There shall be a Labor Department. The department head shall be the Labor Commissioner, who shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5, 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8. ...

(a) The Labor Commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women and the means of promoting...

Sections 31-2a and 31-2b are repealed. ...

Sections 31-2a and 31-2b are repealed. ...

Section 31-2c is repealed, effective October 1, 1998. ...

The Labor Commissioner is authorized to investigate the wages, hours of employment, necessary expense of living and health, so far as affected by their employment, of wage-earning persons in...

(a) To assist the state in attaining maximum economic growth and technological progress while minimizing individual hardship and reducing unemployment, the Labor Commissioner shall: (1) Evaluate...

(a) The Labor Commissioner shall appoint a job training coordinator who shall develop and implement innovative programs which will provide (1) job training for (A) workers who are needed by...

Section 31-3e is repealed. ...

The Labor Commissioner shall create an employment training benefits voucher. Such voucher shall state that the holder of the voucher is eligible for those training and benefit programs...

(a) The Labor Commissioner shall provide assistance within existing resources to displaced homemakers and access to programs specific to the job training and placement needs of displaced...

(a) There is created, within the Office of Workforce Competitiveness established under section 4-124w, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission. (b) The duties and responsibilities of...

(a) The members of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall be appointed as specified in subsection (b) of this section. (b) (1) The commission shall consist of twenty-four...

As used in sections 31-3j to 31-3r, inclusive: (1) Board means a regional work force development board established under section 31-3k; (2) Commission means the Connecticut Employment and...

Not later than July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the Governor shall designate appropriate state agencies as agencies involved in employment and training. The department heads of each agency...

(a) The commissioner, in consultation with the commission, shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the provisions of sections 31-3j to 31-3r, inclusive. The regulations...

(a) The commission shall review and approve each annual regional plan prepared pursuant to subparagraph (E) of subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 31-3k. (b) The commission shall ensure...

In any case where a board, after review, determines that a grant proposal or plan submitted to a state agency involved in employment and training is inconsistent with the board's annual regional...

All state employment and training programs shall be consistent with any guidelines issued by the commissioner under subsection (b) of section 31-2 and the annual plan for the coordination of all...

Nothing in sections 31-3j to 31-3r, inclusive, shall be construed or administered in any manner that would conflict with the requirements of the Job Training Partnership Act or supersede any...

Section 31-3s is repealed, effective July 1, 1995. ...

Within available resources, the Labor Commissioner shall establish a job training and retraining program designed specifically for unemployed persons (1) against whom an order for support of...

(a) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may allocate the funds authorized for the purposes of this section by subsection (b) of section 32-235 to the Labor Commissioner for the...

The Labor Commissioner shall give priority to applicants who have established a work environment consistent with the criteria set forth in section 32-475 in awarding financial assistance under...

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Labor Commissioner, in exercise of any duties including any duties as administrator under chapter 567, shall, within available...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Administrator means the Labor Commissioner in his capacity as administrator of unemployment compensation under chapter 567; (2) Self-employment assistance...

The administrator shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, for the administration of the self-employment assistance pilot program established pursuant to section...

Section 31-3aa is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. ...

On or before October 1, 1998, and annually thereafter, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall submit to the Office of Policy and Management and the joint standing committees of...

The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission, in cooperation with the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, shall regularly...

The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission, in consultation with the Labor Department, the Department of Economic and Community Development and the regional workforce development boards,...

All payments made from the Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA) in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, are deemed to be expenditures from appropriated funds authorized by public or special act...

(a) In addition to the required partners identified in Section 121(b)(1) of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, and subject to the approval...

The Labor Commissioner, in consultation with the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission and the regional workforce development boards established pursuant to section 31-3k, shall adopt...

(a) The commissioner may appoint, as special agents, competent persons, familiar with the language of non-English-speaking laborers, who shall inform such laborers, either personally or through...

Section 31-5 is repealed. ...

