Connecticut General Statutes

CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES

WITHIN THE

JURISDICTION

OF THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF

LABOR

Updated through 2012 June Spec. Sess.

CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

CHAPTER 50 1

PART VOFFICE OF WORKFORCE COMPETITIVENESS

Sec. 4-124w. Office of Workforce Competitiveness. Responsibilities.

CHAPTER 68COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR STATE EMPLOYEES

Sec. 5-270. Collective bargaining. Definitions.
Sec. 5-271. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation.
Sec. 5-272. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations.
Sec. 5-273. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations.
Sec. 5-274. Prohibited practice questions determined by State Board of Labor Relations.
Sec. 5-275. Employee organization designated as exclusive representative. Bargaining unit determination. Petitions seeking clarification or modification of existing units.
Sec. 5-276. Mediation and arbitration services by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
Sec. 5-276a. Timetable for negotiations between employer and designated employee organization. Mediation. Elective binding arbitration; procedure.
Sec. 5-276b. Interest charges on overdue arbitration settlement payments.
Sec. 5-277. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding.
Sec. 5-278. Determination of employer representative. Negotiations and agreements with employee representative. Arbitration awards. Conflicts with statutes, acts or agency regulations.
Sec. 5-278a. Certain provisions of collective bargaining agreement to remain in effect.
Sec. 5-279. Strikes by state employees prohibited.
Sec. 5-280. Payment of dues to exclusive representative required.

