Following its initial action, see Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Begins to Speak, the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee likely finished up its work for this legislative session and approved a final flurry of bills that would expand workers’ rights and protections. Some of these bills (e.g., paid sick leave expansion and scheduling changes) reflect trends that have been occurring in other states and/or had been considered in prior legislative sessions but never came to fruition.
Here is a summary of the approved bills (which now await action by the full General Assembly):
PAID SICK LEAVE: S.B. No. 1178 (“An Act Expanding Connecticut Paid Sick Days”) contains similar provisions to a bill from the 2022 session of the General Assembly that did not pass. This bill would, among other things, revise the state’s current paid sick leave law by: 1) covering all private sector employers (as opposed to just those employers with at least 50 employees and just “service workers”); 2) broadening the types of family members for whom an employee may use the leave (for care) from just children and spouses to include adult children, siblings, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, and “anyone related by blood or affinity whose close association is the equivalent” of these family members (which is similar to the provisions of Connecticut’s FMLA); 3) increasing the rate at which employees accrue leave...
CLAIM: Video claiming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had resigned. RATING: FALSE A YouTube video falsely claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had stepped down from office amid continue...