The much buzzed about Senate Bill 913, introduced by the Labor and Public Employees Committee, would require businesses that employ fifty or more to allow employees to take paid time off to recuperate from an illness or to care for a sick child. The bill would allow permanent full-time and part-time employees to accrue paid […]
The Americans with Disabilities Act was amended in 2008 (“ADAAA”) and imposed a number of significant changes, particularly as to the determination of who has a “disability” under the ADA. The ADAAA overturned several major Supreme Court cases and caused concern amongst employers attempting to figure out how the changes would impact their obligations under […]
On the heels of the well publicized settlement this past February between the Hartford office of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) and AMR of Connecticut resulting from the NLRB’s complaint that the employer unlawfully terminated an employee in response to the employee’s criticism of her supervisor on Facebook, another social media issue has caught […]