CHAPTER 113 MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES

Sec. 7-407. Method of adoption.
Sec. 7-408. Civil service board; appointment; terms of office; removal.
Sec. 7-409. Purpose of part. Rules.
Sec. 7-410. Civil service board; president; chief examiner.
Sec. 7-411. Classification of officers and employees.
Sec. 7-412. Publication of rules.
Sec. 7-413. Examination of applicants. Certification.
Sec. 7-414. Classified service; eligible list; promotion.
Sec. 7-415. Credit allowances to veterans in examinations for original appointment.
Sec. 7-416. Appointments.
Sec. 7-417. Probation; notice of appointment or of creation or abolition of office.
Sec. 7-418. Inmates of institutions excepted.
Sec. 7-419. Removal of officers or employees.
Sec. 7-420. Interference with or false grading of applicants.
Sec. 7-421. Political activities of classified municipal employees. Candidacy of municipal employees for elective office. Leaves of absence. Service on governmental bodies of the town in which the employee resides.
Sec. 7-421a. Inconsistent statutory or charter provisions.
Sec. 7-421b. Limitation on restrictions of political rights of municipal employees.
Sec. 7-422. Personnel appeals board. Appeal to Superior Court.
Sec. 7-423. Technical services by Department of Administrative Services.
Sec. 7-424. Penalty.
Sec. 7-425. Definitions.
Sec. 7-426. Separate funds. Retirement rate.
Sec. 7-427. Participation by municipalities.
Sec. 7-427a. Enrollment procedures for employees of regional work force development boards. Rights of previously retired members unaffected. Transfer of contributions.
Sec. 7-427b. Credit for prior service with private industry council or regional work force development board.
Sec. 7-428. Retirement on account of length of service and age.
Sec. 7-429. Retirement of elective officers.
Sec. 7-430. Involuntary retirement; temporary retention.
Sec. 7-431. Separation from service before voluntary retirement age.
Sec. 7-432. Retirement for disability.
Secs. 7-433 and 7-433a. Disability or death of firemen or policemen caused by hypertension or heart disease.
Sec. 7-433b. Survivors' benefits for firemen and policemen. Maximum cumulative payment.
Sec. 7-433c. Benefits for policemen or firemen disabled or dead as a result of hypertension or heart disease.
Sec. 7-433d. Injury or death of fireman while engaged in fire duties with another company.
Sec. 7-434. Continuity of service.
Sec. 7-434a. Continuation of membership during service as elected official.
Sec. 7-435. Retirement benefits for members of fund A.
Sec. 7-436. Retirement benefits for members of fund B. Monthly allowance for Old Age and Survivors Insurance System members.
Sec. 7-436a. Exclusion of period when service was eligible for special act pension system in computation of retirement credit. Inclusion of certain periods of such service.
Sec. 7-436b. Credit for military service for members of fund B.
Sec. 7-437. Retirement allowance and Social Security benefits to equal sum payable under retirement system alone, when.
Sec. 7-438. Continuation of retirement allowance upon other public employment. Participation in state retirement system. Reemployment by participating municipality.
Secs. 7-439 and 7-439a. Optional form of retirement allowance. Survivorship benefits for spouses of certain employees who had not exercised the option.
Sec. 7-439b. Cost of living adjustment to retirement allowance.
Sec. 7-439c. Discharge of liability for increases of retirement allowance.
Sec. 7-439d. Cost of living adjustment not limited by subsection (a) of section 7-436.
Sec. 7-439e. Actuarial study by retirement board to determine cost impact of increases.
Sec. 7-439f. Study concerning restructuring of fund.
Sec. 7-439g. Optional forms of retirement income. Preretirement death benefit.
Sec. 7-439h. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations.
Sec. 7-440. Contributions by members; interest; refunds to municipalities; payment to beneficiaries.
Sec. 7-440a. Certain contributions by members treated as employer contributions.
Sec. 7-441. Contributions by municipalities.
Sec. 7-441a. Contributions to remain at level in effect on June 30, 1980.
Sec. 7-442. Transfer from fund A to fund B.
Sec. 7-442a. Transfer of retirement credit between municipalities.
Sec. 7-442b. Transfer of retirement credit between municipal and state systems. Purchase of credit for prior state service.
Sec. 7-442c. Credit for prior service with redevelopment agency.
Sec. 7-442d. Transfer of members of fund A to fund B by resolution of legislative body. Effective date. Transfer of assets by State Treasurer.
Sec. 7-442e. Credit for prior service with Connecticut Housing Authority.
Sec. 7-443. Initial rates of contribution by municipality.
Sec. 7-444. Withdrawal by a municipality.
Sec. 7-445. Liability of municipality.
Sec. 7-446. Assignments prohibited.
Sec. 7-447. Custody and investment of funds.
Sec. 7-448. Administration of part. Penalty for failure to provide necessary information to Retirement Commission.
Sec. 7-449. Effect of amendment or repeal of part.
Sec. 7-450. Establishment of pension and retirement systems or other past employment health and life benefit systems.
Sec. 7-450a. Actuarial evaluation of pension and retirement systems or other postemployment health and life benefit systems.
Sec. 7-450b. Cost of living allowance.
Sec. 7-450c. Diminishment or reduction of rights or benefits under pension and retirement systems.
Sec. 7-451. Retroactive coverage.
Sec. 7-452. Participation in federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System. Definitions.
Sec. 7-453. Membership in system. Contributions.
Sec. 7-454. Employees not included.
Sec. 7-455. Referendum.
Sec. 7-456. Deductions from wages.
Sec. 7-457. Agreement between commission and municipality.
Sec. 7-458. Refund of amounts recovered from federal government.
Sec. 7-459. Retroactivity.
Sec. 7-459a. Survivors' benefits authorized.
Sec. 7-459b. Deferred retirement option plan. Adoption.
Sec. 7-459c. Retiree group health insurance benefits. Restriction on diminishment or elimination.
Sec. 7-460. Compensation of officials and employees.
Sec. 7-460a. Sick leave pay exclusion from Social Security contributions.
Sec. 7-460b. Residency requirements.
Sec. 7-460c. Compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay.
Sec. 7-461. Leave of absence for reserve corps field training.
Sec. 7-461a. Leave of absence for specialized disaster relief services.
Sec. 7-462. Reinstatement of employees after military leave.
Sec. 7-463. Interest of state in employees' bonds.
Sec. 7-464. Group insurance benefits for municipal employees, volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance personnel. Age discrimination.
Sec. 7-464a. Deferred compensation plan for municipal employees. Administration. Option of participating in deferred compensation program for state employees.
Sec. 7-464b. Agreements between municipalities and boards of education to provide employee medical or health care benefits.
Sec. 7-465. Assumption of liability for damage caused by employee of municipality or member of local emergency planning district. Joint liability of municipalities in district department of health or regional planning agency.
Sec. 7-466. Collective bargaining authorized.
Sec. 7-467. Collective bargaining. Definitions.
Sec. 7-467a. Qualification of employee organization.
Sec. 7-468. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation.
Sec. 7-469. Duty to bargain collectively.
Sec. 7-470. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations.
Sec. 7-471. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations.
Sec. 7-471a. Supervisory employees not required to form employees association.
Sec. 7-472. Mediation by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
Sec. 7-473. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. Fact finder's report and appearance before parties. Procedure for acceptance or rejection of report.
Sec. 7-473a. Notice of expiration date of collective bargaining agreement. Notice of newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization. Filing; form.
Sec. 7-473b. Mandatory timetable for negotiations. Appointment of mediator.
Sec. 7-473c. Neutral Arbitrator Selection Committee. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Mandatory binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. Rejection of award by legislative body of the municipal employer. Second arbitration format.
Sec. 7-474. Negotiations and agreements between municipality and employee representatives. Federal approval. Elective binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs.
Sec. 7-475. Strikes prohibited.
Sec. 7-476. Existing bargaining unit not altered during term of agreement.
Sec. 7-477. Payroll deductions of union dues authorized.
Sec. 7-478. Municipal employee member of civil service board or commission not to participate in certain matters.
Sec. 7-478a. Municipalities participating in interlocal agreements deemed a municipal employer subject to collective bargaining.
Sec. 7-478b. Collective bargaining agreement provision re closing of nonmunicipal offices on Martin Luther King Day.
Sec. 7-478c. Reopening of certain collective bargaining agreements for compensation or exchange of benefits for observance of Martin Luther King Day.
Sec. 7-478d. Duties of State Board of Mediation and Arbitration if no resolution.
Sec. 7-478e. Mandatory binding arbitration for issues re observance of Martin Luther King Day. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Procedure. Criteria for decision. Apportionment of costs.
Sec. 7-478f. Rejection of award by legislative body. Second arbitration format.
Sec. 7-479. Conflicts of interest.

