As you may recall from our previous posts regarding student’s online speech, the summer of 2011 brought with it a split in the Circuit Courts regarding how to handle discipline of student’s off-campus online speech. Specifically, the cases J.S. v. Blue Mountain Sch. Dist. and Layshock v. Hermitage Sch. Dist. out of the Third Circuit and Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools out of the […]
December 2011: The firm made holiday donations to charitable endeavors including the Connecticut Food Bank, Homes with Hope of Westport, and the Adopt-A-Family program administered by the Milford Department of Human Services in conjunction with United Way of Milford. Funds provided to the Connecticut Food Bank helped restock the shelves during the critical holiday period. […]
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 […]
Currently on the table is a bill which would allow employers to require employees hired after October 1, 2011 to choose between direct deposit and a payroll card as their payment method, and which would also allow employers to provide employees with an electronic record of their hours worked, gross earnings, deductions, and net earnings, […]
Attorney Jeffrey Mogan will be presenting a seminar for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) on “Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations for Supervisors” on November 16, 2011 in New London. Attorney Mogan will discuss the DOT testing regulations, including removal from safety-sensitive functions and return to duty requirements, as well as other legal considerations implicated […]
Attorney Jeffrey Mogan will be presenting a seminar for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) on “Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations for Supervisors” on November 16, 2011 in New London. Attorney Mogan will discuss the DOT testing regulations, including removal from safety-sensitive functions and return to duty requirements, as well as other legal considerations implicated […]
Attorney Jeffrey Mogan will be presenting a seminar entitled “A Legal Roadmap to Operating Efficiently in Unionized Health Care Facilities” at the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities (CAHCF) annual Educational Conference on November 9, 2011 in Cromwell. Discussion topics include key provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and avoiding common pitfalls of employee […]
The paid sick leave law (Senate Bill 913, Public Act 11-52) is set to become effective on January 1, 2012. The law will make Connecticut the first state to mandate paid sick leave for employees. Employers are well advised to become familiar with the law even if they already provide greater paid time off than […]
This month, the FCC released long awaited Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) rule revisions. CIPA is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive, obscene or harmful content by minors over the Internet on school and library computers. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA. FCC recently released […]
In follow up to our previous post on April 13, 2011, the proposed rule to require employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to post workplace notices describing employees’ rights under the NLRA has been delayed into 2012. The stated purpose of the proposed rule is to inform employees of their rights to form, join, or […]
