Since 1962, employers with a dues checkoff provision in a collective bargaining agreement have been permitted to cease deducting dues from employee paychecks and remitting them to the union upon contract expiration. As of last month, however, employers can no longer relieve themselves of the burden of collecting and remitting dues upon contract expiration. In […]
While both the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and Connecticut law permit an employer to include the reasonable value/cost of lodging provided to an employee as part of such employee’s wages towards the minimum wage, employers need to pay close attention to the differences between federal and state law. Under the FLSA, an employer may […]
As discussed in our previous posts, here and here, Connecticut’s new paid sick leave law went into effect on January 1, 2012. Among its many requirements is an obligation for employers to provide adequate notice of the law to employees. Most employers likely satisfy this requirement by displaying the notice poster created by the Department of Labor. Though […]
The Connecticut Department of Labor (“DOL”) has released guidance concerning Public Act 11-52, the new paid sick leave law. The DOL also released a poster that complies with the law’s notice requirement. Both the guidance document and the poster are available on the DOL’s website The Spanish version of the poster is forthcoming. We provided a […]
Connecticut employers with workers classified as independent contractors understand the thin line that often exists between determining whether an individual is properly defined as an employee or an independent contractor. What many employers may not know is how severe a penalty they can pay for misclassifying employees as independent contractors, even where unintentional. Prior […]
The paid sick leave bill before the Connecticut legislature passed the House on Saturday. It will now reach Governor Malloy’s desk for signature. As he is expected to sign, the bill will become law on January 1, 2012.
On Wednesday, the State Senate narrowly (18-17) passed the bill requiring employers of fifty or more to provide paid sick leave to employees. This puts the act one step closer to passage. It heads to the House of Representatives next. However, the bill has been amended. In its current form, it applies only to “service […]
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 […]
Employers in the construction industry should not be surprised if the Department of Labor comes knocking at their door in the near future. Recently, the Hartford office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced an enforcement initiative to identify and eliminate wage and hour violations through increased compliance with the federal […]