CHAPTER 166 TEACHER NEGOTIATION ACT

Sec. 10-153a. Rights concerning professional organization and negotiations. Duty of fair representation. Annual service fees negotiable item.Sec. 10-153b. Selection of teachers' representatives.Sec. 10-153c. Disputes as to elections.Sec. 10-153d. Meeting between board of education and fiscal authority required. Duty to negotiate. Procedure if legislative body rejects contract.Sec. 10-153e. Prohibited practices of employers, employees and representatives. Hearing before State Board of Labor Relations. Appeal. Penalty.Sec. 10-153f. Mediation and arbitration of disagreements.Sec. 10-153g. Negotiations concerning salaries, hours and other conditions of employment unaffected by special acts, charters, ordinances.Sec. 10-153h. Appropriation.Sec. 10-153i. Designation of statutory agent for service of process.Sec. 10-153j. The making of service of process, notice or demand.Sec. 10-153k. Teacher Negotiation Act applies to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies.Sec. 10-153l. Applicability of employment of teachers statute and teacher negotiation law to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies.Sec. 10-153m. Payment of attorney's fees in proceedings to vacate or confirm teacher grievance arbitration awards.Sec. 10-153n. Applicability of employment of teachers statute and teacher negotiation law to the Gilbert School in Winchester.Sec. 10-153o. Review of performance of arbitration panel members.

