Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-142a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 65 / Section 5-142a
Sec. 5-142a. Injury or death of sheriff.
Status: in_force

Cited. 175 C. 424; 221 C. 41.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-162d — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-162d
Sec. 5-162d. Tier I cost of living allowance for members retiring on or after July 1, 1975.
Status: in_force

(b) Each employee retiring on or after the effective date of the next collective bargaining agreement following July 1, 1978, which applies to such employee, and the spouse or contingent annuitant of any such deceased employee who had elected an optional form of retirement income, shall be eligible for an annual three per cent cost of living allowance commencing on the first anniversary date following the completion of nine months in retirement and any additional cost of living allowance which may be obtained under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

(c) Each employee who is not included in any collective bargaining unit and who retires after July 1, 1980, and the spouse or contingent annuitant of any such deceased employee who had elected an optional form of retirement income, shall be eligible for an annual three per cent cost of living allowance commencing on the first anniversary date following the completion of nine months in retirement. Cost of living allowances provided under subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section shall be computed on the basis of the retirement allowance to which the employee was entitled on the day preceding his latest anniversary date. Anniversary date means the first day of January or the first day of July following completion of nine months after the effective date of retirement.

(d) Each spouse or contingent annuitant of a deceased member who is receiving income under section 5-165 or section 5-165a shall be eligible for an annual three per cent cost of living allowance unless the spouse or contingent annuitant is receiving a six per cent cost of living allowance as provided in section 5-162h .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-278 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 68 / Section 5-278
Sec. 5-278. Determination of employer representative. Negotiations and agreements with employee representative. Arbitration awards. Approval of agreements and awards by General Assembly. Conflicts with statutes, acts or agency regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) Any agreement reached by the negotiators shall be reduced to writing. The agreement, together with a request for funds necessary to fully implement such agreement and for approval of any provisions of the agreement which are in conflict with any statute or any regulation of any state agency, and any arbitration award, issued in accordance with section 5-276a , together with a statement setting forth the amount of funds necessary to implement such award, shall be filed by the bargaining representative of the employer with the clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate within ten days after the date on which such agreement is reached or such award is distributed. The General Assembly may approve any such agreement as a whole by a majority vote of each house or may reject such agreement as a whole by a majority vote of either house. The General Assembly may reject any such award as a whole by a two-thirds vote of either house if it determines that there are insufficient funds for full implementation of the award.

(2) (A) If an agreement is rejected, the matter shall be returned to the parties, who shall initiate arbitration in accordance with the provisions of section 5-276a . The parties may submit any award issued pursuant to such arbitration to the General Assembly for approval in the same manner as the rejected agreement. If the arbitration award is rejected by the General Assembly, the matter shall be returned again to the parties for further arbitration. Any award issued pursuant to such further arbitration shall be deemed approved by the General Assembly.

(B) If an arbitration award, other than an award issued pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, is rejected, the matter shall be returned to the parties for further arbitration. Any award issued pursuant to such further arbitration shall be deemed approved by the General Assembly.

(3) Once approved by the General Assembly, any provision of an agreement or award need not be resubmitted by the parties to such agreement or award as part of a future contract approval process unless changes in the language of such provision are negotiated by such parties. Any supplemental understanding reached between such parties containing provisions which would supersede any provision of the general statutes or any regulation of any state agency or would require additional state funding shall be submitted to the General Assembly for approval in the same manner as agreements and awards. If the General Assembly is in session, it shall vote to approve or reject such agreement or award within thirty days after the date of filing. If the General Assembly is not in session when such agreement or award is filed, it shall be submitted to the General Assembly within ten days of the first day of the next regular session or special session called for such purpose. The agreement or award shall be deemed rejected if the General Assembly fails to vote to approve or reject such agreement or award within thirty days after such filing or submission. The thirty-day period shall not begin or expire unless the General Assembly is in regular session. For the purpose of this subsection, any agreement or award filed with the clerks within thirty days before the commencement of a regular session of the General Assembly shall be deemed to be filed on the first day of such session.

(4) Each house of the General Assembly shall permit not more than six hours of total time for debate of a resolution to approve or reject an agreement or award filed with the clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate pursuant to this subsection. Those speaking in favor of such resolution shall be allocated not more than three hours of total time for debate, and those speaking in opposition to such resolution shall be allocated not more than three hours of total time for debate. A vote shall be taken on the resolution upon the conclusion of the debate.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (4) of this subsection, if the debate on such resolution occurs during the last three days of the thirty-day period, each house of the General Assembly shall permit not more than four hours of total time for debate of such resolution. Those speaking in favor of such resolution shall be allocated not more than two hours of total time for debate and those speaking in opposition to such resolution shall be allocated not more than two hours of total time for debate. A vote shall be taken on the resolution upon the conclusion of the debate.

(c) Notwithstanding any provision of any general statute or special act to the contrary, the legislature shall appropriate whatever funds are required to comply with a collective bargaining agreement, supplemental understanding or arbitration award, provided the request called for in subsection (b) of this section has been approved by the legislature.

(d) No provision of any general statute or special act shall prevent negotiations between an employer and an employee organization which has been designated as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, from continuing after the final date for setting the state budget. An agreement between an employer and an employee organization shall be valid and in force under its terms when entered into in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and signed by the chief executive officer or administrator as a ministerial act. Such terms may make any such agreement effective on a date prior to the date on which the agreement is entered. No publication thereof shall be required to make it effective. The procedure for the making of an agreement between the employer and an employee organization provided by sections 5-270 to 5-280 , inclusive, shall be the exclusive method for making a valid agreement for employees represented by an employee organization, and any provisions in any general statute or special act to the contrary shall not apply to such an agreement.

(e) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, where there is a conflict between any agreement or arbitration award approved in accordance with the provisions of sections 5-270 to 5-280 , inclusive, on matters appropriate to collective bargaining, as defined in said sections, and any general statute or special act, or regulations adopted by any state agency, the terms of such agreement or arbitration award shall prevail; provided if participation of any employees in a retirement system is effected by such agreement or arbitration award, the effective date of participation in said system, notwithstanding any contrary provision in such agreement or arbitration award, shall be the first day of the third month following the month in which a certified copy of such agreement or arbitration award is received by the Retirement Commission or such later date as may be specified in the agreement or arbitration award.

(2) For any agreement or arbitration award approved before, on or after July 31, 2020, in accordance with the provisions of sections 5-270 to 5-280 , inclusive, on matters appropriate to collective bargaining, as defined in said sections, where any provision in such agreement or award pertaining to the disclosure of disciplinary matters or alleged misconduct would prevent the disclosure of documents required to be disclosed under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 , the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act shall prevail. The provisions of this subdivision shall not be construed to diminish a bargaining agent's access to information pursuant to state law.

(f) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, collective bargaining negotiations concerning changes to the state employees retirement system to be effective on and after July 1, 1988, and collective bargaining negotiations concerning health and welfare benefits to be effective on and after July 1, 1994, shall be conducted between the employer and a coalition committee which represents all state employees who are members of any designated employee organization. (2) The provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not be construed to prevent the employer and any designated employee organization from bargaining directly with each other on matters related to the state employees retirement system and health and welfare benefits whenever the parties jointly agree that such matters are unique to the particular bargaining unit. (3) The provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not be construed to prevent the employer and representatives of employee organizations from dealing with any state-wide issue using the procedure established in said subdivision.

(g) (1) Nonmandatory subjects of bargaining shall not be subject to the impasse procedures of section 5-276a . In the case of higher education teaching faculty, the arbitrator shall not make a decision involving academic policy unless it affects the wages, hours or conditions of employment of such faculty. Any arbitration award issued on such matters shall be unenforceable. (2) Unless mutually agreed to by the parties, the impasse procedures of section 5-276a shall not be invoked during the pendency before the State Board of Labor Relations of any scope of bargaining question arising from the parties' negotiations. Any such question shall take precedence over all other matters pending before said board.

Cited. 179 C. 184; 183 C. 235, 238; 197 C. 91; 201 C. 685; 239 C. 32.

Cited. 13 CA 461. Collective bargaining agreement did not need to undergo new supersedence process under statute as 1989 memorandum of agreement between state and union it incorporated was evidence legislature had already approved benefits changes concerning per diem employees. 218 CA 445.

Cited. 43 CS 1.

Subsec. (e):

Plaintiff's claim that he was laid off in violation of Sec. 5-241 is barred by doctrine of sovereign immunity because defendants acted in accordance with legislatively approved collective bargaining agreement provisions that superseded statute. 278 C. 204.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-156c — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-156c
Sec. 5-156c. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) If a member or beneficiary has been overpaid through no fault of his own, and he could not reasonably have been expected to detect the error, the Retirement Commission may waive any repayment which it believes would cause hardship.

(c) The Retirement Commission shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 establishing criteria for the waiver of repayment.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192d — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192d
Sec. 5-192d. Administration of retirement funds for teachers at E. O. Smith School.
Status: in_force

See chapter 167a re Teachers' Retirement Fund.

See Sec. 10-183p re transfers between state employees', teachers' and alternate retirement programs.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-164 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-164
Sec. 5-164. Continuance in office or position after retirement date.
Status: in_force

(b) A member who has reached the retirement age of seventy may be continued in his position in state service, if such continuation is approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services. The appointing authority requesting such continuation shall certify in writing to the Commissioner of Administrative Services that the continuation is desirable for the efficient conduct of the state's business and that the member is able and qualified to perform the work required. Approval by the Commissioner of Administrative Services of such continuation shall be for a period of one year, which may be renewed by said commissioner upon request by the appointing authority.

(c) A department head, head of an institution or administrator of a state fund may be continued as provided in subsection (b) of this section. A continuation of such employee beyond the age of seventy-three shall be requested by the appointing authority in writing and shall require the approval of the Governor.

(d) Except as provided in section 5-164a , the existing retirement rights of a member continued under this section after his retirement date shall not be affected by such continuation, and additional retirement rights shall accrue to him. Retirement contributions shall be deducted from his salary during the period of continued employment. The provisions of chapter 67 dealing with examinations, certifications and appointments to and separations from the service shall not apply to any such member.

Cited. 2 CA 196.

Former statute cited. 22 CS 97.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-213 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-213
Sec. 5-213. Termination of longevity payments to employees not included in any collective bargaining unit.
Status: in_force

(b) No longevity payment shall be made to any employee in the state service who is not included in any collective bargaining unit, except those employees whose compensation is prescribed by statute, for service completed on or after April 1, 2013.

Statute cannot be construed as prohibiting a retiree from receiving more than two longevity payments in last year of state service prior to retirement; plaintiffs were entitled to have their final, prorated longevity payments added directly to their final year salaries in the calculation of their base salaries. 284 C. 149.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192l — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192l
Sec. 5-192l. Normal retirement.
Status: in_force

(b) Each member of tier II who has attained age seventy and has completed five or more years of vesting service shall be retired on the first day of the month coincident with or, otherwise, immediately following his seventieth birthday, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section.

(c) Each member of tier II referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall receive a monthly retirement income beginning on his retirement date equal to one-twelfth of one and one-third per cent of his final average earnings plus one-half of one per cent of his final average earnings in excess of the year's breakpoint, the sum multiplied by the number of years of his credited service and fractions thereof. The year's breakpoint for a member shall be conclusively determined based upon the calendar year in which occurred the last severance from service of the member. If a member has more than one severance from service date due to reemployment, such reemployment cannot result in a smaller benefit than would have been payable had he not been reemployed. Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 5-192e to 5-192x , inclusive, to the contrary, if a member's date of retirement, disability, death or termination occurs in the first six months of any calendar year, his monthly retirement income shall in no event be less than that which would have been payable had his date of retirement, disability, death or termination occurred as of December thirty-first of the prior year, and had his final average earnings, credited service, and breakpoint been determined as of that date. No retroactive payments shall be paid because of such minimum, and his actual date of retirement, disability, death or termination shall be utilized for all other purposes of the tier II plan.

(d) For each member referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section who has completed twenty-five or more years of vesting service, the monthly retirement income shall be the greater of the amount calculated under subsection (c) of this section or (1) if retirement occurs before July 1, 1983, $200; (2) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1983, and on or before June 30, 1984, $220; (3) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1984, and on or before June 30, 1985, $240; (4) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1985, and on or before June 30, 1986, $260; (5) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1986, and on or before June 30, 1987, $280; (6) if on or after July 1, 1987, $300.

(e) Retirement on the first day of the month on or after the member's seventieth birthday is mandatory regardless of whether he is eligible for a retirement income under this section except:

(1) A department head, as defined in section 4-5 , or any commissioner appointed to office in the executive branch by the Governor with or without the approval of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, who reaches his retirement date, namely, the first day of the month on or after his seventieth birthday, during the term for which he is appointed, may continue in office after such retirement date until the expiration of such term. Any such person who had reached such date prior to his reappointment as such commissioner may serve for the term for which he is so reappointed.

(2) A member who has reached the retirement age of seventy may be continued in his position in state service, if such continuation is approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services. The appointing authority requesting such continuation shall certify in writing to the Commissioner of Administrative Services that the continuation is desirable for the efficient conduct of the state's business and that the member is able and qualified to perform the work required. Approval by the Commissioner of Administrative Services of such continuation shall be for a period of one year, which may be renewed by said commissioner upon request by the appointing authority.

(3) A member who is a teacher, instructor, principal, superintendent, or supervisor employed by the State Board of Education or any state institution, and who has reached the retirement age of seventy may be continued in his position of state service to the end of the fiscal year in which his seventieth birthday falls, without the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services.

(4) A department head, head of an institution, or administrator of a state fund may be continued as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection. A continuation of such employee beyond the age of seventy-three shall be requested by the appointing authority in writing and shall require the approval of the Governor.

(5) Except as provided in section 5-192v , the existing retirement rights of a member continued under this section after his retirement date shall not be affected by such continuation, and additional retirement rights shall accrue to him. The provisions of chapter 67 dealing with examinations, certifications, and appointments to and separations from the service shall not apply to any such member.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-196 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-196
Sec. 5-196. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) “Agency” means a department, board, institution or commission established by statute, not a part of any other department, board, institution or commission.

(2) “Allocation” means the official assignment of a position in the classified service to the appropriate standard class of the classification plan.

(3) “Appointing authority” means a board, commission, officer, commissioner, person or group of persons or the designee of such board, commission, officer, commissioner, person or group of persons having the power to make appointments by virtue of a statute or by lawfully delegated authority.

(4) “Candidate list” means a list of the names of persons based on merit as determined under the provisions of this chapter, which persons have been found qualified through suitable examinations for employment in positions allocated to a specified class, occupational group or career progression level.

(5) “Class”, “class of positions” or “position classification” means a position or group of positions in the state classified service established under this chapter that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes.

(6) “Classified service” means every office or position in the state service, whether full-time or part-time, for which compensation is paid, except those offices and positions specified in section 5-198 or otherwise expressly provided by statute.

(7) “Compensation” means the salary, wages, benefits and other forms of valuable consideration earned by and provided to an employee in remuneration for services rendered.

(8) “Compensation schedule” or “compensation plan” means a list or lists specifying a series of compensation steps and ranges.

(9) “Eligible” or “eligible person” means a person who has either (A) met the requirements of the class and been determined qualified by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, or (B) been placed on a candidate list by an examination administered by or at the direction of the Department of Administrative Services.

(10) “Employee” or “state employee” means any person holding a position in state service subject to appointment by an appointing authority.

(11) “Examination” means an assessment device or technique yielding scores or ratings designed to determine the fitness of candidates for positions allocated to a specified class, occupational group or career progression level.

(12) “Full-time employee” means an employee holding a position normally requiring thirty-five hours or more of service in each week.

(13) “Good standing” means the status of an employee whose employment in the state service has been terminated other than as a result of disciplinary action or during a period when disciplinary action was pending.