(a) The state of Connecticut accepts the benefits of an act of the Congress of the United States entitled An Act to Provide for the Establishment of a National Employment System and for...

The orders and notices given by the Labor Commissioner under the provisions of this chapter shall be written or printed, signed by him officially, and may be served by him or any proper officer...

Except as provided in subsections (a) and (c) of section 4-186, any person, firm or corporation aggrieved by any order of the commissioner may appeal, in accordance with the provisions of chapter...

There shall continue to be a Department of Factory Inspection under the management of the Labor Commissioner. Said commissioner may appoint or remove from office a Deputy Commissioner of Factory...

To assist him in the performance of his duties, the Labor Commissioner shall appoint not more than thirty deputy inspectors. Seventeen of such deputies shall be qualified as safety inspectors and...

Any owner, lessee or occupant of a factory or other building included within the provisions of this chapter or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, who obstructs, hinders...

Section 31-11a is repealed, provided the payment of any claim filed with the Labor Commissioner prior to April 13, 1981, for the payment of benefits pursuant to said section, for any week prior...

Reserved for future use. ...

(a) All funds received by the state of Connecticut under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, shall be deposited into the General Fund. (b)...

(a) Funds allocated to each regional workforce development board under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, shall be reserved by such board,...

The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission established under section 31-3h is hereby recognized as the state-wide workforce development board for purposes of complying with the federal...

(a) The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission, in consultation with the regional workforce development boards, shall develop a single Connecticut workforce development plan that outlines...

On or before October 15, 1999, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall submit to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to...

(a) On or before January 1, 2000, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall submit a single Workforce Development Plan to the Governor, which plan shall (1) be approved by the...

(a) The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall provide each regional workforce development board with criteria for the evaluation of funded programs, including a description of the...

Any education, employment or job training program or contract in existence on June 23, 1999, that is funded under the Job Training Partnership Act shall continue in effect until the renewal...

Reserved for future use. ...

Reserved for future use. ...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Underemployed means an individual: (A) Working part time but seeking full-time work; or (B) working full-time but receiving wages below the poverty level...

Reserved for future use. ...

Reserved for future use. ...

(a) The Connecticut Employment and Training Commission within the Office of Workforce Competitiveness shall produce, within available appropriations, a report on information technology workforce...

(a) None of the following persons under the conditions hereinafter described shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment more than nine hours in any day or forty-eight...

(a) None of the following persons under the conditions hereinafter described shall be employed in any mercantile establishment more than eight hours in any one day, or more than six days in any...

With each wage payment each employer shall furnish to each employee in writing a record of hours worked, the gross earnings showing straight time and overtime as separate entries, itemized...

On and after January 1, 1977, no employer, private, municipal or state, shall use a time card system, recording clock or other device intended to record the work time of an employee unless such...

(a) No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the...

(a) Any person who wilfully employs, or has in his employment or under his charge, any person in violation of section 31-14 and who permits any such person to be so employed shall be fined not...

No person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed by any telegraph or messenger company, in cities having a population of twenty thousand or over, to distribute, transmit or deliver...

Section 31-17 is repealed. ...

(a) No public restaurant, cafe, dining room, barber shop, hairdressing or manicuring establishment, amusement or recreational establishment, bowling alley, shoe-shining establishment, billiard or...

Sections 31-19 and 31-20 are repealed. ...

Sections 31-19 and 31-20 are repealed. ...

Eight hours of labor performed in any one day by any one person shall be a legal day's work unless otherwise agreed. ...

The Labor Commissioner shall examine into the employment of minors and into the observance of the regulations contained in parts I and II of this chapter and part II of chapter 558, investigate...

(a) No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or theatrical industry, restaurant or public dining room, or in any...

Except in state vocational schools or in public schools teaching manual training, no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in adjusting or assisting in adjusting...

No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to have the care, custody, operation or management of an elevator; any person, partnership or corporation violating this...

Sections 31-26 and 31-27 are repealed. ...

Sections 31-26 and 31-27 are repealed. ...

