On January 1, 2023, a major law about the erasure and consideration of criminal convictions in employment in Connecticut will take effect.
Passed by the Connecticut legislature and signed into law by Governor Ned Lamont in 2021, Connecticut’s “Clean Slate” law will alter employers’ abilities to discover, consider, or make decisions based on an applicant or employee’s criminal history.
Although it has also long been the case that Connecticut law has barred employers from requesting information about, making hiring decisions, or discriminating or discharging employees based on criminal records that have been erased under Connecticut law, the new law expands protections for individuals whose records have been erased and will broadly expand the types of criminal convictions that will be erased or subject to erasure. The law also implements processes by which criminal convictions will be erased by automatic operation of the law or upon an individual’s request.
In addition to being barred from discriminating with respect to erased criminal records, the law expressly prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals in compensation or in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment based on an individual’s erased criminal history information.
As to the erasure of past convictions, the law provides for the erasure of certain classified and unclassified misdemeanors and felonies as follows:
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