(14) “Grade” or “pay grade” means a relative level, numerically expressed, to which one or more classes may be assigned according to the degree of their complexity, importance and value, and which refers to a single pay range in the compensation schedule.

(15) “Minimum earned rating” means the lowest score or rating that entitles a candidate to pass the examination.

(16) “Officer” or “state officer” means any person appointed to a state office established by statute, including appointing authorities.

(17) “Part-time employee” means an employee holding a position normally requiring less than thirty-five hours of service in each week.

(18) “Permanent appointment” means appointment to a position in the classified service following successful completion of the required working test.

(19) “Permanent employee” means an employee holding a position in the classified service under a permanent appointment or an employee holding a position in unclassified service who has served in such a position for a period of more than six months, except employees in positions funded in whole or in part by the federal government as part of any public service employment program, on-the-job training program or work experience program.

(20) “Permanent position” means any position in the classified service which requires or which is expected to require the services of an incumbent without interruption for a period of more than six months, except positions funded in whole or in part by the federal government as part of any public service employment program, on-the-job training program or work experience program.

(21) “Position” means a group of duties and responsibilities currently assigned or designated by competent authority to require the services of one employee.

(22) “Public member” means a member of a board or commission who does not hold any office or position in the state service.

(23) “Reemployment list” means a list of names of persons arranged in the order prescribed by the provisions of this chapter and by regulations issued in accordance with this chapter, which persons have occupied positions allocated to any class in the classified service, and are no longer in such class and are entitled to have their names certified to appointing authorities when vacancies in such class are to be filled, in preference to those whose names are on the candidate list for such class.

(24) “State service” means occupancy of any office or position or employment in the service of the state, but not of local governmental subdivisions thereof, for which compensation is paid.

(25) “Temporary position” means a position in the state service which is expected to require the services of an incumbent for a period not in excess of six months.

(26) “Unclassified service” means any office or position in the state service which is not in the classified service.

(27) “Working test” means a trial working period made a part of the selective process under the provisions of this chapter and by regulations issued in accordance with this chapter, during which the work and conduct of the employee shall be noted by the appointing authority or his authorized agent and reported upon to determine whether such employee merits permanent appointment.

(28) “Veteran”, when used in this chapter and in section 5-180 , has the same meaning as provided in section 27-103 , and (B) who has performed such service in time of war, as defined in said section, except that the final date for service in time of war during World War II shall be December 31, 1947.

(29) “Managerial employee” means any person presently covered by the existing managerial compensation plan pursuant to subsection (g) of section 5-270 .

(30) “Career progression level” means the following career levels in which each class of positions shall be categorized as determined by the Commissioner of Administrative Services based on general job characteristics and minimum requirements for knowledge, skill and ability, including, but not limited to, education, employment history and special skills: (A) Entry, (B) working, (C) lead, (D) supervisor, and (E) manager.

(31) “Occupational group” means broad occupational areas in which each class of positions shall be categorized as determined by the Commissioner of Administrative Services.

See Sec. 4-9a for definition of “public member”.

Cited. 170 C. 541; 175 C. 586. Notwithstanding designation as unclassified, employee qualified as classified under permanent appointment by virtue of 6 years' continuous service holding position in classified service in all but name since position not exempt from classified service under Sec. 5-198. 176 C. 1. Cited. 177 C. 344; 188 C. 290; 190 C. 39; 192 C. 399; 226 C. 670; 238 C. 146.

Cited. 28 CA 1.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-169 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-169
Sec. 5-169. Disability retirement. Calculation. Board. Limitation of benefits. Offset and maximum benefit limitation. Cost of living adjustment. Alternative disability compensation. Board petition.
Status: in_force

(b) If a member, while in state service, becomes permanently disabled from continuing to render the service in which he has been employed as a result of any injury received while in the performance of his duty as a state employee, such member is eligible for disability retirement regardless of his period of state service. If the member's disability occurs on or after October 1, 1982, such disability retirement income shall equal one and two-thirds per cent times years of service projected to age sixty-five with a maximum based on not more than thirty years of such service and a minimum of one and two-thirds per cent times accrued service at the date of disability, except that such income of state policemen shall be determined as provided by subsection (b) of section 5-173 , provided, for the purposes of the formulas in said subsection, his rate of salary at the time of his disability retirement shall be used if greater than his base salary. If such injury occurred on or after October 1, 1982, and such member has completed at least five years of state service, his disability retirement income shall in no event be less than that provided under subsection (a) of this section.

(c) The Governor shall appoint a board of seven physicians, each of whom is a current or retired state employee and two of whom shall be experienced in psychiatry, to serve at his pleasure as a medical examining board to determine whether each applicant for disability retirement is entitled thereto. Three of such members, one of whom shall be the elected chairman or the elected secretary of the board, shall constitute a quorum for the determination of any applicant's entitlement. The chairman or the secretary shall report the findings of the board to the Retirement Commission from time to time as requested by the commission as to the entitlement of each applicant or the continuance of disability of members so retired. The Comptroller is authorized to pay for stenographic and professional services as requested and approved by the board.

(d) No reconsideration of a decision concerning eligibility for a disability retirement allowance or the discontinuance of such allowance shall be made by the board unless a member, upon application to the board for a redetermination, discloses additional facts concerning his condition at the date of termination of employment.

(e) Retirement income being paid for disability retirement shall end when and if the disability ends. In such event, such member shall receive credit for the years he was disabled, subject to a maximum total credit of twenty-five years or actual years of service to the date of disability, whichever is greater. Such member shall then (1) retire on normal or early retirement, if eligible, or (2) retain a vested right to a deferred pension, if eligible.

(f) No credit for a period of service of any kind prior to the months in which contribution therefor is made shall be given under this chapter or any special act in determining state service in connection with an application for disability retirement other than for injury received in performance of duty as a state employee, if such disability occurred within five years after payment of a single lump sum or commencement of payroll deductions pursuant to subsection (c) of section 5-167 . The foregoing limitation shall not apply to credit obtained immediately after transfer from the teachers' retirement system under section 10-183p for service previously credited in said system; but in that case no benefit for retirement on account of disability occurring within such five-year period, other than for injury received in performance of duty as a state employee, shall exceed the benefit which would have been payable by said system if transfer had not been made.

(g) Twenty per cent of all outside earned salary or wages shall be offset against the disability retirement payments by the state during the first two years of disability. On or after October 1, 1987, at the expiration of such period, if the total disability benefits and outside earnings exceed one hundred per cent of the pay of such member at the date of disability, adjusted annually by a percentage increase equal to the cost of living allowances applied to the member's disability retirement benefits pursuant to this chapter, the disability payment will be reduced by the amount such total exceeds such adjusted earnings. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the following maximum benefit limitations shall apply if the member's date of disability occurs on or after January 1, 1984. Such maximum benefit limitations shall apply coincident with the receipt of benefits under subsection (d) of section 5-142 by any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. To verify the operation of the maximums, members shall authorize the Social Security Administration to provide the Retirement Commission, on an ongoing basis, any information with regard to covered earnings or Social Security benefits payable. In the event both of the maximums indicated below apply, the lesser disability benefit shall be payable. Such maximums shall be subject to reexamination annually, as indicated in subsection (h) of this section.

(1) The disability benefit provided under this section shall not exceed one hundred per cent of the member's base salary or the rate of salary of the member on his date of disability, whichever is greater, less any periodic cash benefit payments being made to a member under the Workers' Compensation Act, less any federal disability Social Security benefits, including primary and family, paid on account of the member's Social Security earnings history, less all outside earned salary or wages, unless the Retirement Commission determines that such salary or wages are being paid as part of the rehabilitation of the disabled member. Any such determination that such earned salary or wages is for rehabilitation must be reapproved by the Retirement Commission no less frequently than every eighteen months, or the offset shall apply. The offset for workers' compensation and federal Social Security disability benefits shall apply when such benefits commence even if such benefits initially commence after the member's disability retirement date.

(2) The disability benefit provided under this section shall not exceed eighty per cent of the member's base salary or the rate of salary of the member on the date of disability, whichever is greater, less any periodic cash benefit payments being made to a member under the Workers' Compensation Act, less any federal disability Social Security benefits, including primary and family, being paid on account of the member's Social Security earnings history. The offsets shall apply when such benefits commence even if such benefits initially commence after the member's disability retirement date.

(3) The offsets for workers' compensation and federal Social Security disability benefits shall be reduced by the amount of any attorney's fees a member incurs to obtain such benefits.

(h) As of each anniversary date, as defined in section 5-162d , of such retired employee, the benefits provided under this section shall be subject to the following adjustments: (1) The benefits provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be subject to the increase provided in section 5-162d or 5-162h , whichever is appropriate; (2) the net maximum benefit provided in subdivision (2) of subsection (g) of this section shall be subject to the increase provided in section 5-162d or 5-162h , whichever is appropriate; (3) this subdivision shall apply only to the maximum benefit provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (g) of this section which shall only be considered if the member had outside earned salary or wages. The salary as described in subdivision (1) of subsection (g) of this section shall be increased by the percentage compensation increase that would have applied to an employee in the position and “step” of the member, at the date of disability had that employee continued to be employed and continued automatic progression to the maximum “step” for his classification. On the date of recomputation of benefits, the offsets for workers' compensation and federal Social Security shall be increased by that same percentage or the percentage increase granted under the cost-of-living provision of the Workers' Compensation Act and the Social Security Act respectively, whichever is less. This offset amount shall be adjusted to reflect any change in these benefits other than those resulting from the cost-of-living provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act. In no case shall the offset be greater than the actual benefits paid. Outside earned salary or wages shall reflect actual amounts earned during the preceding calendar year. In no event shall the application of this subdivision and subdivision (1) of subsection (g) of this section result in an income from all sources that would be less than the income that would have been paid had the member remained in service and progressed to the maximum “step” for his classification; (4) except as specifically indicated in subdivision (3) of this subsection, the maximum disability income determined under subsection (g) of this section will not be affected, when the workers' compensation benefits or the Social Security benefits are increased by cost-of-living provisions in the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act; (5) the maximum disability income under subdivision (2) of subsection (g) of this section will be recalculated if either the workers' compensation benefits or the Social Security benefits are decreased or discontinued. Any such recalculated maximum shall not reflect any increases arising after the initial application of the offset because of the cost-of-living provisions in the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act, except as specifically indicated in subdivision (3) of this subsection.

(i) If a member qualifies for disability compensation under section 5-142 , such member shall continue to be credited with service hereunder, and shall not be deemed to have retired until he elects to retire. While the member is receiving compensation under section 5-142 , the disability retirement benefits under this section shall be payable only if greater than the compensation paid under section 5-142 . In such event, the benefits under this section shall be temporarily reduced by the amount of benefits payable under section 5-142 for the period of receipt of benefits under section 5-142 . If a member is granted disability compensation under section 5-142 retroactively for the same period of time such member received disability retirement benefits under this section, such disability compensation benefits shall be reduced by the amount of disability retirement benefits received during such period, except that if the disability retirement benefits received during such period were greater than the retroactive payment of disability compensation benefits for such period, no disability compensation payments shall be paid to the member for such period.

(j) A member whose date of disability occurs prior to January 1, 1984, shall have his benefits calculated in accordance with the provisions of law in effect at the time of such occurrence. A member's date of disability shall be his last date of active employment by the state prior to such disability or the date as of which his benefits under this section are payable, whichever is earlier. A leave of absence for medical reasons shall not be deemed to be active employment.

(k) If after review of all testimony and documentary evidence, including medical reports, presented in connection with any determination or recommendation concerning entitlement to or continuation of disability retirement, any member of the board who believes that an individual was treated by a physician who is or may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill or safety, shall file a petition, pursuant to section 20-13d , with the Department of Public Health for investigation under section 20-13e . The record of the board concerning any such petition, and the proceedings of the board in connection therewith, shall remain confidential to the same extent as a record of the Department of Public Health under section 20-13e .

See Sec. 18-101e re calculation of disability retirement income for correction officers upon designation of extraordinary circumstances.

Cited. 170 C. 410; Id., 610; 175 C. 424; 178 C. 438; 208 C. 801; 210 C. 214.

Cited. 13 CA 477; judgment reversed, see 210 C. 214.

Cited. 31 CS 75.

Subsec. (g):

Legislature has explicitly provided for an offset mechanism under statute and past practice of an agency, no matter how well-meaning, to disregard the clear mandate of such provisions cannot be allowed. 270 C. 1.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-165 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-165
Sec. 5-165. Optional forms of retirement income.
Status: in_force

(1) A reduced amount payable to the member for his lifetime, with the provision that after his death his spouse, if surviving, shall be entitled to receive a lifetime income equal to fifty per cent of the reduced monthly amount payable to the member;

(2) A reduced amount payable to the member for his lifetime, with the provision that after his death, his contingent annuitant shall be entitled to receive a lifetime income equal to either fifty or one hundred per cent of the reduced amount payable to the member;

(3) A reduced amount payable to the member for his lifetime, with the provision that if he shall die within either a ten or twenty-year period following the date his retirement income commences, whichever is selected by the member, the reduced amount continues to his contingent annuitant for the balance of the ten or twenty-year period; or

(4) An amount payable to the member for his lifetime, with no payments continuing after the member's death, except for a lump sum death benefit as provided in subsection (b) of section 5-168 .

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a temporary minimum shall apply whenever the Retirement Commission adopts revised factors which could result in a smaller benefit to a member than would have been payable under the previously existing factors. Such minimum shall be determined as follows: (1) The benefit the member had earned as of the date of the change in factors shall be calculated, based on his final earnings and service as of that date; (2) any early retirement reduction in such benefit shall be based upon his age, as determined on the date benefits will commence, and his type of retirement; and (3) the option factor shall be determined utilizing the factors in effect prior to such change, but based on appropriate ages as of the date benefits will commence. If such minimum results in a larger benefit, the larger benefit shall be payable.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192h — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192h
Sec. 5-192h. Election by judges.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any retired state employee who is appointed a judge and who resigns prior to retirement as a judge shall not receive a reduction in the amount of retirement income or retirement benefits that he would have received had he remained a retired state employee, including any cost of living allowances granted to retired state employees.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-264a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-264a
Sec. 5-264a. Deferred compensation plan for state employees or employees of political subdivisions of the state. Administration.
Status: in_force

(b) The State Comptroller or the officer designated by the chief executive officer of any other political subdivision is authorized to enter into such contractual agreements with employees of the state or the political subdivision, as the case may be, on behalf of the state or the political subdivision to defer any portion of that employee's compensation.

(c) The administration of the deferred compensation program shall be under the direction of the State Comptroller or the officer designated by the particular political subdivision. Payroll deductions shall be made, in each instance, by the appropriate payroll officer. The administrator of the deferred compensation program may contract with a private corporation or institution for providing consolidated billing and other administrative services with respect thereto.

(d) For the purposes of this section: “Employee” means any person, whether appointed, or elected, including members of the General Assembly, or under contract, providing services for the state or a political subdivision, for which compensation is paid; and “investment savings account” means a savings account in a state bank and trust company, national banking association, mutual savings bank, savings and loan association or federal savings and loan association or a share account in a credit union or federal credit union established to receive the deferred compensation of a state employee under the deferred compensation plan established by the State Comptroller or the officer designated by a political subdivision pursuant to this section.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, those persons designated to administer the deferred compensation program are hereby authorized to make (1) deposits or payments to such investment savings accounts, (2) payment of premiums for the purchase of fixed or variable life insurance or annuity contracts, or (3) payments for interests in investment trusts established by an organization of public employers and managed by a not-for-profit organization registered as an investment advisor under applicable federal statutes and regulations under the deferred compensation program. Such payments shall not be construed to be a prohibited use of the general assets of the state or the other political subdivision.

