Court’s acceptance of a case that will potentially look at employee privacy rights in text messages for public employers. I believe it’s impact is going to be quite limited to public employers with little or no impact on private employers so I’ll
Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows of my love of the New York Yankees. So much so that a few months back I did an entire employment law post on Derek Jeter’s contract. 
He’s the quintessential Yankee and, from an employment law perspective, an ideal to aspire to. No matter
Last year, Connecticut football fans were in nirvana. Giants versus Patriots. In a state where loyalties are divided among those two teams, you couldn’t ask for a better match-up.
This year? Well, let’s just say that many people will need to find some alternative reason to get excited about the matchup.
Which is where office
For football fans in Connecticut, it doesn’t get any better than this — Patriots and Giants in the Super Bowl. With loyalties evenly divided in this state between the Giants and Patriots, interest in the Super Bowl will be at an all-time high. (My allegiance has
always been with the Giants, particularly since Robert