(a) Each person who operates or intends to operate in this state any manufacturing or mechanical establishment which has not been registered with the Labor Commissioner or included by him in the...

No person, except a member of the immediate family residing in a dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, and no firm, partnership or...

Any person, other than a member of the immediate family residing therein, who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, engages in the manufacture of any products, or parts thereof, in any...

Manufacturing and mechanical establishments may furnish materials to be manufactured in whole or in part by home workers, if such establishments are located within the state and subject to...

Any person who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, violates any provision of sections 31-29 to 31-31, inclusive, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate...

(a) The following terms, as used in this section, shall have the meanings hereinafter specified, unless the context indicates otherwise. (1) Person means an individual, a corporation, a limited...

Section 31-34 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. ...

Section 31-35 is repealed. ...

The commissioner shall have authority by order to that effect to require the proprietor of any foundry in which ten or more persons are employed, situated in a locality where there is such system...

Section 31-37 is repealed. ...

Any person, firm or corporation employing twenty-five or more laborers on a tobacco plantation, which fails to provide adequate toilet accommodations for such employees, so arranged as to secure...

Each railroad company, as that term is defined in section 16-1, shall provide for its employees employed in, at or near depots, terminals, passenger yards, coach yards, freight yards, switching...

The commissioner or his deputies shall inquire into the compliance with the provisions of section 31-38a and the regulations promulgated thereunder, shall make at least one inspection each year...

Section 31-39 is repealed. ...

Except as otherwise provided by law, the person in active charge of any establishment or work place coming under the jurisdiction of the Labor Commissioner shall forward by mail to the...

Each physician having knowledge of any person whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic, brass, wood alcohol or mercury or their compounds, or from anthrax or...

(a) Each employer shall, when required by the Labor Commissioner, at his own expense, provide lung function tests to each of his employees who, in the course of his employment, comes into contact...

(a) Any employee or representative of employees who believes that there is a violation by the employer of such employee of any provisions of section 31-40c may request an inspection by filing a...

(a) If, upon inspection or investigation of a complaint, the Labor Commissioner or his authorized representative believes that an employer has violated any requirements of section 31-40c, he...

(a) Any employer who has received a citation for a violation of the requirements of section 31-40c may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each such violation....

Upon offering employment to a prospective employee, each employer shall inform the prospective employee of any chemicals, toxic substances, radioactive materials or any other substances which he...

No employer, including the state or any political subdivision thereof, shall condition the employment, transfer or promotion of any individual on the sterilization of such individual. ...

If an employer has violated any of the provisions of section 31-40h, any individual aggrieved by such violation may bring a civil action for judicial enforcement of such provisions in the...

As used in sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive: (1) Person means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal...

(a) Each employer shall post a sign, at a location readily available for viewing by employees, which informs the employees that they have the right to information from their employer regarding...

(a) Each employer shall provide information on the toxic substances which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of...

(a) Any person who supplies any toxic substance to an employer shall provide the following information to the employer: (1) The generic or basic chemical name of the toxic substance; (2) the...

When an employer or an employer's supplier claims that revealing the identity of a toxic substance, pursuant to the requirements of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive, would constitute the...

(a) No employer shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, or in any manner discriminate against any employee who exercises the rights afforded to him pursuant to the provisions of sections...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Person means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal representatives or any...

On or before April 1, 1988, the Labor Commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, which establish the procedures and requirements for the granting to...

(a) No employer or agent of any employer shall require, as a condition of employment, that any employee or prospective employee refrain from smoking or using tobacco products outside the course...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Person means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal representatives or any...

Not later than July 1, 1994, the Labor Commissioner, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health shall issue guidelines establishing standards for the use of video display terminals by...

(a) In order to promote health and safety in places of employment in this state, each employer of twenty-five or more employees in this state, including the state and any political subdivision of...

Section 31-41 is repealed. ...

Each person, firm or corporation engaged in weaving shall furnish suitable appliances to permit the threading of shuttles without the necessity of the operator putting any thread into his mouth...

