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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Effective July 1, 2011, all cases before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities Office of Public Hearing were suspended, see pdf, as the Governor failed to appoint new referees for the term beginning July 1, 2011. To date, new referees have yet to be appointed. This all comes as a result of Connecticut’s current budget […]
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes. As expected, the decision was a victory for the retail giant. The Court denied the plaintiffs the right to proceed as a class on the grounds that the class failed to meet the commonality requirement, since the action was based […]
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak on Wednesday with Mike Devlin to a group of in-house counsel at the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Annual In-House Counsel CLE Lecture. The topic of discussion was recent employment law developments. Topics included the Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, NLRB trends under the Obama administration, the new […]
