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Age Discrimination and Today’s Workplace on “Where We Live”
Earlier this week, I made my long-awaited (ok, long-awaited by ME) return on WNPR’s ever-popular “Where We Live” show. As always, I’m thankful for the invite. My appearances date back quite some time...
View ArticleBusy General Assembly Session for 2019 Just Getting Started (Part 2)
Yesterday, I tackled the bills floating around the Senate-side of the Connecticut General Assembly, In today’s post, let’s look at the House side to see what bills are under consideration there: House...
View ArticleReopening Guidance – But What About the Older Workers?
“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs”. Sounds like a plan for reopening businesses in Connecticut next week, right? Well, that quote is from Bruce Willis’s character in one...
View ArticleReductions in Force: The Two OWBPA Provisions You Need To Remember
Lately, I’ve been talking with more employers about permanent reductions in force. It’s not fun. And it’s not something I thought we’d be talking about 3 months ago, and yet it’s not foreign to me...
View ArticleCan You (or Should You?) Exclude Employees Over 65 Years Old From Working In...
You read the Sector Rules for reopening offices in Connecticut. If you read page 5, you’d come across one of the guiding principles for reopening: As we start opening select businesses…we will open at...
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Quick Hits: Transgender Workplaces; Proving Emotional Harm; “Digital...
With Twitter, I’ve been doing less “recap” posts of late. Why? For the simple reason that you can get all of the posts I’ve read of late on Twitter. We didn’t have that when I started the blog nearly...
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Is There A Difference Between Firing Because of Age vs. Salary?
Up on Fortune magazine’s column “Practically Speaking” is the following question: Frank has been with us for more than 20 years. He works in the warehouse and has done a good job for us. I like him....
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When Your Employee Gets the Wrong Advice From “Attorney” Google
So, a couple of months back, I talked about how separation agreements for small employers might not be covered by the federal law that covers such agreements. After all, since the Age Discrimination...
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New Connecticut Law Bars Requests for Date of Birth or Graduation Dates on...
Continuing my deeper dive this week into new laws from the General Assembly, today’s post tackles Public Act 21-69, which goes into effect October 1, 2021. The law amends existing law by making it a...
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Separation Agreements Are A Useful Tool…If Done Right
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. I suppose that’s the advice parents should be giving to their kids nowadays but it holds true in employment law too. Take this sample severance...
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