A public laundry shall be regarded as a manufacturing establishment within the provisions of the statutes. No laundry work shall be done in any public laundry in a room used as a sleeping or...

Each owner, lessee or occupant of a factory or other building included within the provisions of this chapter, or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, shall, for the...

Section 31-45 is repealed. ...

The Labor Commissioner may promulgate and enforce regulations concerning adequate protection for those individuals who are employed in occupations where injuries to the foot present a hazard....

Sections 31-46 and 31-46a are repealed. ...

Sections 31-46 and 31-46a are repealed. ...

Any agent of a firm or corporation and every other person who maintains or has charge of any structure used as a boarding house or place of abode for laborers employed by such person, firm or...

Any agent of a corporation, or other person employing laborers, who charges or exacts for articles or merchandise sold to such laborers a greater sum than is a reasonable price therefor in the...

(a) As used in this section, professional strikebreaker means any person who has been employed anywhere two or more times in the same craft or industry in place of employees involved in strikes...

(a) For purposes of this section, employer means the owner or owners in the case of an unincorporated business, the partners in the case of a partnership, the officers in the case of a...

No employer, except the state or any political subdivision thereof, or employee organization involved in a labor dispute shall hire any member of a municipal police department in the town in...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Employer means any person, firm or corporation, including the state and any political subdivision of the state which has employees; (2) Employee means any...

It shall be the duty of the master to exercise reasonable care to provide for his servant a reasonably safe place in which to work, reasonably safe appliances and instrumentalities for his work...

The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of part I of this chapter and sections 31-23 to 31-49, inclusive, by giving proper orders or notices to the persons or corporations owning, operating...

Any person, or any officer or agent of any corporation, company, firm, or the state or any political subdivision thereof, who blacklists any employee, mechanic or laborer, or publishes or causes...

(a) Funds from the Individual Development Account Reserve Fund shall be used to provide grants to community-based organizations that are operating certified state IDA programs for the purpose of...

Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, funds deposited into, held in, credited to, or withdrawn from an individual development account for a purpose consistent with the...

The department shall evaluate the Connecticut IDA Initiative for each fiscal year ending June thirtieth. Based on such evaluation, the department shall provide a comprehensive report on the...

Nothing in sections 31-51ww to 31-51ddd, inclusive, shall preclude a community-based organization or other entity from establishing an individual development account program and receiving...

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 31-51ww to 31-51eee, inclusive, any restrictions on funding expenditures required under any state or federal law shall apply. ...

When used in sections 31-51a to 31-51e, inclusive, apprentice means a person employed under a written agreement to work at and learn a specific trade; apprentice agreement means a written...

The Governor shall appoint twelve members to the Connecticut State Apprenticeship Council, each of whom shall have some association with apprentice training. Four shall be representative of...

The council may adopt recommendations for minimum standards of apprenticeship and for related and supplementary instruction, encourage registration and approval of apprentice agreements and...

The Labor Commissioner, with the advice and guidance of the council, shall formulate work training standards which will ensure necessary safeguards for the welfare of apprentices and a full craft...

To assist in the administration of sections 31-51a to 31-51d, inclusive, there shall continue to be maintained in the Labor Department a program of apprentice training. The Labor Commissioner is...

The Labor Department and the Department of Education are authorized to participate in the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended, by providing from funds appropriated or...

(a) For the purposes of this section polygraph means any mechanical or electrical instrument or device of any type used or allegedly used to examine, test or question individuals for the...

Section 31-51h is repealed. ...

All collective bargaining clauses which, in the judgment of the federal or state contracting agency administering the contract, preclude, prohibit or in any way discourage employers or groups of...

(a) No employer shall knowingly employ an alien who is not entitled to lawful residence in the United States. (b) Violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not...

Any person employed by a private employer which employs more than twenty-five persons, or by a municipality in which there is no ordinance or charter provision to the contrary, who leaves such...

(a) As used in this section and section 31-278: (1) Person means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal...