CHAPTER 556LABOR DEPARTMENT

Sec. 31-1. Labor Department. Commissioner.
Sec. 31-2. Powers and duties of commissioner.
Secs. 31-2a and 31-2b. Statistical services. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Sec. 31-2c. Employer reporting of new employees. Transfer of information between Department of Social Services and Labor Department. Notification of employer. Reimbursement to Labor Department.
Sec. 31-3. Investigation of employment. Special agents authorized.
Sec. 31-3a. Manpower development and planning studies and programs. Reports.
Sec. 31-3b. Manpower training programs. Job training coordinator. Interagency coordinating committee.
Sec. 31-3c. Job training program for specific employers.
Sec. 31-3d. Work training opportunities programs.
Sec. 31-3e. Basic education programs for Work Incentive Program registrants. Requirements. Report.
Sec. 31-3f. Employment training benefits voucher.
Sec. 31-3g. Assistance to displaced homemakers. Advisory council. Regulations.
Sec. 31-3h. Connecticut Employment and Training Commission: Duties. Report.
Sec. 31-3i. Connecticut Employment and Training Commission: Members.
Sec. 31-3j. Regional work force development boards: Definitions.
Sec. 31-3k. Regional work force development boards: Duties and responsibilities.
Sec. 31-3l. Regional work force development boards: Members.
Sec. 31-3m. Agencies involved in employment and training. Duties and responsibilities.
Sec. 31-3n. Regulations. Duties of Labor Commissioner.
Sec. 31-3o. Duties of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission.
Sec. 31-3p. Grant proposal or plan inconsistent with annual regional plan of regional work force development board. Procedures.
Sec. 31-3q. State employment and training programs.
Sec. 31-3r. Construction or administration not to conflict with the Job Training Partnership Act or supersede statutory duties.
Sec. 31-3s. Subsidized employment program for general assistance recipients.
Sec. 31-3t. Job training and retraining programs for unemployed persons who owe overdue child support.
Sec. 31-3u. Assistance to employers for job training and meeting ISO 9000 quality standards.
Sec. 31-3v. Priority for financial assistance applicants who have established a work environment consistent with criteria in Sec. 32-475.
Sec. 31-3w. Establishment of state-wide network of job centers.
Sec. 31-3x. Funding. Application for federal waivers.
Sec. 31-3y. Self-employment assistance: Definitions.
Sec. 31-3z. Regulations.
Sec. 31-3aa. Report re self-employment assistance pilot program.
Sec. 31-3bb. Program report cards re employment placement.
Sec. 31-3cc. Collection and analysis of data re gender and other bias in training programs.
Sec. 31-3dd. Recommendation re budget targets.
Sec. 31-3ee. Pilot program for TFA recipients. Report on pilot program for TFA recipients.
Sec. 31-3ff. Job Training Partnership Act payments.
Sec. 31-3gg. One-stop centers.
Sec. 31-3hh. Regional workforce development board contracts. Regulations.
Sec. 31-3ii. Adult education pilot program for incumbent workers. Report.
Sec. 31-3jj. Job training; English as a second language instruction.
Sec. 31-3kk. Funds for incumbent worker training programs.
Sec. 31-3ll. Twenty-First Century Skills Training Program. Regulations.
Sec. 31-3mm. Youth employment and training funds.
Sec. 31-3nn. Mortgage crisis job training program.
Sec. 31-3oo. Connecticut Employment and Training Commission solicitation and publication of information re promotion of green technology industry.
Sec. 31-3pp Subsidized Training and Employment program

Public Act 12-1 June Spec. Sess., Section 202

Unemployed Armed Forces Member Subsidized Training and Employment program.

Public Act 12-1 June Spec. Sess. Section 204. Not codified at this time.

Sec. 31-4. Immigrant laborers; protection; penalty for defrauding; printed material re rights.
Sec. 31-5. State employment bureaus. Branches.
Sec. 31-6. Federal aid for public employment offices. Notification of state job openings or examinations to the Connecticut Employment Service.
Sec. 31-7. Notices.
Sec. 31-8. Appeal from orders of commissioner.
Sec. 31-9. Factory inspection. Deputy commissioner. Report.
Sec. 31-10. Deputy inspectors. Prosecution for violations.
Sec. 31-11. Hindering inspector.
Sec. 31-11a. Employee Dislocation Allowance Fund established.
Secs. 31-11b to 31-11k.

