Berchem Moses PC recently announced that Mario F. Coppola has been named Senior Partner. Attorney Coppola practices in the areas of municipal law, land use and zoning, property tax assessment appeals, general civil litigation and real estate transactions. He has handled hundreds of land use/zoning and tax appeal matters from the administrative level through the Connecticut courts. […]
Starting May 1, 2020, all employers will be required to use a new I-9 Form, the form used to verify an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States. You must use the form with edition date 10/21/2019. The date appears in the lower left-hand corner of the form. Employers may switch to the new form immediately, […]
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has issued a revised policy on “Mandated Reporters Failure to Report” providing a mechanism for on-line reporting as an alternative to telephonic reporting. The new policy, following a year long pilot, provides a welcome alternative to long waits on hold which callers can experience. Specifically, revised policy 22-1-3 permits on-line […]
In a rare bi-partisan move, just before the Christmas break Congress passed a spending bill for 2020 that included a repeal of the so-called Cadillac tax. The tax, which was an excise tax on costly health plans, was due to go into effect on January 1, 2022, after a number of delays as to its […]
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that employees receive overtime calculated at one-and-a-half times the “regular rate” of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek unless the employees are “exempt” from overtime. A new rule, slated to go into effect on January 15, 2020, makes it easier to determine the regular rate of […]
When you formed your business in Connecticut, you likely followed several steps to create a legal entity, acquire funding and build a client base. If you decide to close your business, you may think that all you need to do is stop making sales and earning money. However, there are legal procedures related to closing […]
A disputed contract can become messy. Even the most thorough contracts are subject to dispute sometimes. As a Connecticut business owner, you have to prepare for disputes to occur. The best strategy that you can put forward is to have several ways to resolve a dispute. This provides you with options no matter the disagreement. […]
In October 2019, the State of Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) issued a letter offering significant preliminary recommendations for the prevention of child sexual abuse in public schools. The OCA was originally asked to conduct an independent outside review of a local board of education’s child sexual abuse prevention policies and procedures in June 2019, […]
When a business owner or representative enters into a contract with another organization in Milford, they likely feel a certain amount of security due to the nature of such an agreement. After all, a party cannot end a contractual agreement without first having cause to do so. Yet is that assumption entirely correct? There is […]
On July 30, 2019, the Connecticut Supreme Court decided a First Amendment free speech case with significant implications for both local and regional boards of education and institutions of higher education. In Haughwout v. Tordenti, 332 Conn. 559 (2019), the Court heard an appeal of a Southern Connecticut State University student who had been expelled for […]
