On May 17, 2022, Governor Lamont signed Public Act No. 22-24, An Act Protecting Employee Freedom of Speech and Conscience. The law will go into effect on October 1, 2021. The law amends Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51q by making it illegal for employers to discipline or discharge, or threaten to...
Rose Kallor is pleased to announce that Attorney Melinda Powell recently led the Kingswood Oxford Mock Trial Team to statewide victory in the Ralph J. Monaco Memorial High School Mock Trial Competition. Sponsored by Civics First and offered with the support of the Connecticut Bar Association and...
Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured a summary judgment dismissal in an employment retaliation action, which included allegations of free speech retaliation under the U.S. and Connecticut Constitutions. The case was heard before the United States District Court for the Dist...
Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured two summary judgment dismissals in disability discrimination actions for the Town of Rocky Hill and the City of Torrington in federal and state court, respectively. The first case, against the Town of Rocky Hill, Vasel v. Rocky Hill, et...
Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured an arbitration award in its favor on behalf of the Town of New Milford in a grievance arbitration filed by the United Public Service Employee Union 47 on behalf of Thomas Kenny, Jr., a former Town of New Milford police officer, who was t...
Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that firm partner Robin B. Kallor was recognized in the 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers: Top 25 Women list for the third year in a row. Ms. Kallor has been selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers list in the Employment and Labor category since 2015, and to...
On Saturday, November 6, 2021, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed OSHA ETS following a lawsuit filed by various plaintiffs, including the Attorney General of Louisiana. The order from the court notes that suspension is warranted because the application “gave cause to believe tha...
The ETS applies to employers in all workplaces that are under OSHA's authority and jurisdiction (except those that fall under the ETS for healthcare or federal contractors/subcontractors.). The ETS applies to all employers that have at least 100 employees at any time the ETS is in effect. The ETS...
On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-part plan to continue to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The policy he announced that will most directly impact employers is that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) will be issuing a new emergency temporary order requirin...
What is the appropriate benefit scheme for an employee injured at work? Must you run multiple benefits schemes concurrently? The Appellate Court's recent unanimous ruling in Helen Monts v. Board of Education of the City of Hartford (AC 43856) provides answers to some of those questions and carrie...
On April 14, the Connecticut legislature has passed, and Governor Lamont has signed, Public Act No. 21-69, An Act Deterring Age Discrimination in Employment (“ADADE”), and the law is slated to go into effect on October 1, 2021. The ADADE amends the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act at §...
The Connecticut legislature recently passed Substitute Senate Bill No. 1023 (Pub. Act. No. 21-109) which makes minor changes to employer obligations and requirements to provide sexual harassment education. The new change allows employees in certain situations to “carry over” their past trainings ...
Lamont recently signed a law requiring that employers give two hours of unpaid time off as voting leave, Effective immediately until June 30, 2024. Specifically, employer shall grant to (1) each employee in the case of a state election, or (2) each employee who is an elector in the case of any sp...
On June 23, 2021, the United States Supreme Court, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., ruled that while a school district may regulate some speech that occurs off campus, its ability to do has legal limits. Background: The student, Brandi Levy, a sophomore, and member of a high school cheer...
Effective October 1, 2021, employers will be required to disclose to applicants and employees the salary ranges for positions. Significantly, the law also expands Connecticut's prohibition of gender-based pay discrimination from requiring equal pay for “equal work” to equal pay for “comparable wo...
One year ago, on June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton Country, 590 U.S. __, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020). The Court's decision interpreted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibition on discrimination “because of sex” to include discrim...
While Connecticut state law may allow for a citizen's medicinal marijuana use, when considering the hiring or retention of a police officer, the use of medical marijuana should raise an immediate red flag with respect to their employability and authority to do their job. While there may be a poli...
What are the limitations of Connecticut's Civil Theft Statute and when can an employee recover against an employee in Connecticut? According to a recent Superior Court decision, Global Staffing Services, LLC v. Brian Murray, advanced but unearned commissions are not entitled to the treble damages...
How much can you recover in attorney's fees defending a meritless lawsuit brought under Connecticut's anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute? All, if your motion to dismiss is granted, according to a recent Connecticut Superior Court decision. Connecticut's anti-SLAPP...
Vaccination of the U.S. population against Covid-19 is well underway. Recently, the United States hit a record of 4.6 million vaccinations in a single day on April 10, and presently, 36.8% of the population has received at least one vaccine dose, and 22.7% of the population is now fully vaccinat...
We all know that as a general rule, establishments may not discriminate based on gender. Thus, the question arose: can gyms and other public facilities segregate spaces by gender and not run afoul of Connecticut's Public Accommodations Act? You may think not, but it depends on the legitimacy of t...
There is a growing movement across the country to right a long-standing wrongful practice of discriminating against individuals on the basis of hairstyles historically associated with race. On Monday, March 1, 2021, Connecticut joined this movement and became the eighth state in the nation to pas...
Pursuant to Executive Order 7DDD, as amended by Executive Order 10A, the Oct. 1st Sexual Harassment Prevention Training deadline has been extended to April 19, 2021 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic for employees hired on or before October 1, 2019. This is a blanket extension and does not require a re...
On February 4, 2021, Governor Lamont issued Executive Order No. 10, which, inter alia, requires local and regional boards of education to provide paid leave to eligible employees who require leave for certain circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Section 6 of Executive Order No. 10 stat...
Municipalities have long relied upon Governmental Immunity as a doctrine which recognizes that it is not in the public's interest to allow a jury of laymen, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, to second-guess the exercise of a police officer's discretionary professional duty. Thus, as a general ...