(f) The state may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in whole or in part, any portion of such employee's compensation and may subsequently, with the consent of the employee, contract for, purchase or otherwise procure, for the purpose of funding a deferred compensation program for such employee, shares of an investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, including equity, fixed income, short-term or money market mutual funds. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, those persons designated by the state to administer the deferred compensation program are hereby authorized to make deposits or payments to an investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, for the purchase of shares of such investment company, which shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, including equity, fixed income, short-term or money market mutual funds. Such payments shall not be construed to be a prohibited use of the general assets of the state.

(g) Upon request of a political subdivision of the state, the State Comptroller shall make available to the employees of the political subdivision the deferred compensation program provided to state employees under such additional terms and conditions as the State Comptroller may prescribe.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-188 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-188
Sec. 5-188. Retirement salary of detectives.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) Each detective who is forty-seven years of age or over and who has completed twenty years of service shall, at the time he retires or is retired in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, receive a retirement salary equal to fifty per cent of his base salary for twenty years of service as a detective, or combined service as a state policeman and a detective, and for each additional full month of service as a detective after twenty years of such service there shall be added to his retirement salary a sum equaling one-twelfth of two per cent, computed on his base salary. (2) Any detective who previously served as a state police officer and who transferred directly from the state police force to a position as a county detective or detective or chief inspector or inspector within the Division of Criminal Justice shall receive the same retirement benefits under this chapter as he would have received if he had remained a member of the state police force. (3) Retirement benefits payable under this section shall not be reduced at any time on account of a member's eligibility for or receipt of federal Social Security benefits, unless the member has previously received a refund of contributions when transferring from part A to part B pursuant to section 5-158h .

(c) A member who has completed twenty years of service as a detective, or combined service as a state policeman and a detective, but who leaves such service on or after October 1, 1982, but prior to reaching his forty-seventh birthday, shall, upon his own application, be entitled to the benefits provided in subsection (b) of this section at any time after reaching his forty-seventh birthday.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, on and after October 1, 1982, a member who has completed twenty years of service as a detective or combined service as a policeman and a detective and is thus eligible for benefits under this section shall have any other Connecticut state employment recognized in calculating the amount of his benefit.

(e) Service of a member as a sworn member of an organized police department of a municipality within this state may be counted as service as a detective for the purposes of this section if the member makes retirement contributions to the State Employees Retirement Fund of either two or five per cent, as appropriate, of his municipal salary for the period of such municipal service, plus an amount determined by the Retirement Commission as necessary to fund the increased benefits payable by reason of such purchase with interest at the rate of six and one-half per cent, compounded annually, on such payment. No credit shall be granted under this subsection for any period of service for which a retirement benefit is being paid by any governmental unit or where such grant would result in multiple service credit for the same period of service. Service credit for retirement purposes shall not be granted unless payment of contributions and interest is completed.

Cited. 234 C. 424.

Cited. 1 CA 454.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-142 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 65 / Section 5-142
Sec. 5-142. Disability compensation.
Status: in_force

(b) Each state employee who, during the performance of his duties, comes into contact with persons or animals afflicted with any communicable disease, or who comes into contact with any culture, collection or concentration of the organisms producing any communicable disease, or who is regularly exposed to the bacteria, germs, virus or other organisms, by whatever name called, producing any communicable disease, shall be given a physical examination semiannually by the state. If any such employee is found to be infected with any such disease, contracted while in the employ of the state and during the performance of such employee's duties, the state shall pay for all necessary medical and hospital expenses resulting from such disease and, if incapacity results, such employee shall be removed from the payroll the first day of incapacity and shall receive compensation at the rate of one-half the salary he was receiving at the time of infection. Such state employee may elect to receive, in addition to the benefits due him under this subsection, an amount which will result in his receiving his full salary or wages for the period of any accumulated sick leave, computed on an hourly basis, due him. Upon the expiration of such period of sick leave, the provisions of this subsection shall apply. All provisions of the workers' compensation law not inconsistent herewith, including the specific indemnities and provisions for hearing and appeal, shall be available to any such state employee or the dependents of such a deceased employee. All payments of compensation made to a state employee under this section shall be made from the fund designated “Compensation Awards to State Employees”. If a state employee has been disabled by tuberculosis at any time prior to his employment by the state or if on the first physical examination herein provided for he is found to have a tuberculous lesion, any subsequent disability from tuberculosis within five years of the commencement of such employment shall be presumed prima facie to be due to his previous infection and not to have been contracted in the course of such employment, even if such employment involved exposure to tuberculosis. In such case such state employee shall be removed from the payroll the first day of incapacity and the state shall not be liable for the payment of any resulting medical or hospital expenses or for the payment of compensation for loss of earnings of such disabled state employee.

(c) If a member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection who is not subject to the federal Insurance Contributions Act for such employment becomes or became disabled on or after July 1, 1979, and (1) the disability is not compensable under the terms of subsection (a) of this section and he elects or elected to receive disability retirement benefits under the provisions of section 5-169 or 5-192p , or (2) he elects or elected to receive such disability retirement benefits in lieu of benefits otherwise available under subsection (a) of this section, the member shall be eligible to receive benefits under the provisions of subsection (d) of this section. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the benefits granted under subsection (d) of this section shall be deemed to be federal Social Security disability benefits for purposes of calculating the maximum benefits available under the provisions of section 5-169 or 5-192p . Any disability Social Security benefits payable to or on behalf of such member shall also be recognized for purposes of calculating such maximum benefits. For the purposes of this subsection, “disability” means any medically determinable injury or physical or mental impairment which permanently prevents the discharge of normal police functions by any member of the Division of State Police, provided the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection cannot find a suitable position within the agency for such member. The determination as to whether a member is so disabled shall be made by the board of physicians established under section 5-169 . Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in section 5-169 , the maximum benefit limitation as set forth in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (g) of section 5-169 shall apply to any member receiving the new benefits provided by subsection (d) of this section.

(d) Commencing on May 8, 1984, or the date of disability, if later, each such disabled member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall receive a monthly allowance payable by the state employees retirement system, as long as the member remains so disabled, as follows: (1) To a disabled member, a monthly allowance of three hundred dollars for such disabled member's lifetime; (2) if such disabled member is married, an additional monthly allowance of two hundred fifty dollars payable to the member and payable for the member's lifetime or until the spouse's divorce from the member; (3) if there are less than three dependent children, a monthly allowance of two hundred fifty dollars payable to the member for each child until each such child reaches the age of eighteen or until the child's marriage if such occurs earlier; (4) if there are three or more dependent children, a monthly allowance of five hundred and seventy-five dollars payable to the member but deemed to be divided equally among them. As each such dependent child reaches the age of eighteen years, or marries, if such occurs earlier, the child's share shall be deemed divided equally among the remaining surviving children, provided each child's share shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars; when the shares payable on behalf of all but one of such dependent children have ceased, the disability benefit payable on behalf of the remaining child shall be two hundred fifty dollars. These benefits shall be integrated with the benefits of section 5-169 or 5-192p as if they were federal Social Security disability benefits in order to determine the maximum benefits payable to such disabled member. These benefits shall be subject to increases as provided in subsection (e) of this section. All benefits provided under this subsection shall be discontinued at the earlier of the member's recovery from disability or the member's death. If a disabled member dies, the survivor benefits provided under sections 5-146 to 5-150 , inclusive, shall be payable.

(e) On January 1, 1985, and annually thereafter, up to and including January 1, 1988, the benefits then being provided under subsection (d) of this section to a disabled member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall be increased by three per cent. Such increase shall not affect the initial level of benefits payable to a member who qualifies for such disability benefits under subsection (d) after the date of any increase under this subsection. Such benefits shall be deemed to be the cost-of-living provision of the federal Social Security disability law for purposes of calculating the maximum benefits available under the provisions of section 5-169 or 5-192p .

See Sec. 5-161(f) re retirement contributions and credit for those receiving disability compensation.

See Sec. 29-4a re disability of member of Division of State Police resulting from hypertension or heart disease.

Reactivation of tuberculosis constituted contraction of disease within meaning of statute. 138 C. 620. Cited. 175 C. 424; 220 C. 721; 221 C. 29; Id., 41.

Cited. 16 CA 65.

Subsec. (a):

Special benefits conferred by section not an obstacle to greater recovery under Sec. 31-307. 220 C. 721. Recovery of either salary benefits under section or workers' compensation benefits, including right to receive concurrent employment benefits, under Sec. 31-310 discussed. Id., 739.

Only required that claimant be in actual performance of police or guard duties, not proof that duties were themselves hazardous. 16 CA 65. “Salary” limited to base salary excluding previously paid overtime, shift differential or maintenance allowance. 29 CA 559. Workers' compensation review board properly reversed decision of workers' compensation commissioner in determining that correction officer was neither restraining an inmate nor injured by a special hazard inherent in his guard duties when inmate stepped out of shower, slipped on floor, and grabbed the officer to break his fall. 67 CA 330. A special hazard inherent in the job, for purposes of satisfying Subsec., is a heightened danger or peril that sometimes arises in performing the enumerated jobs, other than the general hazard always present in those jobs, or present in events involving the general populace. 99 CA 808. Provision allowing disabled Judicial Department employees to collect their salaries for up to 5 years does not require payment once disability is overcome or confer authority to reinstate employee who fully recovers after being separated from state service pursuant to Sec. 5-244. 144 CA 299. Memorandum of agreement between state and plaintiff's union was sufficient basis to conclude legislature had acted to prevent per diem employees such as plaintiff from accessing full salary benefits for workplace injuries. 218 CA 445.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-244 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-244
Sec. 5-244. Transfer or separation from service due to disability. Reinstatement of sick leave upon reemployment.
Status: in_force

If state employee becomes mentally or physically incapable or unfit to perform his duties, he may be dismissed. 170 C. 668. Cited. 178 C. 438.

Cited. 13 CA 477; judgment reversed, see 210 C. 214; 27 CA 635.

Nothing in section requires an independent evaluation of plaintiff by the state. 50 CS 98.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192m — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192m
Sec. 5-192m. Early retirement.
Status: in_force

(b) Each member referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall receive a monthly retirement income beginning on his retirement date equal to the benefit provided in subsection (c) of section 5-192 l based on his final average earnings and credited service at the member's retirement date, but then permanently reduced by one-half of one per cent for each month his retirement precedes his attainment of age sixty-five.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, for each member referred to in subsection (a) of this section who has completed twenty-five or more years of vesting service, the monthly retirement income shall be the greater of the amount calculated under subsection (b) of this section or (1) if retirement occurs before July 1, 1983, $200; (2) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1983, and on or before June 30, 1984, $220; (3) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1984, and on or before June 30, 1985, $240; (4) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1985, and on or before June 30, 1986, $260; (5) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1986, and on or before June 30, 1987, $280; (6) if on or after July 1, 1987, $300.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-156a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-156a
Sec. 5-156a. Funding of retirement system on actuarial reserve basis.
Status: in_force

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the Retirement Commission shall not finalize any valuation prepared pursuant to said subdivision, or certify the amount necessary to maintain the retirement fund on an actuarial reserve basis pursuant to said subdivision, until such valuation and certification account for any funds deemed to be appropriated to the State Employees Retirement Fund pursuant to subsection (c) of section 4-30a .

(b) The Retirement Commission shall determine on an actuarial basis (1) a normal rate of contribution which the state shall be required to make into the retirement fund in order to meet the actuarial cost of current service and (2) the unfunded past service liability. For the first sixteen years, the funding program for the actuarial reserve basis shall consist of the following percentages of the sum of normal cost and the amount required for a forty-year amortization of unfunded liabilities:
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-173 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-173
Sec. 5-173. Hazardous duty service.
Status: in_force

(b) On or after October 1, 1982, each such person shall receive a monthly retirement income equal to one-twelfth of (1) fifty per cent of his base salary, as defined in subsection (b) of section 5-162 , for such twenty years of service, plus (2) two per cent of his base salary for each year, taken to completed months, of Connecticut state service in excess of twenty years, except that any such person who is both a member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and a member of part B shall receive a permanently reduced retirement income upon reaching the age of sixty-five or, if earlier, upon receipt of Social Security disability benefits or, for any such state policeman, upon receipt of benefits under subsection (d) of section 5-142 . Any such state police member shall have his monthly retirement income reduced by an amount equal to one-twelfth of one per cent of four thousand eight hundred dollars multiplied by the number of years of state service, taken to completed months.

(c) Any such person who, while so employed, was granted military leave to enter the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103 , and who, upon his discharge and within ninety days, returned to such service, shall be granted retirement credit for any period of service in time of war, as defined in said section, and for military service during a national emergency declared by the President of the United States on and after September 1, 1939, toward the minimum service requirement of twenty years; and any such person may be granted credit for any such war service prior to such employment upon payment of contributions and interest computed in accordance with subsection (b) of section 5-180 , but such service shall not be counted toward the minimum service requirement of twenty years.

(d) Any such person who, after retiring from hazardous duty as designated pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or from the Division of State Police or the employ of the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Enfield-Medium, the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution, Enfield, the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire, the York Correctional Institution, the Connecticut Correctional Center, Cheshire or a community correctional center, the Whiting Forensic Hospital or the Board of Pardons and Paroles, as the case may be, is employed by any other state agency may elect to receive the retirement income to which he was entitled at the time of his retirement from such hazardous duty or as a state policeman or employee of the correctional institution or correctional center, forensic hospital or Board of Pardons and Paroles when his employment in such other agency ceases, but he shall not, in that case, be entitled to any retirement income by reason of service in such other agency except as provided in subsection (g) of this section.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any state policeman who serves as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection and whose position as commissioner or deputy commissioner is terminated, abolished or eliminated for any reason or who otherwise leaves such position and who has completed twenty years of service as a state policeman but who has not reached his forty-seventh birthday, shall be entitled to a retirement income, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.

(f) A member who has completed twenty years of hazardous duty service under this section, but who leaves such service on or after October 1, 1982, but prior to reaching his forty-seventh birthday shall, upon his own application be entitled to the benefits provided in subsection (b) of this section at any time after reaching his forty-seventh birthday.

(g) On and after October 1, 1982, an employee who has met the twenty-year minimum service requirement and is thus eligible for benefits under this section shall have any other Connecticut state employment recognized in calculating the amount of his benefits.

Cited. 230 C. 911; 234 C. 411. Plaintiff entitled to hazardous duty retirement credit under Sec. 5-192b and this section; judgment of Appellate Court in 34 CA 510 reversed. Id., 424.

Cited. 1 CA 454. “Connecticut state service”, as used in section, is limited to actual service for the state and does not include prior municipal service considered state service pursuant to Sec. 5-192b(b). 34 CA 510; judgment reversed, see 234 C. 424.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-276a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 68 / Section 5-276a
Sec. 5-276a. Timetable for negotiations between employer and designated employee organization. Mediation. Elective binding arbitration; procedure.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon the joint request of the parties, following the commencement of good faith negotiations, the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration may designate a mediator to assist the parties in continuing such negotiations and in reaching a settlement of the issues presented in such negotiations. The mediator designated shall be experienced in labor mediation and shall be drawn from lists of such mediators maintained by the board, the American Arbitration Association or the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The mediator so designated may only serve if approved by both parties.

(c) If, after a reasonable period of negotiation, or, in the case of negotiations by the parties to an existing collective bargaining agreement to revise such agreement concerning any matter affecting wages, hours and other conditions of employment, after sixty days from the commencement of such negotiations, the parties are unable to reach an agreement, both parties or either of them may initiate arbitration by filing with the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration a list of the issues as to which an impasse has been reached. If such filing is not made jointly, a copy of the filing shall be served on the other party.

(d) Within ten days of a joint filing or within ten days of service on the other party in the case of a single filing, the parties shall jointly select an arbitrator. The person selected shall have substantial, current experience as an impartial arbitrator of labor-management disputes. Persons who serve partisan interests as advocates or consultants for labor or management in labor-management relations or who are associated with or are members of a firm which performs such advocate or consultant work may not be selected. If the parties fail to agree on an arbitrator within the ten-day period, the selection shall be made using the procedures under the voluntary labor arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.

