In my continuing series of posts this summer on recurring issues in employment law, this week I’ll address the payment of wages and the question: Can I pay my employees on a bi-weekly basis?
The answer to that question is “no” — at least not without a waiver from the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to look at the long-term impact of last month’s Supreme Court decision in AT&T v. Concepcion for employment matters. (For a great analysis of the decision itself, see this SCOTUSblog post.)
All the analysis that has been coming out seems to suggest that there are
Yesterday, I started my recap of the Connecticut Bar Association seminar on social media & employment law that I had the opportunity to speak at.
In today’s post, I’m going to focus on another portion of what NLRB Regional Director Jonathan Kreisberg said at the seminar — something that may impact employers that have
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, yesterday held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws that discuss or limit arbitration agreements on the availability of class action arbitration procedures. 
The case, AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (download here) isn’t an employment law case (it concerns whether AT&T should have charged consumers sales tax
Finishing up the summer series of some of the basics of Connecticut employment law, I turn back to a wage & hour topic that comes up much more than you might think.
Connecticut’s wage payment laws (including Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-71b) are quite clear: Employees must be paid wages on a weekly basis. In
As I catch up from being at the ABA Annual Meeting, my colleague, Mick Lavelle, prepared this terrific little post about some long-standing labor statutes that employers should not ignore.
The Connecticut Department of Labor enforces statutes which were first enacted in the days when payroll records were paper documents, to be stored in filing cabinets.
Employers who have shunned using arbitration agreements for fear that they will be overturned, will want to take a look at a recent federal court decision that uph
eld an arbitration agreement that had provisions that some would consider very pro-employer.
In Pomposi v. GameStop, Inc. (download here), the employer moved to dismiss a
With the dog days of summer in full force here in Connecticut ("it’s the heat AND the humidity"), it seemed an appropriate time to roll out another installment of the "Quick Hits" feature to touch on a few items you might have missed over the last week or so:
Just time enough for some short updates on various posts from the last few weeks.
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning asked the government for its views on whether workers may
settle Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claims with their employers. The SCOTUS Blog has the details:
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. Solicitor General for the government’s view on whether workers may settle with their employers