A: Yes. As of June 23, 2021 and through June 30, 2024, Connecticut employers must grant each employee two hours of unpaid time off from their regularly scheduled work on the day of an election, for the purpose of voting.
State law specifies that the time off requirement applies to all employees—whether already registered to vote or not—when voting in a regular state election, as Connecticut conducts Election Day registration for such elections.
Employees who are not already registered to vote are not entitled to time off on the day of special elections for U.S. Congress, state senator, state representative, or judge of probate, as those unregistered employees will not be eligible to vote in special elections.
To be eligible for the unpaid time off, an employee must request it at least two working days prior to the election. Election Day this year is Nov. 8, 2022.
Although Connecticut law does not require that employers post information regarding this right to time off, as a matter of good policy, employers are encouraged to (1) notify their employees of this opportunity to take time off from work to vote; and (2) remind employees that they must give at least two working days’ notice of their intent to do so.
In some states, local laws require employers to consider available voting hours compared to an employee’s work schedule, so that workers have enough time to get...
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