(e) (1) The arbitrator selected shall contact the parties to schedule dates and places for hearings which shall commence not later than twenty days after the selection of the arbitrator and which shall be, where feasible, in the principal locality of the state board, department, commission or agency or unit thereof involved. At least ten days prior to each such hearing, written notice of the designated time and place of such hearing shall be sent to the state employer and the state employee organization. The arbitrator shall preside over such hearings, shall have the power to take testimony, to administer oaths and to summon, by subpoena, any person whose testimony may be pertinent to the proceedings, together with any records or other documents deemed by the arbitrator to relate to such matters. In the case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the Superior Court, upon application by the arbitrator or either party, shall have jurisdiction to order such person to appear before the arbitrator to produce subpoenaed records and to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question, and any failure to obey such order may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof. The parties may, at any time during the course of the proceeding, jointly request the arbitrator to attempt to mediate any or all of the disputed issues.

(2) The hearings may, at the discretion of the parties or the arbitrator, be continued and shall be concluded within thirty days after their commencement, unless such period is extended by the joint request of the parties or by the arbitrator.

(3) Prior to the commencement of the hearings, each party shall submit to the arbitrator three copies of a list of all resolved and unresolved issues, including the party's proposal on each disputed issue. During the hearing no new issues can be considered unless such addition is mutually agreed to by the parties. Upon receipt of both such lists, the arbitrator shall simultaneously distribute a copy of each to the opposing party. Upon the hearing, each party shall present such testimony and other evidence as it deems appropriate and as the arbitrator finds relevant to the issues presented. Evidence as to each disputed issue shall be presented first by the party presenting the demand underlying such issue. At any time prior to the issuance of the award by the arbitrator, the parties may jointly file with the arbitrator stipulations setting forth such disputed issues the parties have agreed are to be withdrawn from arbitration. Within fourteen days after the conclusion of the taking of testimony, the parties may file with the arbitrator three copies of their briefs including their last best offer on each unresolved issue and, where possible, estimates of the costs of resolution of each disputed issue. Immediately upon receipt of both briefs or upon the expiration of the time for filing such briefs, whichever is sooner, the arbitrator shall distribute a copy of each such brief to the opposing party. Within seven days after receipt of the opposing briefs on the disputed issues or within seven days after the expiration of the time for filing such briefs, whichever is sooner, the parties may file with the arbitrator three copies of a reply brief, responding to the briefs on the unresolved issues. Immediately upon receipt of both reply briefs or upon the expiration of the time for filing such briefs, whichever is sooner, the arbitrator shall distribute a copy of each such brief to the opposing party.

(4) Within twenty days after the last day for filing reply briefs, the arbitrator shall file with the secretary of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration the award on each unresolved issue as well as the issues resolved by the parties during the arbitration proceedings. The arbitrator shall immediately and simultaneously distribute a copy thereof to each party. In making such award, the arbitrator shall select the more reasonable last best offer proposal on each of the disputed issues based on the factors in subdivision (5) of this subsection. The arbitrator (A) shall give a decision as to each disputed issue considered, (B) shall state with particularity the basis for such decision as to each disputed issue and the manner in which the factors enumerated in subdivision (5) of this subsection were considered in arriving at such decision, (C) shall confine the award to the issues submitted and shall not make observations or declarations of opinion which are not directly essential in reaching a determination, and (D) shall not affect the rights accorded to either party by law or by any collective bargaining agreement nor in any manner, either by drawing inferences or otherwise, modify, add to, subtract from or alter such provisions of law or agreement. If the day for filing any document under this subsection falls on a day which is not a business day of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, then the time for filing shall be extended to the next business day of the board.

(5) The factors to be considered by the arbitrator in arriving at a decision are: The history of negotiations between the parties including those leading to the instant proceeding; the existing conditions of employment of similar groups of employees; the wages, fringe benefits and working conditions prevailing in the labor market; the overall compensation paid to the employees involved in the arbitration proceedings, including direct wages compensation, overtime and premium pay, vacations, holidays and other leave, insurance, pensions, medical and hospitalization benefits, food and apparel furnished and all other benefits received by such employees; the ability of the employer to pay; changes in the cost of living; and the interests and welfare of the employees.

(6) The award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the employer and the designated employee organization unless rejected by the legislature as provided in section 5-278 , except that a motion to vacate or modify the arbitrator's decision concerning any issue in such award may be filed in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford within thirty days following receipt of such award. Such motion to vacate or modify shall identify the specific issue or issues in the award which the court is being asked to vacate or modify. Any decision by the arbitrator on issues that are not subject to a motion to vacate or modify shall be final and binding upon the parties. The court, after hearing, may vacate or modify the arbitrator's decision concerning the award or any issue in the award only if the court finds that substantial rights of a party have been prejudiced because such award is: (A) In violation of constitutional provisions; (B) in excess of the statutory authority of the arbitrator; (C) made upon unlawful procedure; (D) affected by other error of law; (E) clearly erroneous in view of the reliable, probative and substantial evidence of the whole record; or (F) arbitrary or capricious or characterized by abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion.

(7) The secretary of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall serve as staff to the arbitrator for purposes of all proceedings undertaken pursuant to this subsection.

(f) The arbitrator's fees and itemized expenses, the rental, if any, of the facilities used for the hearing and the cost of the transcript, if any, of the proceedings shall be divided equally between the employer and the designated employee organization.

(g) Any or all of the timing requirements established in this section that are imposed upon the parties may be waived by agreement of the parties or by a ruling of the arbitrator following a timely request by any party. Any or all of the timing requirements established in this section that are imposed upon the arbitrator may be waived by agreement of the parties.

Cited. 226 C. 670.

Cited. 20 CA 676.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-225 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-225
Sec. 5-225. Notice of final earned ratings on examinations. Right of inspection. Appeals.
Status: in_force

Provides exception within purview of Sec. 1-19(a). 214 C. 312.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-248i — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-248i
Sec. 5-248i. Telecommuting and work-at-home programs.
Status: in_force

(b) Any employee of a state agency may be authorized either by the head of such state agency or, for any employee of the legislative branch, by the executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management, or his or her designated representative, to participate in a telecommuting or work-at-home assignment. Approval of such assignment may be granted only where it is determined to be in compliance with the guidelines developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Any assignment shall be on a temporary basis only, and may be terminated as required by agency operating needs. Each state agency shall provide the Department of Administrative Services with a copy of any telecommuting or work-at-home program arrangement that it authorizes for any employee of such agency.

(c) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall include in the annual report required under section 5-204 the extent of use by employees of the programs provided pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-197 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-197
Sec. 5-197. Offices in state service to be classified; exceptions.
Status: in_force

All services rendered by the state are not subject to the state personnel act. 166 C. 757. Cited. 176 C. 1.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-181b — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-181b
Sec. 5-181b. Continuation of membership during service as elected official.
Status: in_force

(b) Any member of tier II of the state employees' retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, during the time he so serves, but no longer than ten years, to continue his membership in said system. Any such member shall be ineligible for membership in any other state or municipal retirement system during such time.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-154 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-154
Sec. 5-154. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) “Covered under Social Security” means, with regard to a state employee, that the state is required to make contributions for the employee under the Social Security Agreement;

(b) “Federal Insurance Contributions Act” means the chapter of the federal Internal Revenue Code officially cited by that name, 26 USC (IRC 1939) § 1400 et seq., 26 USC (IRC 1986) § 3100 et seq., as originally enacted and as amended from time to time;

(c) “For retirement purposes” means for the purposes of the state employees retirement system;

(d) “Member” means a member of the state employees retirement system;

(e) “Retirement Commission” means the State Employees Retirement Commission;

(f) “Retirement contributions” means contributions made by, or deducted from the salary of, a member in accordance with part III or part IV of this chapter;

(g) “Retirement system” means the state employees retirement system;

(h) “Salary” means (1) any payment, including longevity payments and payments for accrued vacation time under section 5-252 , for state service made from a payroll submitted to the Comptroller; and (2) the cash value of maintenance furnished by the state; and (3) fees received from the state in whole or in part in lieu of or in addition to item (1) above and established to the satisfaction of the Retirement Commission, to the extent that the employee has made retirement contributions on such fees; and (4) compensation paid by the United States to state employees who are employees of the United States Purchasing and Finance Office; and (5) compensation paid to employees of the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-208a , any state employee who is employed by more than one state agency during any week shall, for compensation earned on and after January 1, 1983, have all such compensation recognized for all purposes of the retirement program;

(i) “Social Security” means the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System under Title II of the Social Security Act;

(j) “Social Security Act” means the federal act officially cited by that name, 42 USC § 301 et seq., as originally enacted and as amended from time to time;

(k) “Social Security Agreement” means the agreement between the state and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as modified from time to time, entered into under the terms of Section 218 of the Social Security Act;

(l) “State employee” means a person in state service, either appointive or elective;

(m) “State service” is service with the state, either appointive or elective, for which a salary is paid, subject to the following rules: (1) “State service” includes time lost from state service because of a disability incurred in the performance of state service; (2) “state service” includes service before September 1, 1939, of a member who began to make such member's retirement contributions before September 1, 1941, and has made contributions for all such member's salary received from September 1, 1939, to such member's retirement date; (3) “state service” includes service as a member of the General Assembly or as an employee of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, or of any officer or committee thereof; (4) “state service” excludes any month of otherwise eligible service on or after September 1, 1939, for which the full required retirement contribution, including any required interest thereon, has not been made by or for the member; (5) “state service” excludes all periods of otherwise eligible service before the date on which a member elects to receive a return of such member's retirement contributions, unless the member has thereafter returned such contributions with interest, as provided in subsection (a) of section 5-167 ; (6) “state service” includes a period equivalent to accrued vacation time for which payment is made under section 5-252 ; (7) any teacher, as defined in section 10-183b , in state service who is employed for a full academic year, equivalent to ten months' credited service, shall be deemed to be employed for the entire year. Any such teacher who has completed the work obligations of such teacher's appointment period and who retires after May first, but before September first, shall receive, upon retirement, credit for the entire appointment year and the remaining biweekly payments due for the entire appointment year, together with any amounts held back previously; (8) “state service” includes service as an employee of a state-aided institution as defined in section 5-175 and service as a vending stand operator as defined in section 5-175a ; (9) “state service” includes service as an employee of the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies; (10) “state service” includes service on and after January 1, 1999, and on or before June 15, 2012, as an employee of the Capital City Economic Development Authority established by section 32-601 ; (11) “state service” includes service as an employee of the Capital Region Development Authority;

(n) “Year of state service” means any period of twelve consecutive calendar months of state service, but no month shall be counted in more than one such year;

(o) “Actuarial reserve basis” means a basis under which the liabilities of the retirement system are determined using actuarial assumptions, tables and methods and under which assets are accumulated under a program designed to achieve a balance between the accumulated assets and the liabilities of the system;

(p) “Funding” means the accumulation of assets in advance of the payment of retirement allowances in accordance with a definite actuarial program;

(q) “Normal cost” means the amount of contribution which the state is required to make into the retirement fund in order to meet the actuarial cost of current service;

(r) “Unfunded liability” means the actuarially determined value of the liability for service before the date of the actuarial valuation less the accumulated assets in the retirement fund;

(s) “Amortization of unfunded liabilities” means a systematic program of payment for the unfunded liabilities over a period of years in lieu of a payment in one sum;

(t) “Current service” means service rendered in the current fiscal year;

(u) “Alternate retirement program” means any retirement program authorized by the State Employees' Retirement Commission pursuant to subsection (c) of section 5-155a ;

(v) “Participant” means eligible employees in higher education who elect to participate in an alternate retirement program.

A citation in this chapter to a specific provision of the Social Security Act or other federal law includes a citation, where appropriate, to the same or similar provision as appearing in prior or successor law.

Cited. 218 C. 729; 234 C. 424; 238 C. 146.

Cited. 34 CA 510; judgment reversed, see 234 C. 424.

Former statute cited. 17 CS 280.

Subsec. (m):

Appellate Court erred in adding dollar figure of plaintiffs' unused vacation time to their respective salaries for their final year of state service; Subsec. makes no distinction between meaning of “state service” for purpose of calculating length of service under Sec. 5-162(a) and for purpose of calculating base salary under Sec. 5-162(b)(2); had legislature intended for accrued vacation time to be treated as a credit to state service it would have expressed that intent explicitly. 284 C. 149.

Although by statute a period equivalent to accrued vacation time is included in definition of state service, that statute does not limit calculation of the salary that plaintiffs were entitled to have factored into their retirement income. 92 CA 712.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-145a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 65 / Section 5-145a
Sec. 5-145a. Hypertension or heart disease in certain university, aeronautics, State Capitol police, correction, mental health, criminal justice or hazardous duty personnel.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 29-4a re death or disability of member of Division of State Police resulting from heart disease or hypertension.

Cited. 170 C. 410; 175 C. 424. Section provides rebuttable presumption of compensability, but does not, without further evidence, include heart disease or hypertension as an occupational disease pursuant to workers compensation law. 266 C. 728.

Cited. 37 CA 835. State police trooper employed by Department of Public Safety does not have an election of remedies as between this section and Sec. 29-4a; rather, trooper must proceed under Sec. 29-4a. 70 CA 321. Burden is on employer to demonstrate that plaintiff's condition or disease was caused by factors outside plaintiff's employment. Id.

Presumption of hypertension lies only where preemployment, physical examination fails to reveal any evidence of hypertension or heart disease. 31 CS 75.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-156h — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-156h
Sec. 5-156h. Limitation on amount of retirement income for certain members not subject to terms of collective bargaining agreement.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, each state employee first hired by the state on or after July 1, 2016, who is a member of the state employees retirement system and whose state employment is not subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, shall not be entitled to receive any retirement income in excess of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars per year during the period for which such member receives retirement income, regardless of the years of vesting service or other requirements of such member's retirement plan such member has completed at the time of retirement.

(2) If such member's retirement income is calculated to be more than one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars per year at the time of the member's retirement, or if such member's retirement income after any cost-of-living adjustment becomes more than one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars per year, the amount of such member's retirement income shall be reduced to one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars per year, and such member shall not be entitled to any further cost-of-living adjustment.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-266a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-266a
Sec. 5-266a. Political activities of classified state employees and Judicial Department employees. Candidacy for office. Leave of absence or resignation upon taking elective office.
Status: in_force

(b) A person employed in said classified service or Judicial Department retains the right to vote as he chooses and to express his opinions on political subjects and candidates and shall be free to participate actively in political management and campaigns. Such activity may include but shall not be limited to, membership and holding of office in a political party, organization or club, campaigning for a candidate in a partisan election by making speeches, writing on behalf of the candidate or soliciting votes in support of or in opposition to a candidate and making contributions of time and money to political parties, committees or other agencies engaged in political action, except that no such employee shall engage in such activity while on duty or within any period of time during which such employee is expected to perform services for which he receives compensation from the state, and no such employee shall utilize state funds, supplies, vehicles, or facilities to secure support for or oppose any candidate, party, or issue in a political partisan election. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, any person employed in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department may be a candidate for a state or municipal office, in any political partisan election. No person seeking or holding municipal office or seeking state office in accordance with the provisions of this subsection shall engage in political activity or in the performance of the duties of such office while on state duty or within any period of time during which such person is expected to perform services for which such person receives compensation from the state. The Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board shall establish by regulation definitions of conflict of interest which shall preclude persons in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department from holding elective office.

(c) Any person employed in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department who leaves such service to accept a full-time elective municipal office shall be granted a personal leave of absence without pay from his state employment for not more than two consecutive terms of such office or for a period of four years, whichever is shorter. Upon reapplication for his original position at the expiration of such term or terms of office, such person shall be reinstated in his most recent state position or a similar position with equivalent pay or to a vacancy in any other position such person is qualified to fill. If no such positions are available, such person's name shall be placed on all reemployment lists for classes in which he has attained permanent status. Any person employed in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department who accepts an elective state office shall resign from such employment upon taking such office. In either event, such person shall give notice in writing to his appointing authority that he is a candidate for a state elective office or a full-time elective municipal office within thirty days after nomination for that office.

