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
A while back, I got this question: Can we still use independent contractors for our business?
This answer is certainly yes. But you wouldn’t know it from all the headlines of late.
And you wouldn’t think so by the attacks on the use of independent contractors by government agencies. Take this quote from the U.S.
Whatever happened to summer vacation? You remember, that downtime, when nothing much happened?
First, there were new proposed OT rules. Then, word came out EARLY (I got an alert at 6a!) today that the U.S. Department of Labor issued new “guidance” that will
With all the publicity about paid sick leave (effective January 1, 2012 — you’re ready, right?), it’s important not to forget that there are plenty of other employment laws that employers have to consider.
Over the last few years, there’s been more agency
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
I realize this blog has been a little top heavy of late with legislative developments, but it always seems that a whole year’s worth of developments occur within a 2-3 week period at the end of the short General Assembly session. With this year’s session scheduled to close at the end of the day on
With just a few days to go, the list of pending bills in both the state Senate and House continues to grow.
But it is worth updating readers on one uncontroversial employment law bill that passed the Senate over a month ago that remains pending. 
Specifically, Senate Bill 216 would renew a labor law that permitted 15-year-olds
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