When used in this section and section 31-51o: (1) Covered establishment means any industrial, commercial or business facility which employs, or has employed at any time in the preceding...

(a) Whenever a relocation or closing of a covered establishment occurs, the employer of the covered establishment shall pay in full for the continuation of existing group health insurance, no...

(a) All employers subject to the provisions of chapter 567 employing twenty-five or more employees shall, at the request of a health care center, include in any health benefits plan offered to...

Any employer, including the state and any instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, who subjects any employee to discipline or discharge on account of the exercise by such employee of...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Employer means any person engaged in business who has twenty-six or more employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof. (2) Employee...

At least thirty days prior to the intended date of sale of any business in this state which (1) employs twenty-five or more employees and (2) has retirees from such employment who are receiving...

For the purposes of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive: (1) Employee means any individual currently employed or formerly employed and currently being rehired by the same employer within...

(a) No employer may determine an employee's eligibility for promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary or other adverse personnel action solely on the basis of a...

No employer may require a prospective employee to submit to a urinalysis drug test as part of the application procedure for employment with such employer unless (1) the prospective employee is...

(a) No employer or employer representative, agent or designee engaged in a urinalysis drug testing program shall directly observe an employee or prospective employee in the process of producing...

(a) No employer may require an employee to submit to a urinalysis drug test unless the employer has reasonable suspicion that the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol which...

(a) Nothing in sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive, shall prevent an employer from conducting medical screenings, with the express written consent of the employees, to monitor exposure to toxic...

(a) Any aggrieved person may enforce the provisions of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive, by means of a civil action. Any employer, laboratory or medical facility that violates any provision...

No provision of any collective bargaining agreement may contravene or supersede any provision of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive, so as to infringe the privacy rights of any employee. ...

Sections 31-51cc to 31-51gg, inclusive, are repealed, effective January 1, 1997. ...

No employer may request or require reimbursement from an employee for any loss or shortage incurred in the course of the employer's business as a result of any wrongdoing on the part of a...

(a) No person shall be required to work for seven and one-half or more consecutive hours without a period of at least thirty consecutive minutes for a meal. Such period shall be given at some...

(a) For purposes of this section: (1) Emergency means a situation in which a member of the employee's family or a person designated by the employee in accordance with section 1-56r has died,...

As used in sections 31-51kk to 31-51qq, inclusive: (1) Eligible employee means an employee who has been employed (A) for at least twelve months by the employer with respect to whom leave is...

(a) Subject to section 31-51mm, an eligible employee shall be entitled to a total of sixteen workweeks of leave during any twenty-four-month period, such twenty-four-month period to begin with...

(a) Any eligible employee who takes leave under section 31-51ll for the intended purpose of the leave shall be entitled on return from such leave (1) to be restored by the employer to the...

Records and documents relating to medical certifications, recertifications or medical histories of employees or employees' family members, created for purposes of sections 5-248a and 31-51kk to...

(a) (1) It shall be a violation of sections 5-248a and 31-51kk to 31-51qq, inclusive, for any employer to interfere with, restrain or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right...

On or before January 1, 1997, the Labor Commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to establish procedures and guidelines necessary to implement the...

Reserved for future use. ...

As used in this section and sections 31-51xx to 31-51eee, inclusive: (1) Account holder means a participant in a certified state IDA program; (2) Department means the Labor Department; (3)...

(a) There is hereby established the Connecticut IDA Initiative. The initiative shall be administered by the department. The initiative shall provide eligible individuals as provided in section...

(a) An individual who has earned income, and who is a member of a household whose adjusted gross income is not in excess of eighty per cent of the area median household income for the area where...

All amounts appropriated by the state for the Connecticut IDA Initiative shall be deposited in the Individual Development Account Reserve Fund, which shall be administered by the department. In...

(a) In the employment of mechanics, laborers and workmen in the construction, remodeling or repairing of any public building, by the state or any of its agents or by persons contracting...