Cited. 192 C. 399.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-221 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-221
Sec. 5-221. Rejection of applicants.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner may establish reasonable procedures concerning investigation of the character, reputation, experience and training of applicants.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-249 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-249
Sec. 5-249. Leave for volunteer fire, ambulance, civil air patrol, specialized disaster relief and canine search and rescue services.
Status: in_force

(2) Any state employee who is an active member of the civil air patrol, as defined in section 28-17a , (A) may, with the authorization of such employee's appointing authority, be permitted to leave work in order to respond to an emergency, natural disaster or life-threatening event during such employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulation, or (B) shall be permitted to respond to such emergency, natural disaster or life- threatening event prior to reporting for work without such prior authorization and without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulation, provided in either case, if requested by such employee's appointing authority, such employee submits a written statement from the civil air patrol verifying that such employee responded to an emergency, natural disaster or life-threatening event and specifying the date, time and duration of such response.

(b) Any state employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American Red Cross may, with the authorization of such employee's supervisor, be granted a leave not to exceed fifteen working days in each year to participate in specialized disaster relief services for the American Red Cross, upon the request of the American Red Cross, without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulation.

(c) (1) Any state employee who is an active volunteer firefighter or member of a volunteer ambulance service or company may, with the authorization of such employee's appointing authority, be allowed to attend training sessions or drills during such employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, overtime accumulation or sick leave.

(2) Any state employee who is an active member of the civil air patrol may, with the authorization of such employee's appointing authority, be allowed to attend required emergency services training programs and exercises during such employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, overtime accumulation or sick leave.

(d) Any state employee who is an active member of a volunteer canine search and rescue team (1) may, with the authorization of such employee's supervisor, be permitted to leave work in order to respond to search or rescue calls during such employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulation, or (2) shall be permitted to respond to such calls prior to reporting for work without such prior authorization and without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulation, provided in either case, if requested by such employee's supervisor, such employee submits a written statement from the chief of the police or fire department verifying that such employee responded to a search or rescue call and specifying the date, time and duration of such response. As used in this subsection, “volunteer canine search and rescue team” means an individual and a dog (A) appropriately trained and certified to engage in search and rescue operations by a nonprofit canine search and rescue organization that is a member of the National Association of Search and Rescue, or its successor organization, and (B) who jointly engage in such operations at the request of a police or fire department and provide services without compensation.

(e) (1) Any state employee who is an active volunteer firefighter and is injured on or after January 1, 2014, while serving in his or her capacity as a volunteer firefighter, shall be permitted to collect sick leave with pay for such injury pursuant to section 5-247 , provided (A) such employee is eligible to receive such sick leave pay pursuant to the provisions of said section, (B) if requested by such employee's appointing authority, such employee submits a written statement from the chief of the volunteer fire department that such employee was injured during a fire call and specifying the date, time and nature of such injury, and (C) the amount of weekly sick leave pay received for such injury plus any weekly workers' compensation wage replacement benefits received pursuant to section 7-314a or 7-314b for such injury shall not exceed the weekly workers' compensation wage replacement benefits such employee would have received had such employee been injured in the course of his or her employment as a state employee. A state employee's collection of sick leave pursuant to this subsection shall not affect the seniority or accrual of pension benefits of such state employee. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to preempt or override the terms of any collective bargaining agreement effective prior to July 1, 2015.

(2) Any state employee who is an active member of the civil air patrol and is injured on or after October 1, 2019, while serving in his or her capacity as a member of the civil air patrol, shall be permitted to collect sick leave with pay for such injury pursuant to section 5-247 , provided (A) such employee is eligible to receive such sick leave pay pursuant to the provisions of said section, and (B) if requested by such employee's appointing authority, such employee submits a written statement from the civil air patrol that such employee was injured during an emergency, natural disaster or life-threatening event and specifying the date, time and nature of such injury.

See Sec. 4-58a re mutual aid fire pacts between state institutions and municipalities.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-230 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-230
Sec. 5-230. Working test periods.
Status: in_force

Notification to plaintiff of decision to drop her communicated the day after termination of 6-month working test period sufficient. 157 C. 126. Cited. 170 C. 541; 174 C. 271; 176 C. 1.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-200 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-200
Sec. 5-200. State personnel and employment policies. Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Administrative Services. Regulations. Personnel administration services for municipalities or other political subdivisions of the state.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner shall review position classifications in accordance with subsection (c) of section 5-206 .

(c) The commissioner shall cause to be kept for the classified service suitable records of (1) regulations adopted under this chapter, (2) classifications of positions, occupational groups, career progression levels and schedules of compensation provided for under this chapter, (3) standards for examining qualifications and measuring service, (4) examinations conducted and candidate and reemployment lists established, and (5) provisional and temporary appointments and other official acts.

(d) The commissioner shall prescribe procedures for reports to be submitted to him.

(e) The commissioner shall establish and maintain a complete roster of the employees and officers in the state service, whether under the classified service or not, showing for each such employee the title of the position held, his departmental, agency or institution assignment, rate of compensation, date of appointment and each change in his status, including any increase and decrease in pay, change in title, transfers or other facts which the commissioner considers desirable and pertinent.

(f) The commissioner shall prescribe reasonable conditions and procedures under which the records of the Department of Administrative Services shall be open to public inspection during usual business hours, except as provided in section 5-225 . He shall take all due precautions to prevent the securing in advance by any unauthorized person of any material to be used in any examination under this chapter, unless such material is available for all applicants. Statements of the former employers of applicants shall be considered confidential and shall not be open to inspection by any person.

(g) The commissioner and his agents shall have free access to premises and records under the control of all officers, appointing authorities and other state employees during usual business hours and shall be furnished such facilities, assistance and information as he and his agents require in carrying out their functions. This subsection shall not apply to the medical records of state employees, unless the employee gives his consent or unless the information sought is necessary to assure adjudication of any responsibility on the part of the state or unless medical interpretations of preemployment and other examinations are requested by the commissioner.

(h) (1) The commissioner shall, after completion of all established preliminary procedures necessary to prepare new and revised regulations, print and provide current and complete personnel regulations to all state agencies and to recognized state employee organizations. (2) New and revised regulations prepared as the result of legislative changes or development of new policies shall be processed in accordance with established procedures within a period of time not less than six months from their effective date and distributed in the same manner.

(i) The commissioner may designate any two or more of his staff to serve as a hearing panel with respect to any matter before the commissioner. The commissioner and any hearing panel shall have the power to make investigations, inquiries and hold hearings. Any such panel shall report and may submit recommendations to the commissioner but shall have no other power except as otherwise specified in this chapter.

(j) The commissioner shall adopt, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, such regulations as the commissioner may find necessary or appropriate for the administration of personnel pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(k) The commissioner shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, establish compensation schedules or plans pertaining to all state employees except employees of the Judicial and Legislative Departments and employees whose compensation is prescribed by statute. The commissioner shall prescribe higher compensation for work performed under less desirable conditions or at less desirable hours.

(l) The commissioner shall establish classes of positions, occupational groups and career progression levels for all state employees holding positions in the classified service.

(m) The commissioner shall maintain current compensation schedules pertaining to all employees specified in subsection (k) of this section and a comprehensive plan of position classifications pertaining to all employees specified in subsection (l) of this section.

(n) Any interested employee or his representative or any appointing authority may submit to the commissioner written data, views or arguments or a request for a hearing in regard to specified position classifications or allocation of a class of positions to the compensation schedule. Within two months after the commissioner shall have received such data, views or arguments or shall have held any requested hearing, he shall forward to such employee, representative or appointing authority his written decision thereon, together with all written materials submitted to him by the interested employee or his representative and such other information as he considers appropriate.

(o) The commissioner may at any time establish, abolish, divide or combine classes of positions and allocation of classes of positions to the compensation schedule. Any such action having a fiscal impact must be approved by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The commissioner may at any time, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, amend or repeal any portion of any compensation schedule. The commissioner need not conduct any investigation or hearing prior to any such action.

(p) When such authority is not otherwise conferred by statute, the commissioner shall issue orders to provide that (1) executive or judicial department employees exempt from the classified service or not included in any prevailing bargaining unit contract, except unclassified employees of any board of trustees of the constituent units of higher education, be granted rights and benefits not less than those granted to employees in the classified service or covered under such contracts, or (2) retirement benefits for state employees exempt from the classified service or not included in any prevailing bargaining unit contract be adjusted to provide retirement benefits for such employees which are the same as those most frequently provided under the terms of approved bargaining unit contracts in effect at the time of such adjustment. When such authority is not otherwise conferred by statute, the board of trustees of any constituent unit of the state system of higher education may issue orders to provide that the unclassified employees of such board be granted rights and benefits not less than those granted to employees of the board who are covered under a prevailing bargaining unit contract. Where there is a conflict between an order granting such rights and benefits and any provision of the general statutes, such order shall prevail. Such orders shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. If the secretary approves such order, and such order is in conflict with any provision of the general statutes, the secretary shall forward a copy of such order to the joint committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of labor matters.

(q) Commencing November 1, 1989, elected officials and employees in the legislative department and elected officials in the executive department shall be granted rights and benefits equal to those granted to employees in the classified service covered under a prevailing collective bargaining agreement negotiated in accordance with subdivision (1) of subsection (f) of section 5-278 .

(r) When requested by the appropriate appointing authority, the commissioner shall establish classes of positions for employees holding positions in the unclassified service and shall establish compensation schedules pertaining to employees of the Judicial and Legislative Departments, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.

(s) The commissioner and any municipality or other political subdivision of the state may enter into an agreement whereby the Department of Administrative Services shall provide such personnel administration services as may be requested by such municipality or political subdivision. Such agreement shall provide for the payment by such municipality or political subdivision, to the commissioner, of expenses incurred in the provision of such personnel services. All payments received by the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the General Fund and credited to the appropriations of the Department of Administrative Services in accordance with the provisions of section 4-86 .

(t) Any matters involving collective bargaining shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.

Cited. 165 C. 448; 239 C. 638; 240 C. 246.

Subsec. (k):

Cited. 226 C. 670.

Subsec. (o):

Cited. 226 C. 670.

Subsec. (p):

Cited. 226 C. 670.

Subsec. (r):

Cited. 226 C. 670.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192nn — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66a / Section 5-192nn
Sec. 5-192nn. Retirement provisions applicable to certain employees of state-aided institutions. Early retirement incentive program.
Status: in_force

(b) Any individual employed by Newington Children's Hospital, the American School for the Deaf or the Connecticut School for the Blind on or before December 31, 1992, who subsequently retires and receives benefits from the state employees retirement system shall be eligible for coverage under the group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plans procured by the Comptroller pursuant to section 5-259 . When an individual who qualifies for coverage under this subsection dies, his contingent annuitant and the dependents of his contingent annuitant shall each be entitled to coverage under the state's group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plans, provided each was a dependent for health insurance purposes of the retiree on his date of death.

(c) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 66 or subsection (f) of section 5-278 , any member of the state employees retirement system who was a permanent full-time employee on April 1, 1992, of Newington Children's Hospital, the American School for the Deaf or the Connecticut Institute for the Blind shall be eligible to receive the incentive years set forth in subsection (d) of this section, provided: (1) He retires on an early or normal retirement on July 1, 1992, following his submission of a retirement application to the Retirement Commission; and (2) he has completed at least ten years of service for retirement purposes, composed of employment at a state-aided institution specified in subsection (a) of section 5-175 or actual state service or any combination thereof, prior to the effective date of his retirement, exclusive of the incentive years described in subsection (b) of this section, and has attained age fifty-two on or before July 1, 1992. In no event shall the early retirement incentive program be available to: (A) Applicants for disability retirement; or (B) members whose employment at Newington Children's Hospital, the American School for the Deaf or the Connecticut Institute for the Blind terminated earlier than June 30, 1992.

(d) A member who meets the eligibility requirements of subsection (c) of this section shall have three incentive years added to his service credit for retirement purposes, provided if the applicant on the date of either early or normal retirement has not attained age fifty-five, the portion of the three years necessary to reach age fifty-five will be added to the member's age with the remainder applied to his service credit. The additional service credit shall be considered actual full-time state service for all purposes under chapter 66 except for the calculation of the salary used to compute the retirement benefit.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-168 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-168
Sec. 5-168. Death benefit–beneficiaries.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon the death of a member after his retirement date, provided such retirement date is prior to August 1, 1986, the beneficiary named by the member shall receive a death benefit equal to the excess of the member's retirement contributions plus interest over the sum of: (1) The income payments made to the member from the State Employees Retirement Fund on or before June 30, 1971, and (2) thirty per cent of the income payments made to the member after June 30, 1971, but on or before June 30, 1973, from the State Employees Retirement Fund and (3) twenty-five per cent of the income payments made to the member after June 30, 1973, from the State Employees Retirement Fund. Upon the death of a member after his retirement date, provided such retirement date is on or after August 1, 1986, the beneficiary shall receive a death benefit equal to the member's retirement contributions plus interest reduced by the federal tax exclusion ratio times the income payments made to the member from the State Employees Retirement Fund.

(c) A member may name a beneficiary to receive any death benefit which may become due on or after his death. If he names more than one person as beneficiary, all such persons living on the due date of a death benefit payment shall be considered cobeneficiaries and shall receive equal shares of the payment unless the member provides otherwise. Any named beneficiary may be changed by the member from time to time. No consent of any beneficiary is required for any change of beneficiary.

(d) A member may name or change his beneficiary by written request filed with the Retirement Commission. Such request shall be effective on the date it is signed by the member, whether or not the member is living when such request is received by the Retirement Commission, but without prejudice to the state because of any payments made by the state before receipt of such request by the Retirement Commission.

(e) A death benefit payment shall be made to the estate of a member if, on the date the death benefit payment is due, no beneficiary has been duly named by the member or no named beneficiary is alive; provided, if the death benefit is less than one thousand dollars, the Comptroller may, upon the advice of the Retirement Commission, pay such death benefit as provided in section 45a-273 .

(f) Retroactive Social Security taxes deducted from contributions previously made by a member because of the retroactive effective date of the Social Security Agreement shall be excluded in determining the amount of any payment under this section.

(g) For the purposes of this section, if such death occurs on or after October 1, 1982, the value of the member's retirement contribution shall include interest credited from January 1, 1982, or the first July first following the date of actual contribution, whichever is later, to the July first coincident with or preceding the date of death of the member or the date the employee left state service, whichever is earlier. Such interest shall be credited at the rate of five per cent per year. In addition, for the partial year during which the employee dies, interest shall be credited at the rate of five-twelfths of one per cent multiplied by the number of months completed during that year, such interest rate to be applied to the value of contributions including any prior interest credits as of the first day of that year.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-259 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-259
Sec. 5-259. Hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan. Eligibility. Coverage for other groups under plan. Municipal Employee Health Insurance Plan. Prescription drug purchasing by nonstate public employers.
Status: in_force

(b) The insurance coverage procured under subsection (a) of this section for active state employees, employees of the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies, anyone receiving benefits from any such state-sponsored retirement system and members of the General Assembly, who are over sixty-five years of age, may be modified to reflect benefits available to such employees or members pursuant to Social Security and medical benefits programs administered by the federal government, provided any payments required to secure such benefits administered by the federal government shall be paid by the Comptroller either directly to the employee or members or to the agency of the federal government authorized to collect such payments.

