Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, was treasurer of the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency during years in which $103,713 of state money dedicated to compensating workers affected by the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting went missing. The Sandy Hook Workers Assistance Fund was originally administered by the Judicial Branch’s Office of ...
A new union agreement between the state of Connecticut and supervisors in the Department of Children and Families will cost the state $1.2 million per year in annual wage and benefit increases was approved in the Senate and the House of Representatives on March 4. The arbitrated deal has been ...
Connecticut Department of Correction employees logged 66,447 hours of union leave time over the course of two years, with a total cost of $2.2 million, according to a newly-released audit. In their review, the auditors noted that two employees took what appeared to be “excessive” leave time during the 2016 ...
The Department of Economic and Community Development was cited by state auditors for forgiving or modifying state loans to companies totaling $23.6 million and awarding $16 million in excess assistance through the First Five Plus program, according to a new state audit. The audit comes as DECD Commissioner David Lehman ...
The Office of the State Treasurer says that it worked with teachers’ union officials, the Governor’s Office and the Office of Policy and Management on pension changes that union officials are now telling their members are “illegal.” Language included in the 2019 Connecticut budget revised the death benefit pension payout for Connecticut teachers who adopt ...
Connecticut’s teachers’ unions are angered over changes to how the state calculates teacher pension death benefit payments for spouses and are working behind the scenes to reverse the reforms, according to emails obtained by Yankee Institute. When a retired teacher passes away, the Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board cuts a lump-sum ...