(a) In the employment of mechanics, laborers or workmen in connection with any public works project, including, but not limited to, construction, remodeling or repairing of any public facility,...

The provisions of sections 31-52 and 31-52a shall not apply where the state or any subdivision thereof may suffer the loss of revenue granted or to be granted from any agency or department of the...

(a) The State Comptroller or the contracting authority acting pursuant to section 31-53 is hereby authorized and directed to pay to mechanics, laborers and workmen from any accrued payments...

The Labor Commissioner shall hold a hearing at any required time to determine the prevailing rate of wages upon any highway contract within any specified area on an hourly basis and the amount of...

Every contractor or subcontractor performing work for the state subject to the provisions of section 31-53 or 31-54 shall post the prevailing wages as determined by the Labor Commissioner in...

Each contractor that is awarded a contract on or after October 1, 2002, for (1) the construction of a state highway or bridge that falls under the provisions of section 31-54, or (2) the...

Each contract entered into by the Commissioner of Transportation for the construction, alteration or repair of a state bridge shall contain a provision to the effect that no person shall be...

Each contract entered into by the Commissioner of Public Works for the construction, alteration or repair of any public works project shall contain a provision to the effect that no person shall...

The Labor Commissioner shall, not later than June thirtieth of each year, distribute a list to all departments of the state giving the names of persons or firms that have been found in violation...

No contract shall be awarded by the state or any of its political subdivisions to any person or firm or any firm, corporation, partnership or association in which such persons or firms have an...

(a) As used in this section, the term contractor shall mean any person, firm or corporation which has contracted or seeks to contract with the state, or to participate in such a contract, in...

(a) As used in this section, the term contractor shall mean any person, firm or corporation which has contracted or seeks to contract with the state, or to participate in such a contract, in...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Commercial enterprise means any form of commercial conduct or a particular commercial transaction or act, including the operation of a casino, which relates to...

(a) As used in this section: (1) Required employer means any provider of food, building, property or equipment services or maintenance listed in this subdivision whose rate of reimbursement or...

(a)(1) Awarding authority means any person, including a contractor or subcontractor, who awards or otherwise enters into a contract to perform food and beverage services at Bradley...

As used in this part: (a) Commissioner means the Labor Commissioner; (b) Wage board means a board created as provided in section 31-61; (c) Fair wage means a wage fairly and reasonably...

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (j) of section 31-58, minors between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years who are employees of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall...

The commissioner or any authorized representative of the commissioner shall have authority: (a) To investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the state; (b) to...

(a) A report from a wage board shall be submitted to the commissioner, who shall, within fifteen days, accept or reject such report. If the report is rejected, the commissioner shall resubmit the...

Any person in interest in any occupation for which any administrative regulation or a minimum fair wage order has been issued under the provisions of this part who is aggrieved by such regulation...

At any time after a minimum fair wage order has been in effect for six months or more, the commissioner may, on his own motion, and shall, on petition of fifty or more residents of the state,...

The commissioner may, from time to time, propose such modification of or additions to any administrative regulations included in any order of the commissioner, without reference to a wage board,...

Each employer subject to the provisions of this part, unless exempted by regulation issued by the commissioner or as hereinafter provided, shall keep at the place of employment for a period of...

The commissioner may cause to be issued, to any person whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury, a special license authorizing employment at such wages...

(a) If any employee is paid by his employer less than the minimum fair wage or overtime wage to which he is entitled under sections 31-58, 31-59 and 31-60 or by virtue of a minimum fair wage...

The Labor Commissioner may act as agent for or in cooperation with the federal government in the enforcement of this chapter, and as requested by the federal government to aid and assist in the...

(a) In the performance of his duties under part III of chapter 557 and this chapter, the Labor Commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the Labor Department or corresponding agency...

(a) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation, who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has served or is about to...

In addition to the penalties provided in chapter 557, this chapter and chapter 568, any employer, officer, agent or other person who violates any provision of chapter 557, this chapter or...

(a) An employer shall not discharge, discipline, penalize or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has filed a claim or instituted or caused to be instituted any...