(c) On October 1, 1972, the Comptroller shall continue to afford payroll deduction services for employees participating in existing authorized plans covering state employees until such time as the employee elects in writing to be covered by the plan authorized by subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the state shall pay for a member of any such state-sponsored retirement system, or a participant in an alternate retirement program who meets the service requirements of section 5-162 or subsection (a) of section 5-166 , and who begins receiving benefits from such system or program on or after November 1, 1989, eighty per cent of the portion of the premium charged for his individual coverage and eighty per cent of any additional cost for his form of coverage. Upon the death of any such member, any surviving spouse of such member who begins receiving benefits from such system shall be eligible for coverage under this section and the state shall pay for any such spouse eighty per cent of the portion of the premium charged for his individual coverage and eighty per cent of any additional cost for his form of coverage.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, vending stand operators eligible for membership in the state employees retirement system pursuant to section 5-175a shall be eligible for coverage under the group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plans procured under this section, provided the cost for such operators' insurance coverage shall be paid by the Department of Aging and Disability Services from vending machine income pursuant to section 17a-818 .

(f) The Comptroller, with the approval of the Attorney General and of the Insurance Commissioner, shall arrange and procure a group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan or plans for any person who adopts a child from the state foster care system, any person who has been a foster parent for the Department of Children and Families for six months or more, and any dependent of such adoptive parent or foster parent who elects coverage under such plan or plans. The Comptroller may also arrange for inclusion of such person and any such dependent in an existing group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan offered by the state. Any adoptive parent or foster parent and any dependent who elects coverage shall pay one hundred per cent of the premium charged for such coverage directly to the insurer, provided such adoptive parent or foster parent and all such dependents shall be included in such group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan. A person and his dependents electing coverage pursuant to this subsection shall be eligible for such coverage until no longer an adoptive parent or a foster parent. An adoptive parent shall be eligible for such coverage until the coverage anniversary date on or after whichever of the following occurs first, the date on which the child: Becomes covered under a group health plan through the dependent's own employment; or attains the age of twenty-six. As used in this section “dependent” means a spouse or natural or adopted child if such child is wholly or partially dependent for support upon the adoptive parent or foster parent.

(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Probate Court Administration Fund established in accordance with section 45a-82 , shall pay for each probate judge and each probate court employee not more than one hundred per cent of the portion of the premium charged for the judge's or employee's individual coverage and not more than seventy per cent of any additional cost for the judge's or employee's form of coverage. The remainder of the premium for such coverage shall be paid by the probate judge or probate court employee to the State Treasurer. Payment shall be credited by the State Treasurer to the fund established by section 45a-82 . The total premiums payable shall be remitted by the Probate Court Administrator directly to the insurance company or companies or nonprofit organization or organizations providing the coverage. The Probate Court Administrator shall issue regulations governing group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance pursuant to subsection (b) of section 45a-77 .

(h) For the purpose of subsection (g) of this section, “probate judge” or “judge” means a duly elected probate judge who works in such judge's capacity as a probate judge at least twenty hours per week, on average, on a quarterly basis and certifies to that fact on forms provided by and filed with the Probate Court Administrator, on or before the fifteenth day of April, July, October and January, for the preceding calendar quarter; and “probate court employee” or “employee” means a person employed by a probate court for at least twenty hours per week.

(i) The Comptroller may provide for coverage of employees of municipalities, nonprofit corporations, community action agencies and small employers and individuals eligible for a health coverage tax credit, retired members or members of an association for personal care assistants under the plan or plans procured under subsection (a) of this section, provided: (1) Participation by each municipality, nonprofit corporation, community action agency, small employer, eligible individual, retired member or association for personal care assistants shall be on a voluntary basis; (2) where an employee organization represents employees of a municipality, nonprofit corporation, community action agency or small employer, participation in a plan or plans to be procured under subsection (a) of this section shall be by mutual agreement of the municipality, nonprofit corporation, community action agency or small employer and the employee organization only and neither party may submit the issue of participation to binding arbitration except by mutual agreement if such binding arbitration is available; (3) no group of employees shall be refused entry into the plan by reason of past or future health care costs or claim experience; (4) rates paid by the state for its employees under subsection (a) of this section are not adversely affected by this subsection; (5) administrative costs to the plan or plans provided under this subsection shall not be paid by the state; (6) participation in the plan or plans in an amount determined by the state shall be for the duration of the period of the plan or plans, or for such other period as mutually agreed by the municipality, nonprofit corporation, community action agency, small employer, retired member or association for personal care assistants and the Comptroller; and (7) nothing in this section or section 12-202a , 38a-551 or 38a-556 shall be construed as requiring a participating insurer or health care center to issue individual policies to individuals eligible for a health coverage tax credit. The coverage provided under this section may be referred to as the “Municipal Employee Health Insurance Plan”. The Comptroller may arrange and procure for the employees and eligible individuals under this subsection health benefit plans that vary from the plan or plans procured under subsection (a) of this section. Notwithstanding any provision of part V of chapter 700c, the coverage provided under this subsection may be offered on either a fully underwritten or risk-pooled basis at the discretion of the Comptroller. For the purposes of this subsection, (A) “municipality” means any town, city, borough, school district, taxing district, fire district, district department of health, probate district, housing authority, regional workforce development board established under section 31-3k , regional emergency telecommunications center, tourism district established under section 32-302 , flood commission or authority established by special act, regional council of governments, transit district formed under chapter 103a, or the Children's Center established by number 571 of the public acts of 1969; (B) “nonprofit corporation” means (i) a nonprofit corporation organized under 26 USC 501 that has a contract with the state or receives a portion of its funding from a municipality, the state or the federal government, or (ii) an organization that is tax exempt pursuant to 26 USC 501(c)(5); (C) “community action agency” means a community action agency, as defined in section 17b-885 ; (D) “small employer” means a small employer, as defined in section 38a-564 ; (E) “eligible individuals” or “individuals eligible for a health coverage tax credit” means individuals who are eligible for the credit for health insurance costs under Section 35 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, in accordance with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (F) “association for personal care assistants” means an organization composed of personal care attendants who are employed by recipients of service (i) under the home-care program for the elderly under section 17b-342 , (ii) under the personal care assistance program under section 17b-605a , (iii) in an independent living center pursuant to sections 17a-792 to 17a-794 , inclusive, or (iv) under the program for individuals with acquired brain injury as described in section 17b-260a ; and (G) “retired members” means individuals eligible for a retirement benefit from the Connecticut municipal employees' retirement system.

(j) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the existing rights and obligations of state employee organizations and the state employer under current law and contract shall not be impaired by the provisions of this section. (2) Other conditions of entry for any group into the plan or plans procured under subsection (a) of this section shall be determined by the Comptroller upon the recommendation of a coalition committee established pursuant to subsection (f) of section 5-278 , except for such conditions referenced in subsection (g) of this section. (3) Additional determinations by the Comptroller on (A) issues generated by any group's actual or contemplated participation in the plan or plans, (B) modifications to the terms and conditions of any group's continued participation, (C) related matters shall be made upon the recommendation of such committee. (4) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a municipal employer and an employee organization may upon mutual agreement reopen a collective bargaining agreement for the exclusive purpose of negotiating on the participation by such municipal employer or employee organization in the plan or plans offered under the provisions of this section.

(k) The Comptroller shall submit annually to the General Assembly a review of the coverage of employees of municipalities, nonprofit corporations, community action agencies, small employers under subsection (i) of this section and eligible individuals under subsection (i) of this section beginning February 1, 2004.

(l) (1) Effective July 1, 1996, any deputies or special deputies appointed pursuant to section 6-37 of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to 1999, or section 6-43 , shall be allowed to participate in the plan or plans procured by the Comptroller pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such participation shall be voluntary and the participant shall pay the full cost of the coverage under such plan.

(2) Effective December 1, 2000, any state marshal shall be allowed to participate in the plan or plans procured by the Comptroller pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such participation shall be voluntary and the participant shall pay the full cost of the coverage under such plan.

(3) Effective December 1, 2000, any judicial marshal shall be allowed to participate in the plan or plans procured by the Comptroller pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such participation shall be voluntary and the participant shall pay the full cost of the coverage under such plan unless and until the judicial marshals participate in the plan or plans procured by the Comptroller under this section through collective bargaining negotiations pursuant to subsection (f) of section 5-278 .

(m) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Comptroller shall begin procedures to convert the group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plans set forth in subsection (a) of this section, including any prescription drug plan offered in connection with or in addition to such insurance plans, to self-insured plans, except that any dental plan offered in connection with or in addition to such self-insured plans may be fully insured.

(2) The Comptroller may enter into contracts with third-party administrators to provide administrative services only for the self-insured plans set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection. Any such third-party administrator shall be required under such contract to charge such third-party administrator's lowest available rate for such services.

(3) (A) (i) The Comptroller shall offer nonstate public employers the option to purchase prescription drugs for their employees, employees' dependents and retirees under the purchasing authority of the state pursuant to section 1 of public act 09-206*, subject to the provisions of subparagraph (E) of this subdivision.

(ii) For purposes of this subdivision, “nonstate public employer” means (I) a municipality or other political subdivision of the state, including a board of education, quasi-public agency or public library, as defined in section 11-24a , or (II) the Teachers' Retirement Board.

(B) The Comptroller shall establish procedures to determine (i) the eligibility requirements for, (ii) the enrollment procedures for, (iii) the duration of, (iv) requirements regarding payment for, and (v) the procedures for withdrawal from and termination of, the purchasing of prescription drugs for nonstate public employers under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision.

(C) The Comptroller may offer to nonstate public employers that choose to purchase prescription drugs pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this subdivision the option to purchase stop loss coverage from an insurer at a rate negotiated by the Comptroller.

(D) Two or more nonstate public employers may join together for the purpose of purchasing prescription drugs for their employees, employees' dependents and retirees. Such arrangement shall not constitute a multiple employer welfare arrangement, as defined in Section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

(E) (i) The Comptroller shall offer nonstate public employers the option to purchase prescription drugs through the plan set forth in the State Employees' Bargaining Agent Coalition's collective bargaining agreement with the state only if the Health Care Cost Containment Committee, established in accordance with the ratified agreement between the state and said coalition pursuant to subsection (f) of section 5-278 , has indicated in writing to the Comptroller that allowing such nonstate public employers such option is consistent with said coalition's collective bargaining agreement.

(ii) Such writing shall not be required if the Comptroller establishes a separate prescription drugs purchasing plan for nonstate public employers.

(iii) Nonstate public employers that purchase prescription drugs pursuant to this subdivision shall pay the full cost of their own claims and prescription drugs.

*Note: Section 1 of public act 09-206 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.

See Secs. 3-123aaa to 3-123hhh, inclusive, re partnership plan administered by Comptroller.

See Sec. 38a-476b re coverage for psychotropic drugs.

See Sec. 38a-564 re exclusion of municipalities from definition of “small employer”.

Cited. 213 C. 54. Plaintiff's claim that the state acted in excess of statutory authority when it received and retained proceeds from demutualization of insurance company that provided health benefits to state employees under section because state was not entitled to the proceeds under the plan of conversion does not fall within the “excess of statutory authority” exception to the doctrine of sovereign immunity; claim that section was violated is meritless, because statutory language does not imply that the legislature had a specific intent that the proceeds from demutualization would be distributed to individual employees. 296 C. 186.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-264 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-264
Sec. 5-264. Section 403(b) annuities for state employees. Purchase of shares of an investment company for state employees. Section 403(b) annuities for employees of political subdivisions.
Status: in_force

(b) The Comptroller, on behalf of an employee described in subsection (a) of this section, may enter into a written agreement with such employee for the purchase of shares of an investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, including equity, fixed income, short-term or money market mutual funds. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Comptroller may make deposits or payments to an investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, for the purchase of shares of such investment company, which shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, including equity, fixed income, short-term or money market mutual funds. Such payments shall not be construed to be a prohibited use of the general assets of the state.

(c) Upon request of a political subdivision of the state, the State Comptroller shall make available to the employees of the political subdivision the annuity program authorized in accordance with the provisions of Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, provided to state employees under such additional terms and conditions as the State Comptroller may prescribe.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192p — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192p
Sec. 5-192p. Disability retirement.
Status: in_force

(b) A member is disabled for the first twenty-four months if he is permanently unable to continue to render the service in which he has been employed. Disability retirement continues thereafter only if such member is totally disabled for any suitable and comparable job.

(c) The member who is eligible for disability retirement shall receive a monthly retirement income of one-twelfth of one and one-third per cent of final average earnings, plus one-half of one per cent of final average earnings in excess of the year's breakpoint, the sum multiplied by the greater of the credited service he would have at age sixty-five if he continued to work until that age, but limited to a maximum of thirty years, or his credited service earned to date of disability retirement.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, the following maximum benefit limitation shall apply. In order to verify the operation of the maximums, it shall be a condition precedent to receipt of any disability benefits under this section that a member authorize the Social Security Administration to provide the Retirement Commission, on an ongoing basis, any information with regard to covered earnings or Social Security benefits payable. In the event both of the maximums indicated below apply, the lesser disability benefit shall be payable. Such maximums shall be subject to reexamination annually, as indicated in subsection (e) of this section.

(1) The disability benefit provided under this subsection shall not exceed (A) one hundred per cent of the member's final average earnings or the rate of salary of the member on date of disability, whichever is greater, less (B) any periodic cash benefit payments being made to a member under the Workers' Compensation Act, less (C) any federal disability Social Security benefits both primary and family paid on account of the member's Social Security earnings history, less (D) all outside earned salary or wages unless the Retirement Commission determines that such salary or wages are being paid as part of the rehabilitation of the disabled member. Any such determination that such earned salary or wages is for rehabilitation must be reapproved by the Retirement Commission no less frequently than every eighteen months, or the offset shall apply. The offset for workers' compensation and federal Social Security disability benefits shall apply when such benefits commence even if such benefits initially commence after the member's disability retirement date.

(2) The disability benefit provided under this subsection shall not exceed (A) eighty per cent of the greater of the member's final average earnings or the rate of salary of the member on the date of disability, less (B) any periodic cash benefit payments being made to a member under the Workers' Compensation Act, less (C) any federal disability Social Security benefits, both primary and family being paid on account of the member's Social Security earnings history. The offsets shall apply when such benefits commence even if such benefits initially commence after the member's disability retirement date.

(3) The offsets for workers' compensation and federal Social Security disability benefits shall be reduced by the amount of any attorney's fees a member incurs to obtain such benefits.

(e) As of each anniversary date of such retired employee, as provided in section 5-192s , the benefits provided under this section shall be subject to the following adjustments:

(1) The benefits provided in subsection (c) of this section shall be subject to the increase provided in section 5-192s ;

(2) The net maximum benefit provided in subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of this section shall be subject to the increase provided in section 5-192s ;

(3) This subdivision shall apply only to the maximum benefit provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of this section which shall only be considered if the member has outside earned salary or wages. The salary as described in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of this section shall be increased by the percentage compensation increase that would have applied to an employee in the position and “step” of the member at the date of disability had that employee continued to be employed and continued automatic progression to the maximum “step” for his classification. On the date of recomputation of the benefits, the offsets for workers' compensation and federal Social Security shall be increased by the lesser of that same percentage or the percentage increase granted under the cost-of-living provision of the Workers' Compensation Act and the Social Security Act respectively. This offset amount shall be adjusted to reflect any change in these benefits other than those resulting from the cost-of-living provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act. In no case will the offset be greater than the actual benefits paid. Outside earned salary or wages shall reflect actual amounts earned during the preceding calendar year. In no event shall the application of this subdivision and subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of this section result in an income from all sources that would be less than the income that would have been paid had the member remained in state service and progressed to the maximum “step” for his classification;

(4) Except as specifically indicated in the preceding subdivision (3) of this subsection, the maximum disability income determined under subsection (d) of this section will not be affected, when the workers' compensation benefits or the Social Security benefits are increased by cost-of-living provisions in the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act; and

(5) The maximum disability income under subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of this section will be recalculated if either the workers' compensation benefits or the Social Security benefits are decreased or discontinued. Any such recalculated maximum shall not reflect any increases arising after the initial application of the offset because of the cost-of-living provisions in the Workers' Compensation Act or the Social Security Act except as specifically indicated in subdivision (3) of this subsection.

