Posted by Michael J. Rose | Sep 13, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Cindy M. Cieslak | Aug 08, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jul 28, 2021 |
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 §...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jul 28, 2021 |
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 ...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jul 12, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jun 28, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jun 23, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Jun 22, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | May 04, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | May 04, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | May 04, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | May 03, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Mar 29, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Mar 05, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Feb 09, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Cindy M. Cieslak | Feb 09, 2021 |
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...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Oct 28, 2020 |
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 ...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Oct 13, 2020 |
Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that Firm Partner Robin B. Kallor was recognized in the Top 25: 2020 Women Connecticut Super Lawyers List for the second year in a row. Ms. Kallor has been selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers list in the Employment and Labor category since 2015. Ms. K...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Sep 23, 2020 |
Effective September 18, 2020, Connecticut's Travel Advisory was amended to permit a voluntary traveler to test in lieu of quarantine. This is good news to employers who anticipate travel during holiday months.
This amendment alleviates the need to pay employees for their emergency sick leave p...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Sep 17, 2020 |
As you know, Families First Coronavirus Response Act required employers (with less than 500 employees) to provide up to 80 hours of paid sick leave and 12 weeks of emergency family and medical leave to employees for covid-related reasons outlined in the Act. The law permits healthcare providers t...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Sep 14, 2020 |
As employers plan to map out return-to-workplace scenarios for their employees post-Covid, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), has shed some light on whether telework, as it implicates ADA issues, should become a permanent staple of the employer's landscape going forward.
On Se...
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Sep 09, 2020 |
Posted by Michael J. Rose | Sep 09, 2020 |
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Sep 01, 2020 |
Hartford, CT – Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that Firm partners, Michael Rose and Robin Kallor, have been named to the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, a publication that has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. Adding to the list of accola...
Posted by Robin B. Kallor | Jun 17, 2020 |
The EEOC just amended its guidance regarding antibody testing under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Currently, the EEOC's position is that an employer cannot require antibody testing before permitting employees to re-enter workplaces. In doing so, the EEOC is relying on recent CDC Interim Gu...