Any person who or corporation which withholds any part of the wages of any person, because of any agreement expressed or implied requiring notice before leaving the employment, shall be fined not...

Section 31-71 is repealed. ...

Whenever used in sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive: (1) Employer includes any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in section 12-34b, each employer, by himself, his agent or representative, shall pay weekly all moneys due each employee on a regular pay day, designated in...

(a) Whenever an employee voluntarily terminates his employment, the employer shall pay the employee's wages in full not later than the next regular pay day, as designated under section 31-71b,...

No employer may withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless (1) the employer is required or empowered to do so by state or federal law, or (2) the employer has written...

Each employer shall: (1) Advise his employees in writing, at the time of hiring, of the rate of remuneration, hours of employment and wage payment schedules, and (2) make available to his...

Any employer or any officer or agent of an employer or any other person authorized by an employer to pay wages who violates any provision of this part may be: (1) Fined not less than two thousand...

The commissioner is authorized to issue regulations for the establishment of procedures for carrying out the provisions of sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive. ...

The commissioner may, upon application, waive the provisions of section 31-71b with respect to any particular week or weeks, and may also, upon application, permit any employer, subject to the...

(a) When used in this section, refund of wages means: (1) The return by an employee to his employer or to any agent of his employer of any sum of money actually paid or owed to the employee in...

No employer of labor or any person acting for him shall make a discount or deduction from the wages of any person employed by him, when the wages of the employee or any part thereof are paid at...

Whenever an employee is eligible to receive both vacation pay and his regular wage payment on the same pay day, his employer shall compute federal social security and withholding taxes from the...

No employer shall discriminate in the amount of compensation paid to any employee solely on the basis of sex. Any difference in pay based on sex shall be deemed a discrimination within the...

The Labor Commissioner shall carry out the provisions of section 31-75 either upon complaint or upon his own motion. For this purpose, the commissioner, or his authorized representative, may...

(a) On receipt of a complaint for nonpayment of wages or a violation of the provisions of subsection (g) of section 31-288, the Labor Commissioner, the director of minimum wage and wage...

As used in sections 31-76b to 31-76j, inclusive: (1) The regular rate at which an employee is employed shall be deemed to include all remuneration for employment paid to, or on behalf of, the...

No employer, except as otherwise provided herein, shall employ any of his employees for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives remuneration for his employment in excess...

Section 31-76d is repealed. ...

No employer shall be deemed to have violated section 31-76c by employing any employee for a workweek in excess of the maximum workweek applicable to such employee if such employee is employed...

No employer shall be deemed to have violated section 31-76c by employing any employee for a workweek in excess of the maximum workweek applicable to such employee if, pursuant to an agreement or...

Extra compensation paid as described in subparagraphs (E), (F) and (G) of subdivision (1) of section 31-76b shall be creditable toward overtime compensation payable pursuant to sections 31-76b to...

No employer engaged in the operation of a hospital shall be deemed to have violated section 31-76c if, pursuant to an agreement or understanding arrived at between the employer and the employee...

The provisions of sections 31-76b to 31-76j, inclusive, shall not apply with respect to (a) any driver or helper, excluding drivers or helpers employed by exempt employers, with respect to whom...

All wage orders and administrative regulations in effect on July 1, 1967, based upon a workweek other than the workweek herein established are amended consistent with sections 31-76b to 31-76j,...

If an employer policy or collective bargaining agreement provides for the payment of accrued fringe benefits upon termination, including but not limited to paid vacations, holidays, sick days and...

The Labor Commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of section 31-76i. ...

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the general statutes, if the Labor Commissioner imposes a fine or civil penalty under the provisions of section 31-15, 31-16, 31-18, 31-23, 31-24, 31-25,...

As used in this section, labor organization means any organization or association or any agency or employee representation committee or plan which exists for the purpose, in whole or part, of...

Sections 31-78 to 31-89, inclusive, are repealed. ...