(f) The board of physicians appointed pursuant to section 5-169 shall be utilized for purposes of determination of any applicant's entitlement.

(g) No reconsideration of a decision concerning eligibility for a disability retirement allowance or the prior discontinuance of such allowance shall be made by the board unless a member, upon application to the board for a redetermination, discloses additional facts concerning his condition at the date of termination of employment or at the time of discontinuance as appropriate.

(h) Retirement income being paid for disability retirement shall be discontinued if the member recovers from such disability prior to reaching what would have been his normal retirement date. In such event, such member shall receive credit for both vesting and credited service purposes for the years he was disabled, subject to a maximum total credit of thirty years or actual years of service to date of disability, whichever is greater. Unless such member has been reemployed, he shall then be deemed to have retired on normal or early retirement, if eligible, or retain a vested right to a deferred pension, if eligible.

(i) If a member is entitled to disability compensation under section 5-142 such member shall continue to earn vesting service and credited service, provided such member has not retired. After retirement, if benefits continue to be payable under section 5-142 , the disability retirement benefits under this section shall be payable only if larger. In such event, the benefits under this section shall be temporarily reduced by the amount of benefits payable under section 5-142 for the period of receipt of benefits under section 5-142 .

See Sec. 18-101e re calculation of disability retirement income for correction officers upon designation of extraordinary circumstances.

Benefits paid pursuant to section are in the nature of retirement benefits and not disability benefits. 262 C. 746. Re distribution under Sec. 46b-81, retirement benefit attributable to years of service constitutes marital property while benefits attributable to disability suffered after marriage was dissolved do not constitute marital property. 292 C. 597.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-218 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-218
Sec. 5-218. Examinations; notices.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall give public notice of such examinations for positions in the classified service at least six business days in advance by posting, or causing to be posted, an appropriate notice on the Internet web site of the department and by submitting the notice to the director of the state employment service. Such notice shall set forth the time and place of the examination and shall be accompanied by a copy of the official description of the position, and provide the work location, salary and weights to be given for the weighted parts of the examination, if applicable, provided once such notice has been given, the weights established in the notice for the weighted parts of the examination shall not be altered in any manner.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-192f — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-192f
Sec. 5-192f. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) “Year's breakpoint” means, with respect to the calendar year in which occurs a member's last severance from service date, ten thousand seven hundred dollars increased by six per cent each year after 1982, rounded to the nearest multiple of one hundred dollars.

(b) “Final average earnings” means the average covered earnings of a member for his three years of credited service affording the highest such average, disregarding any general temporary reduction or any reduction or nonpayment for illness or other absence which does not exceed ninety days.

(c) “Covered earnings” means the annual salary, as defined in subsection (h) of section 5-154 , received by a member in a year, limited by one hundred thirty per cent of the average of the two previous years' covered earnings. The limit does not apply to earnings for calendar years before 1984, nor for the first three full or partial calendar years of employment. The Retirement Commission may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 determining the procedures to be followed when the member was not employed on a full-time basis for the entire two previous years used to develop such limit.

(d) “Hazardous duty member” means a member who is a state policeman in the active service of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, who is engaged in guard or instructional duties at the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Enfield-Medium, the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution, Enfield, the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire, the York Correctional Institution, the Connecticut Correctional Center, Cheshire or the community correctional centers, who is an employee of the Whiting Forensic Hospital or its predecessor institutions with direct and substantial patient contact, who is a detective, chief inspector or inspector in the Division of Criminal Justice or chief detective, who is employed as a correctional counselor, correctional counselor supervisor, parole officer or parole supervisor or in a comparable job classification by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, or who has been designated as a hazardous duty member pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

(e) “Tier I plan” means the plan set out in sections 5-157 to 5-192d , inclusive.

(f) “Tier II plan” means the plan set out in sections 5-192e to 5-192x , inclusive.

(g) “State employment” means employment with state-aided institutions, any position in state government, including any position funded wholly or partially by the federal government, and any other employment which, prior to January 1, 1984, would have resulted in coverage under the tier I plan. All references to “state” shall include such positions and employment.

(h) “Severance from service date” means an employee's date of retirement, death, resignation or termination for cause from the state, or except as otherwise provided in section 5-192i , the first anniversary of the first day of a period in which he remains absent from service, without pay, with the state, for any reason other than retirement, death, resignation or termination for cause, whichever is earlier.

Cited. 234 C. 424.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-280 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 68 / Section 5-280
Sec. 5-280. Payment of dues to exclusive representative required.
Status: in_force

(b) Employers and employee organizations are authorized to negotiate provisions in a collective bargaining agreement calling for the payroll deduction of employee organization dues and initiation fees and for payroll deduction of the service fee described in subsection (a) of this section.

Subsec. (a):

Plaintiff failed to sustain its burden of proof on damages with respect to permissible purposes of collective bargaining contract administration and grievance procedure. 38 CS 629.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-275 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 68 / Section 5-275
Sec. 5-275. Employee organization designated as exclusive representative. Bargaining unit determination. Petitions seeking clarification or modification of existing units.
Status: in_force

(b) The board shall determine the appropriateness of a unit which shall be the public employer unit or a subdivision thereof. In determining the appropriateness of the unit, the board shall: (1) Take into consideration, but shall not limit consideration to, the following: (A) Public employees must have an identifiable community of interest, and (B) the effects of overfragmentation; (2) not decide that any unit is appropriate if (A) such unit includes both professional and nonprofessional employees, unless a majority of such professional employees vote for inclusion in such unit, or (B) such unit includes both Department of Correction employees at or above the level of lieutenant and Department of Correction employees below the level of lieutenant; (3) take into consideration that when the state is the employer, it will be bargaining on a state-wide basis unless issues involve working conditions peculiar to a given governmental employment locale; (4) permit the faculties of (A) The University of Connecticut, (B) the Connecticut State University System, and (C) the Technical Education and Career System to each comprise a separate unit, which in each case shall have the right to bargain collectively with their respective boards of trustees or their designated representatives; and (5) permit the community college faculty and the technical college faculty as they existed prior to July 1, 1992, to continue to comprise separate units, which in each case shall have the right to bargain collectively with its board of trustees or its designated representative. Nonfaculty professional staff of the above institutions may by mutual agreement be included in such bargaining units, or they may form a separate bargaining unit of their own. This section shall not be deemed to prohibit multiunit bargaining.

(c) An employee organization or an employer may file a petition with the board seeking a clarification or modification of an existing unit. The power of the board to make such clarifications and modifications shall be limited to those times when a petition for clarification or modification is filed by either an employee organization or an employer. No petition seeking a clarification or modification of an existing unit shall be considered to be timely by the board during the term of a written collective bargaining agreement, except that a petition for clarification or modification filed by an employee organization concerning either (1) a newly created position or (2) any employee who is not represented by an employee organization, may be filed at any time.

Cited. 183 C. 235.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-247 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-247
Sec. 5-247. Sick leave. Credit on reemployment. Collection of benefits while otherwise employed on full-time basis prohibited.
Status: in_force

(b) Any state employee who resigns from state service in good standing and who is reemployed within one year from the date of his resignation shall be credited with the amount of sick leave accrued to his credit on the effective date of his resignation.

(c) Sick leave accruals earned by employees in the unclassified service, in accordance with administrative practice or internal departmental regulations similar to those governing the classified service, prior to June 30, 1967, and which can be verified by written attendance records and which have not been used, remain to the credit of such employees for use for the purpose for which they were granted or for payment on retirement, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, as the case may be.

(d) Any state employee who is collecting sick leave benefits under the provisions of this section shall not be otherwise employed on a full-time basis during the sick leave period. Sick leave benefits shall be denied for any day, during such period, on which any such employee performs full-time employment for another employer. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the procedures of chapter 54, to enforce the requirements of this subsection.

Subsec. (a):

Cited. 179 C. 184. Hourly calculation of sick leave authorized by section may not operate to reduce the total number of days of sick leave that an employee has earned and consequently plaintiffs were entitled to the number of days of sick leave previously earned, despite an increase in the number of hours in their standard work day. 249 C. 693.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-143 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 65 / Section 5-143
Sec. 5-143. Applicability of Workers' Compensation Act. Additional sick leave compensation.
Status: in_force

Cited. 175 C. 424; 185 C. 616; 220 C. 721.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-180 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-180
Sec. 5-180. Military service.
Status: in_force

(b) The war service before September 1, 1939, of a veteran who became a member after September 1, 1939, and the war service or military service during a national emergency declared by the President of the United States on and after September 1, 1939, of a veteran who became a member at any time, shall be counted as state service if the member makes retirement contributions for each month of war service as defined in section 27-103 and described in subdivision (28) of section 5-196 , or for each month of such service during a national emergency, as the case may be. Any veteran who becomes a member on or after July 1, 1975, shall not receive credit for such war or military service if such member has received or is entitled to receive any retirement allowance for the same years of such service from the federal government. Any veteran who is a member and who has not made application for such credit prior to July 1, 1975, shall not receive credit for such service if such member has received or is entitled to receive any retirement allowance for the same years of such service from the federal government unless such member makes application for such credit to the Retirement Commission on or before October 1, 1975, and makes retirement contributions for each month of such service in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. The Comptroller of the state may notify each employee of this provision on or before September 1, 1975. Such contributions shall equal one-twelfth of four per cent of his first year's salary as a state employee multiplied by the total number of months of such war service or national emergency service and, if such employee became a member after April 1, 1958, shall be accompanied by interest at four per cent per year from the time such war service was rendered or from September 1, 1939, whichever is later, until the date of payment or January 1, 1962, whichever is earlier. Such contributions may be paid by payroll deductions as determined by the Retirement Commission over a period not to exceed thirty-six months, interest thereon to be paid not later than the last day of the month following the payment of the last of such deductions. Service credit for retirement purposes shall not be granted unless payment of contributions and interest is completed. No credit shall be given hereunder for military service during a national emergency to any state employee who has served less than ten years as a permanent full-time state employee, nor for any such military service beyond a total period of his compulsory service, if any, plus three years.

(c) A member who leaves state service for the sole purpose of entering the armed forces of the United States may make his retirement contributions while in the armed forces in the monthly amount he was making immediately before he left state service. Such contributions shall be deducted from any salary payable to the member during his absence. Alternately, if no salary was payable to him, he may make such contributions after his return to state service, with interest thereon at five per cent per year from a date six months after he left the armed forces, provided he shall make application for return to state service within ninety days after he has received a certificate for satisfactory service from the armed forces. No contributions may be made, however, at any time for service in the armed forces beyond a total period of his compulsory service therein, if any, plus three years.

Cited. 138 C. 445; 234 C. 424.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-259d — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-259d
Sec. 5-259d. Continuation of health insurance coverage and accrual and use of vacation and sick time, leave of absence and equivalent leave time for state employees called to active service in the armed forces.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any public or special act, the state shall continue to provide coverage, under a group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan sponsored by the state under section 5-259 , for the dependents of any state employee and the state employee who is a member of the armed forces of any state or of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States and who has been called to active service in the armed forces of any state or the United States for a military operation, war or national emergency, for the duration of such call-up to active service, provided such state employee and dependents were covered by the insurance plan on the date the state employee was called to active service and the state employee continues to pay any amount that the employee was required to pay for coverage before being called to active service. Any payment required to be made by the employee for coverage under this subsection may be deducted from compensation provided under subsection (c) of this section. The state shall reimburse any state employee who has paid premiums for the continuation of any such group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan between the date such state employee was called to active service and November 20, 2001. The reimbursement shall be in the amount of the state's portion of the premiums so paid.

(c) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any public or special act, any state employee who is a member of the armed forces of any state or of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States and who has been called to active service in the armed forces of any state or the United States for a military operation, war or national emergency, shall continue to accrue all vacation time, equivalent leave time and sick time to which the employee would be entitled if he or she had continued working in his or her state position during the time of such active service, and shall be credited with such accrued vacation time, equivalent leave time or sick time, except that if the accrual of such vacation time, equivalent leave time or sick time pursuant to this subsection while on active service would cause the employee to exceed any limit on leave time pursuant to any provision of the general statutes, the regulations of Connecticut state agencies or a collective bargaining agreement, the limit shall be temporarily waived to allow the employee to use the excess leave time before the later of the following: (1) From the date of the state employee's discharge from active service until the state employee returns to state employment, (2) not later than one hundred twenty calendar days after the state employee returns to state employment, (3) not later than one hundred twenty calendar days after the state employee is credited with such excess leave time, or (4) for state employees in teaching or professional positions in Unified School District #1 established pursuant to section 18-99a within the Department of Correction who were credited with equivalent leave time pursuant to this section, not later than one year after the employee is credited with such excess leave time. The employee shall be entitled to a leave of absence with pay as provided in section 27-33 from the date on which the employee was called to active service. After the expiration of such leave of absence with pay, the state employee shall receive part pay for the duration of such call-up to active service if the compensation received by the state employee for such active service is less than the employee's base rate of pay, plus longevity, in the employee's primary position. The state employee shall not be required to exhaust accrued vacation time, equivalent leave time or sick time in order to be eligible for the paid leave of absence and part pay under this subsection. As used in this section, “equivalent leave time” means leave time classified as other than vacation time or sick time and includes, but is not limited to, leave time classified as recess rather than vacation time.

(d) No state employee shall be deemed ineligible for any benefit under this section or under any other provision of this chapter solely because such employee's leave time is classified as recess or other equivalent leave time rather than vacation time pursuant to the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement, including a collective bargaining agreement covering a state employee in a teaching, instructional or professional position in Unified School District #1 or #2 or, prior to July 1, 2014, Unified School District #3.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-219a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-219a
Sec. 5-219a. Volunteer experience considered.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 4-61ii et seq. re volunteers in state government.

See Sec. 4-61mm re annual evaluation of volunteer program.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-160 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-160
Sec. 5-160. Eligibility.
Status: in_force

(b) Each officer elected by the people and each appointee of such officer exempt from the classified service may elect to become a member, effective on the first day of the pay period following the date his election is received by the Retirement Commission.

(c) Except for such members as elected to remain or be reinstated as members of the state employees retirement system under section 5-166a , members of the judiciary eligible for retirement under the provisions of section 51-50 or 51-50a and members of the Teachers' Retirement Association not in state service are not eligible for membership in the state retirement system.

(d) Each other state employee appointed to a position exempt from the classified service, except positions funded in whole or in part by the federal government as part of any public service employment program, on-the-job training program or work experience program, shall become a member on the first day of the pay period following the date he has completed six months in such position, provided he has elected no other Connecticut retirement plan.

(e) Each person who has been in state service since September 1, 1939, and who is not a member may elect to become a member, effective on the first day of the pay period following the date his election is received by the Retirement Commission.

(f) A temporary, emergency or provisional employee may elect to become a member, effective on the first day of the pay period following the date his election is received by the Retirement Commission. At any time not later than the date six months after his membership becomes mandatory under subsection (a) or (d) of this section, such employee may elect to make retirement contributions for his salary received during the period, not in excess of twelve months, prior to the effective date of his membership, without interest. Such contributions shall be paid within six months after his membership becomes mandatory.

(g) Any teacher in state service required as a condition of his employment to hold an appropriate certificate of qualification issued by the State Board of Education under the provisions of section 10-145a and any teacher or professional staff member employed by the Board of Regents for Higher Education or any of the constituent units shall elect membership either in the retirement system or the teachers' retirement system subject to the provisions of section 10-183p , provided on or after October 1, 1975, any such employee who is appointed to a position which makes him eligible for membership in an alternate retirement program as authorized by subsections (u) and (v) of section 5-154 , sections 5-156 and 5-158f and this subsection, and who elects such membership, shall not be required to become a member of the state employees retirement system or the Teachers' Retirement Association. Each such teacher shall be notified of the above option when he accepts his employment. If any such teacher shall not have made an election within one month after employment, he shall be deemed to have elected membership in the state employees retirement system. In the administration of this section, the board of trustees of the institution or unit employing the teacher and said board shall each perform, for the persons employed by it, the duties prescribed by chapter 167a for boards of education and the chief administrative officer of such institution, unit or board shall perform those prescribed in said chapter for the superintendent of schools.

