Connecticut deserves clean, fair, open and judicious government. That government cannot be provided by backroom deals or in the dark of night, as this session amply illustrated. We therefore call upon the governor not to call any special session that would start fewer than 7 days before the call would be made. We ...
Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, and Rep. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, filed amendments on 35 different bills to change the Democrats’ budget that would make the nonprofit corporation created with billionaire investor Ray Dalio’s $100 million education investment subject to the state’s Freedom of Information laws. The budget is being debated in ...
A provision in the 2019 budget deal eliminates the inclusion of multiple private vendors from Connecticut’s retirement-for-all program, leaving the state to choose only one vendor to offer different retirement plans and products to private workers. The inclusion of multiple vendors in the Connecticut Retirement Security Authority was pushed by ...
In the wake to two controversial police shootings in Connecticut, the latest Connecticut State Police contract exempts officers’ personnel records and grievance hearings from public disclosure under the state’s Freedom of Information statute. Along with the wage increases and benefits totaling $22.1 million outlined in the contract, Article 9 states ...
Access Health CT paid 16 employees who were terminated from Connecticut’s state-based health insurance program a total of $678,954 between 2014 and 2018, according to state auditors. Four employees alone received $207,363 before Access Health developed a severance policy in 2016. The average payout was more than $42,000 based on ...
Connecticut’s Department of Labor has a “hostile work environment” – particularly in the Wage and Workplace Standards Division which investigates and levies fines against employers for violations of state labor laws. That’s according to Connecticut state auditors who released the latest audit of the department. Seven recommendations by the auditors ...