SEIU Healthcare 1199NE held a rally outside the offices of Allied Community Resources in Enfield on October 14 saying the company has not been paying personal care attendants on time. But the rally may be a case of the union biting the hand that feeds it. According to the Department ...
A joint public hearing before the Judicial and Labor and Public Employees Committee was held at the Capitol today to consider a working draft bill to change state regulations regarding wages for restaurant servers. The push for a regulatory change is a response to a series of on-going lawsuits against ...
An Information Systems Director for Charter Oak State College was allowed to work part-time from a new home in Florida for 16 weeks – just long enough to become vested for Connecticut state retirement benefits, according to a new report from the Auditors of Public Accounts. Although the employee initially ...
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy issued an executive order on September 26 to only collect union dues from state employees who have signed a waiver with the state affirming their decision to have union dues deducted from their paycheck. “This administrative order is the result of the Supreme Court ruling known ...
When Phuong Nguyen, a fiscal administrative officer for the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission, planned to attend the December 7, 2018 holiday party held by the Administrative and Residual Employees Union Local 4200, she was told by union president John DiSette that she was not welcome. Nguyen had informed the union ...
Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson issued a formal opinion on August 27 saying the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME ruling dictates the state must confirm employees have chosen to join a public-sector union through clear and compelling evidence before deducting union dues from paychecks. He went on to say ...