(a) Payments to employee welfare funds, as defined in subsection (h) of section 31-53, which are past due under the terms of a written contract or rules and regulations adopted by the trustees of...

(a) Whenever any contribution is made by an employer to a pension fund for the benefit of a member of a labor union of licensed electricians and apprentices as defined in section 20-330, the...

Any person, and any agent or officer of any corporation, who coerces or compels, or attempts to coerce or compel, any laborer, mechanic or other employee in the employ of such person or...

In any election held by a local labor organization for the purpose of election of officers, election of trustees or ratification of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, voting shall be...

Whenever conditions warrant, the Labor Commissioner or the chairman of the board shall request the Governor to appoint, and the governor shall have authority to appoint, one or more alternate...

(a) Each public member of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration, including alternates, shall be sworn once at the beginning of his term of office (1) to support the Constitution of the United...

In the performance of the duties of conciliation, mediation or arbitration, the board shall be represented by a panel of three of its members, except that, in arbitration, a single public member...

Section 31-94 is repealed. ...

Said board, or any member thereof, may enter any establishment in which a strike or lockout exists in order to examine payrolls and other records and to inspect conditions affecting the relations...

The Labor Commissioner, with the advice and approval of said board, shall appoint at least five mediators to act for it in making investigations and adjusting labor disputes. Each such mediator...

Section 31-97a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. ...

(a) The panel, or its single member if sitting in accordance with section 31-93, may, in its discretion and with the consent of the parties, issue an oral decision immediately upon conclusion of...

Whenever a strike or lockout occurs or is seriously threatened and it comes to the knowledge of the board, a panel of said board, as directed by its chairman, shall proceed as soon as practicable...

Said board shall, as provided in section 4-60, make a report to the Governor and shall include therein statements of such facts and explanations as will disclose the actual doings of the board...

When used in this chapter: (1) Agent means the representative of the board who handles all investigations of complaints and violations of this chapter; (2) Board means the labor relations...

(a) There shall continue to be in the Labor Department the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations, which shall be composed of three members. On or before June first in the odd-numbered years,...

(a) The board shall, on or before July 1, 1973, and quadrennially thereafter, appoint an agent, who shall be the representative of the board, for a term of four years at an annual salary to be...

Employees shall have the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choice and to engage in concerted...

It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer: (1) To spy upon or keep under surveillance, whether directly or through agents or any other person, any activities of employees or their...

(a) Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes or by the majority of the employees...

(a) The board is empowered and directed to prevent any unfair labor practices. When a complaint has been made to the board that any employer has engaged in or is engaging in an unfair labor...

Any party who wishes to have a transcript of the proceedings before the labor relations board shall apply therefor. The parties may agree on the sharing of the costs of the transcript but, in the...

For the purpose of hearings before the board, the board shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations and to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses. In case of contumacy or...

(a) The board may petition the superior court for the judicial district wherein the unfair labor practice in question occurred or wherein any person charged with the unfair labor practice resides...

Subject to regulations to be made by the board, the complaints, orders and testimony relating to a proceeding instituted under section 31-107 may be available for inspection or copying. All...

Any person who wilfully resists, prevents or interferes with any member of the board or the agent in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter, or who interferes with the free exercise...

No employees of an employer licensed by the Department of Public Health under section 19a-490, or their representatives, or any other persons shall engage in or induce or encourage, or attempt to...

(a) As used in this section, grievance means any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the interpretation, application or breach of the provisions of an existing collective...

When used in this chapter, except sections 31-120 and 31-121: (a) A case shall be held to involve or to grow out of a labor dispute when the case involves persons who are engaged in the same...

No court shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute to prohibit any person or persons...

No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court for...

No court shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open...

No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the basis of a finding of facts made and filed by the...

No temporary injunction shall be made permanent unless the plaintiff alleges and proves that he has notified the labor commissioner in writing of his willingness to submit such labor dispute to...

When any court or a judge thereof issues or denies a temporary injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute and either party is aggrieved by the decision of the court or judge...

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