Amendments to the Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act (CTFMLA) will go into effect on January 1, 2022, and employees will be entitled to 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period, instead of the current 16 weeks of leave in a 24-month period. (The amendments also provide that employees may be entitled to two
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Connecticut Enacts Law Providing Employees Unpaid Time Off to Vote
By Sally Welch St. Onge on
Posted in Leave
Governor Ned Lamont has signed into law a requirement for employers to provide all employees with two hours unpaid time off to vote. Employers may have missed this development, as it was just one small section within the state’s 800-page budget. The key provisions are:
- Eligibility for leave:
- any employee in the case of
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Connecticut Adds Additional Protections for Breastfeeding Workers
By Sally Welch St. Onge on
Posted in Lactation Accommodation, Pregnancy
Governor Ned Lamont has signed into law additional protections for breastfeeding workers. Connecticut law already requires all employers to “make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet” where an employee can express milk in private and also prohibits discrimination or retaliation against…
Connecticut Paid FMLA: What Employers Need to Know Now
By Sally Welch St. Onge on
Posted in Leave, Paid family and medical leave
With a difficult 2020 nearing its end, if Connecticut Paid FMLA has recently reappeared on your radar, don’t fret! Simply review the below basics to prepare for this upcoming change.
As a reminder, last summer (i.e., an eternity ago), Connecticut enacted two separate laws—one creating a paid leave benefit and the other amending, and expanding,…
Connecticut Paid Family and Medical Leave Passes House; To Governor for Signature
Late Friday, the Connecticut House passed a paid family and medical leave bill, which Governor Ned Lamont said he will sign, to provide paid leave to eligible employees and significantly expand employee eligibility and covered reasons for leave. The major practical effects of the bill, once signed, are:
- Making 12 weeks of paid leave,
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Connecticut Paid Family and Medical Leave: Senate Passes Bill, which Governor Vows to Veto in Current Form
Posted in Leave
Connecticut employers and employees are focused on Hartford, where last night the Senate passed a paid family and medical leave bill. Governor Ned Lamont said yesterday he would veto the bill. While Governor Lamont supports paid family and medical leave, he said he disagrees with the state-administered system outlined in the bill and wants to…
Regular, Reliable Attendance Can Be An Essential Function, Connecticut Appellate Court Holds
Posted in Disability Accommodation
A recent Connecticut Appellate Court case provides helpful reminders that:
- regular, reliable attendance can be an essential function of many jobs; and
- eliminating an essential job function is not a reasonable accommodation.
Plaintiff in Barbabosa v. Board of Education of the Town of Manchester was a full-time, one-on-one paraprofessional for schoolchildren. The trial court held…
Connecticut Issues Guidance on Pregnancy Accommodation
By Russell N. Jarem & Sally Welch St. Onge on
On April 23, 2019, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities (CHRO) issued a Best Practices Bluepaper as guidance for employers with three or more employees facing accommodation requests from employees for pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions.
The guidance reiterates the current obligations for employers as laid out in the 2017 amendments to the…