CHAPTER 556a WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Sec. 31-11l. Definitions.
Sec. 31-11m. Workforce Investment Act funds.
Sec. 31-11n. Workforce Investment Act funds allocated to regional workforce development boards. Limitations.
Sec. 31-11o. Connecticut Employment and Training Commission to act as state-wide workforce development board.
Sec. 31-11p. Development of workforce development plan. Required contents.
Sec. 31-11q. Submission of comprehensive state performance measures developed by Connecticut Employment and Training Commission to General Assembly.
Sec. 31-11r. Submission of workforce development plan to Governor; prior General Assembly approval. Submission of plan by Governor to United States Secretary of Labor. Requests for waiver.
Sec. 31-11s. Connecticut Employment and Training Commission recommendations re appropriation of Workforce Investment Act funds.
Sec. 31-11t. Criteria for evaluation of funded programs: Connecticut Employment and Training Commission responsibilities.
Sec. 31-11u. Continuation of other education, employment or job training programs or contracts.
Secs. 31-11v and 31-11w.
Sec. 31-11x. Comprehensive job training and related services, grants for. Definitions. Regulations.
Secs. 31-11y and 31-11z.
Sec. 31-11aa. Information technology workforce development plan.
Sec. 31-11bb. Adult Literacy Leadership Board: Definitions.
Sec. 31-11cc. Adult Literacy Leadership Board: Members.
Sec. 31-11dd. Adult Literacy Leadership Board: Duties and responsibilities. Report and report card.
Sec. 31-11ee. Adult Literacy Leadership Board: Strategic plan.

CHAPTER 557EMPLOYMENT REGULATION

Sec. 31-12. Hours of labor of minor, elderly and handicapped persons in manufacturing or mechanical establishments.
Sec. 31-13. Hours of labor of minors, elderly and handicapped persons in mercantile establishments.
Sec. 31-13a. Employer to furnish record of hours worked, wages earned and deductions.
Sec. 31-13b. Visible clock required as part of time card system.
Sec. 31-14. Night work of minors regulated.
Sec. 31-15. Penalty.
Sec. 31-15a. Criminal penalty.
Sec. 31-16. Night work in messenger service.
Sec. 31-17. Hours of labor of minors and women in bowling alleys, shoe-shining establishments, billiard and pool rooms.
Sec. 31-18. Hours of labor of minors, elderly and handicapped persons in certain other establishments.
Secs. 31-19 and 31-20. Employment of women between one a.m. and six a.m. Hours of women entertainers.
Sec. 31-21. Legal day's work.
Sec. 31-22. Labor Commissioner's duties of enforcement and reports.
Secs. 31-22a to 31-22l.
Sec. 31-22m. (Formerly Sec. 31-51a). Apprenticeship. Definitions.
Sec. 31-22n. (Formerly Sec. 31-51b). Apprenticeship council.
Sec. 31-22o. (Formerly Sec. 31-51c). Powers and duties of council.
Sec. 31-22p. (Formerly Sec. 31-51d). Labor Commissioner's powers and duties.
Sec. 31-22q. (Formerly Sec. 31-51e). Program of apprentice training.
Sec. 31-22r. Apprenticeship registration; apprentices, sponsors.
Sec. 31-22s. Report re feasibility of on-line apprenticeship registration system.
Sec. 31-22t. (Formerly Sec. 31-51j). Preclusion of apprentice training programs prohibited.
Sec. 31-23. Employment of minors prohibited in certain occupations. Exceptions.
Sec. 31-23a. Minors employed on or after October 1, 2007, deemed to have been lawfully employed.
Sec. 31-24. Hazardous employment of children forbidden.
Sec. 31-25. Operation of elevators by minors.
Secs. 31-26 and 31-27. Employment of women before and after confinement. Seats to be provided for female employees.
Sec. 31-28. Registration of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.
Sec. 31-29. Manufacturing license for residential buildings.
Sec. 31-30. Home workers.
Sec. 31-31. Records of home workers and materials.
Sec. 31-32. Penalty.
Sec. 31-33. Regulation of industrial home work.
Sec. 31-34. Stained glass windows.
Sec. 31-35. Lighting and sanitary condition of factories and roundhouses.
Sec. 31-36. Toilet room required in foundries. Penalty.
Sec. 31-37. Toilet accommodations in manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and restaurants.
Sec. 31-38. Toilet accommodations on tobacco plantations.
Sec. 31-38a. Sanitary, lighting and heating facilities for railroad employees.
Sec. 31-38b. Commissioner to enforce.
Sec. 31-39. Employees in paper factory to be vaccinated.