New limits in Connecticut and Florida on the messages that businesses can require their employees to hear are among a litany of state and local employment law changes set to take effect July 1.
In Connecticut, the Democratic-majority legislature is limiting employers’ anti-union efforts by barring them (Act 22-24) from firing or otherwise disciplining workers who refuse to attend company meetings where the primary focus is political or religious matters—including the decision to join a labor union.
The Republican-led statehouse in Florida passed its measure (HB 7) to prevent diversity training sessions as well as public school lessons that teach any one of a long list of forbidden concepts, including that a person “must feel guilt” over past actions of people who share their same race, color, sex, or national origin. The law is an extension of the trend among many GOP-majority state legislatures to ban the teaching of critical race theory and similar concepts in schools.
The two states’ laws are some of the more controversial items among the many changes in state and local employment laws that will become effective July 1. Other state measures going into effect that day include annual minimum wage increases, revised limits on employee noncompete clauses, and new bans on workplace discrimination related to traditionally Black hairstyles and textures, known as the...
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