Connecticut’s minimum wage is set to rise to $12 per hour in September, even as businesses in the state remain limited to 50 percent indoor capacity or are struggling with a loss of customers due to the pandemic. Connecticut’s reopening plan remains stalled at Phase 2 as a resurgence in ...
“Yankee Institute appreciates Gov. Lamont creating a state-focused task force to determine how best to reopen Connecticut businesses. As the governor constitutes this panel, it is imperative that he include representatives of a range of small businesses. Small and family businesses have been most directly and catastrophically affected by this ...
A partial judgement was handed down by Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher against two restaurants named in a class action lawsuit filed in 2017 by two former employees. Chicago Sam’s and Penny Corner Pub, both with locations in Enfield and Cromwell, lost part of their two-year old court battle, ...
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 ...