(h) Transfers between the state employees and teachers' retirement systems will continue to be permitted until the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, no transfers between the state employees retirement system, and either the Teachers' Retirement Association or an alternate retirement program shall be permitted after such date, except in the case of an employee who has had a bona fide change in employment. Such employee shall be eligible to transfer between systems only if such change is either (1) to a position where participation in the Teachers' Retirement Association or an alternate retirement program is permitted and such employee had not previously made such an election or (2) to a position where participation in the Teachers' Retirement Association or an alternate retirement program is not permitted and such employee was participating in one of those systems. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-175b , any such transferee shall receive credit for service rendered which is creditable in the system to which he is transferring as of June 28, 1985, upon payment of the required employee contributions plus required interest as provided in such system.

(i) Each state employee who first joins the state employees retirement system after January 1, 1984, shall have his eligibility and membership determined under part V of this chapter. A state employee who rejoins the state employees retirement system after January 1, 1984, shall become a member of tier II if section 5-192e so indicates; otherwise such employee shall become a member of tier I. Any state employee hired on or after July 1, 1982, and on or before July 1, 1984, shall be eligible to make a one-time election for membership in either the tier I or the tier II plan. Such election shall be made by January 2, 1984, or within ninety days after beginning such employment, or by the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985, whichever is later. Any individual making such an election may receive credit for service on or after July 1, 1982, under terms utilized for other service credits.

(j) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to members of collective bargaining units subject to the terms of the collective bargaining pension agreement approved by the General Assembly on June 30, 1982, to members of collective bargaining units adopting such terms in other collective bargaining agreements and to members of the state employees retirement system who are excluded from collective bargaining and to whom such terms have been extended by administrative action. All other persons shall receive those benefits to which they are entitled under the provisions of this chapter, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1983.

(k) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (j) of this section, each state employee collective bargaining unit which has not accepted the terms of such pension agreement before July 7, 1983, shall have its dispute with the state employer over pension issues submitted to the American Arbitration Association for arbitration. The dispute shall be arbitrated by a single member of the association, selected in accordance with the standard procedures of the association. The arbitration proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with the standard procedures of the association which do not conflict with the provisions of this subsection. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding on both parties, except that the decision shall be submitted to the legislature for approval or rejection pursuant to the provisions of section 5-278 in the same manner as agreements are submitted under said section. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the arbitrator from endeavoring to mediate the dispute for which he has been selected. The parties may continue to negotiate the disputed pension issues and may reach an agreement at any time prior to the issuance of the arbitrator's decision. If such an agreement is reached, the arbitration proceedings shall terminate.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-248 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-248
Sec. 5-248. Leaves of absence. Reinstatement upon withdrawal of resignation.
Status: in_force

(b) Any employee who shall enter the armed forces as specified in section 5-255 shall be entitled to a leave of absence without pay for the time served in such service, plus ninety additional days.

(c) Any full-time permanent employee in the state service who is a member of the armed forces of the state or of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States and is required to perform ordered military training therein shall, for not more than fifteen days per year of such military training, be entitled to a leave of absence with pay in addition to the employee's annual vacation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any such employee from attending ordered military training while on regularly scheduled vacation if such employee so desires.

(d) Any full-time permanent employee in the state service who qualifies to be a member of a team recognized by the United States Olympic Committee shall, upon written application and with the approval of the employee's appointing authority, be entitled to a leave of absence with pay, and with such employee's position held, for a period not exceeding ninety days after so qualifying in order to compete in Olympic games sponsored by the International Olympic Committee.

(e) When any employee has been on authorized leave of absence without the employee's position being held and is ready to report for duty when a position is available, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall refer the name of the employee to an appointing authority for possible reinstatement to a position in a class in which the employee has attained permanent status. The employee may be reinstated at the discretion of the appointing authority, provided no other employee has rights to the position pursuant to subsection (b) of section 5-241 .

(f) Any agency may reinstate, without examination, any employee who has resigned in good standing and has withdrawn such employee's resignation within one year to positions in classes in which such employee has attained permanent status. A classified employee with at least five years of state service appointed to an unclassified position may be granted a leave of absence without pay from the classified service by the Commissioner of Administrative Services for such length of time as such classified employee shall hold such appointive position, except that no such leave of absence shall exceed two consecutive years unless such classified employee requests and is granted a renewal of such leave of absence by the commissioner.

Cited. 170 C. 541.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-263b — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-263b
Sec. 5-263b. Award Program for state employees reporting alleged state agency gross waste of funds. Calculation of award. Ineligible suggestions.
Status: in_force

(1) “State employee” means any employee in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government, including employees in the classified and unclassified service and full-time and part-time employees;

(2) “State agency” means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution, constituent unit of the state system of higher education, technical education and career school or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government;

(3) “Gross waste of funds” means more than a merely debatable expenditure that is significantly out of proportion to the benefit reasonably expected to accrue to the government and includes, but is not limited to, gross mismanagement; and

(4) “Gross mismanagement” means a management action or inaction which creates a substantial risk of significant adverse impact upon the agency's ability to accomplish its mission, and excludes de minimis wrongdoing or negligence.

(b) There is established a program to award state employees who make a suggestion (1) concerning a practice that is an alleged gross waste of funds in the state agency where such employee is employed to the state agency suggestion coordinator, (2) that is subsequently implemented by the agency, and (3) that results in cost savings to the agency. Not later than November 1, 2019, each state agency shall designate an existing employee within the agency to serve as the state agency suggestion coordinator, who shall not be eligible to participate in the program established under this section. Any state employee other than a state agency suggestion coordinator or agency or department head may make a written suggestion to the agency's state agency suggestion coordinator concerning an alleged gross waste of funds. The state agency suggestion coordinator shall review any suggestion received to determine whether the suggestion is eligible for consideration under this section and shall submit any eligible suggestions to the executive head of the state agency, or a designee, for consideration.

(c) If the agency implements the employee's suggestion, not later than a calendar year after such implementation, the agency shall determine the cost savings attributable to such implementation and submit its calculations to the Auditors of Public Accounts for verification. Once verified by the Auditors of Public Accounts, the agency shall make a lump-sum payment to the employee using the funds of the division or department within the agency that benefited from the cost savings. Such award shall be equivalent to five per cent of the state agency's estimated cost savings for the first calendar year after implementing the employee's suggestion and remedying the reported wasteful practice, provided such award shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. Any award under this section shall not be added to the employee's base salary for purposes of calculating the employee's retirement income but shall be subject to the tax imposed by chapter 229.

(d) If an employee retires or leaves state service after making a suggestion under this section that is subsequently implemented, the executive head of a state agency shall make a lump sum award to such former employee. If the employee is deceased, the award shall be made to such deceased employee's estate.

(e) If a suggestion is submitted jointly by more than one employee, the award shall be shared equally among the employees. If the same suggestion is submitted separately by two or more employees, the first suggestion received shall be eligible for the full amount of the award.

(f) Any suggestion that involves the following shall not be eligible for an award under this section: (1) Deferred maintenance or replacement of essential equipment and supplies; (2) individual employee compensation or position classification; (3) personal grievances or complaints; (4) suggestions that require a change to, or that conflict with, federal or state law; (5) suggestions already submitted by another employee; (6) matters resulting from an agency audit, study, survey, review or research; (7) suggestions that involve correcting a condition that exists because established procedures are not being followed; (8) suggestions that constitute opinions only, and which cannot be supported by demonstrating a better idea, and the need for same; (9) suggestions concerning any matter subject to collective bargaining; (10) suggestions circumventing competitive procurement procedures provided by state law or policy; (11) suggestions which recommend or require formal studies, surveys, investigation or similar research activity to establish the benefits of a suggestion referred to; (12) suggestions which are hypothetical, vague, based on inconclusive justification or deal with generalities; (13) suggestions concerning the structure of lottery games conducted by the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, including, but not limited to, game design, prize patterns, draw dates and draw frequency; (14) any suggestion made by the agency suggestion coordinator or agency or department head; (15) suggestions concerning a practice that is an alleged gross waste of funds that the suggesting employee participated in committing; and (16) any suggestion resulting in less than ten thousand dollars in estimated savings to the agency.

(g) Any suggestion made under this section shall be a public record, as defined in section 1-200 .

See Sec. 4-67f(b) re awards to employees presenting innovative ideas for improvements in agency operations or reductions in agency costs.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-208 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-208
Sec. 5-208. Compensation schedules.
Status: in_force

(b) When the compensation of a class is raised, the salary of each incumbent in such class who is not a member of any collective bargaining unit shall be increased by an amount at least equal to one step or five per cent, whichever is less, in the higher salary grade, except managerial employees' salaries shall be increased by an amount equal to five per cent, up to the maximum of the new salary grade.

Cited. 240 C. 246.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-240 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-240
Sec. 5-240. Reprimand, suspension, demotion, dismissal. Layoffs. Notice period pay. Use of tax return information in certain proceedings.
Status: in_force

(b) An appointing authority, subject to any regulations issued by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, may demote an employee in the classified service under the appointing authority's jurisdiction from a position in any given class or grade to a position in a lower class or grade. The appointing authority shall give the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or the secretary's designated representative written notice of the authority's intention to effect any such demotion not less than two weeks before the date it is intended to become effective. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may transfer such an employee whose record is otherwise satisfactory to a position under the jurisdiction of another appointing authority, with the approval of such other appointing authority.

(c) An appointing authority may dismiss any employee in the classified service when the authority considers the good of the service will be served thereby. A permanent employee shall be given written notice of such dismissal at least two weeks in advance of the employee's dismissal, except as hereinafter provided, and a copy of the same shall be filed with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or the secretary's designated representative. Such notice shall set forth the reasons for dismissal in sufficient detail to indicate whether the employee was discharged for misconduct, incompetence or other reasons relating to the effective performance of the employee's duties and shall be prepared in such form and given in such manner as the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management prescribes. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may provide by regulation for the waiving of advance notice in cases of serious misconduct by an employee affecting the public, the welfare, health or safety of patients, inmates or state employees or the protection of state property. Such regulation shall provide for written notice to a permanent employee who has attained permanent status and shall not preclude whatever rights any employee may have to appeal. The name of any such employee dismissed for incompetence or other reasons relating to the effective performance of the employee's duties shall be immediately removed from the eligible list in the office of the Commissioner of Administrative Services. No appointing authority shall pay any dismissed employee notice period pay or any other separation pay at a rate that exceeds the dismissed employee's rate of compensation, at the time of dismissal, for two weeks, or the amount of notice period provided for in an applicable collective bargaining agreement.

(d) An appointing authority, subject to any regulations issued by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, may lay off any employee in the classified service as provided in section 5-241 .

(e) (1) As provided in subsection (b) of section 12-15 , the Commissioner of Revenue Services may, subject to such terms and conditions as said commissioner may prescribe, disclose return or return information, as defined in said section 12-15 , in connection with a personnel proceeding, including any administrative or judicial proceedings related thereto, involving an employee or former employee of the Department of Revenue Services, if said commissioner determines that such information is relevant and material to such proceeding. If such return or return information is relevant and material to such proceeding, the commissioner shall, upon request made by the employee or former employee who is the subject of such proceeding, disclose such return or return information to such employee or former employee, or the collective bargaining agent for such employee or former employee, regardless of whether the commissioner introduces or otherwise relies upon such return or return information during the course of the proceeding. Return and return information disclosed under this subsection shall be used only for purposes of and to the extent necessary in such proceeding and shall not be further disclosed by any person involved in such proceeding.

(2) Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

State employee may be dismissed for misconduct, incompetence or other reason relating to effective performance of duties. 170 C. 668. State must use this procedure to dismiss classified employee after working test period under Sec. 5-230 has expired. 174 C. 271. Cited. 176 C. 1; 177 C. 344; 194 C. 601; 228 C. 106.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-235 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-235
Sec. 5-235. Provisional, temporary, emergency and intermittent appointments.
Status: in_force

(b) When, by reason of the pressure of work, an appointing authority determines that an extra position in the classified service should be temporarily established for a period of not more than six months, such appointing authority shall so notify the commissioner, stating the cause therefor, the probable length of time the extra position will be required, the duties to be performed and the salary to be paid. When, in the judgment of the commissioner such an extra position should be established, the commissioner shall authorize the temporary appointment of a qualified person, with or without competitive examinations. Temporary appointments to extra positions shall, as far as practicable, be made from reemployment and candidate lists. No such appointments shall be authorized for a period of more than six months and such appointments shall not be renewed within any fiscal year.

(c) An appointing authority or any subordinate authorized by him, to facilitate the carrying on of public business or avoid loss or serious inconvenience to the public, when an emergency arises which will not permit the securing of eligible persons, may appoint any qualified person during such emergency for a period of not more than two months. Persons so appointed shall be known as emergency employees. Appointing authorities shall report to the commissioner all emergency appointments and such appointments shall not be renewed.

(d) The commissioner may establish unskilled and semiskilled positions, as described in section 5-233 , or, by competitive examination, candidate lists of eligible persons who are available for employment on an intermittent basis and either the administrator of the Unemployment Compensation Act or the Commissioner of Revenue Services may appoint persons to such positions or from such lists to perform intermittent services as may be required. Persons so employed shall be known as intermittent employees and shall be compensated on an hourly rate basis as prescribed by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Intermittent employees shall not be considered permanent employees and shall receive only such rights and benefits applicable to other state employees as may be expressly prescribed by the Commissioner of Administrative Services. Such intermittent employees who meet eligibility requirements shall be admitted to promotional examinations and be placed on candidate lists pursuant to this chapter.

Cited. 174 C. 271; 175 C. 127.

Employees hired pursuant to section not eligible for unemployment unless permitted by the personnel policy board and ineligibility does not violate equal protection. 32 CS 319.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-155a — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 66 / Section 5-155a
Sec. 5-155a. Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission. Membership. Powers and duties. Alternate retirement program. Regulations. Report by Treasurer. Claims process.
Status: in_force

(b) Meetings. The Retirement Commission shall meet at least monthly and shall report to the Governor as provided in section 4-60 .

(c) Powers and duties. The Retirement Commission shall administer this retirement system and all other state retirement and pension plans except the Teachers' Retirement Fund. The Retirement Commission shall have general supervision of the operation of the retirement system, shall conduct the business and activities of the system, in accordance with this chapter and applicable law and each trustee shall be a fiduciary with respect to the retirement system and its members. The Retirement Commission shall authorize the participation in an alternate retirement program by the eligible unclassified employees of the constituent units of the state system of higher education and the central office staff of the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Such program may be underwritten by a life insurance company licensed to do business in this state. In conducting the business of the system, including its oversight functions, the Retirement Commission shall act: (1) With the care, skill, prudence and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; (2) in accordance with strict fiduciary standards and responsibilities; and (3) in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes and applicable collective bargaining agreements.

(d) Social Security. The Retirement Commission shall act as agent for the state in all matters relating to the Social Security Agreement, except those matters set forth in parts four, nine and ten of said agreement. The Retirement Commission may make regulations as to maintaining membership under Social Security or conduct referenda as appropriate to secure Social Security coverage for state employees to the extent permitted by Section 218 of the Social Security Act.

(e) Regulations. The Retirement Commission may adopt such regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and may establish rules and regulations which it deems necessary or desirable to facilitate the proper administration of the retirement system. Rules and regulations established by the commission shall be binding upon all parties dealing with the Retirement Commission and all persons claiming any benefits from the system provided that no regulation, rule, action or determination made or adopted by the Retirement Commission shall in any manner conflict or be inconsistent with any provision of an applicable current collective bargaining agreement in effect between any state employer and the unions representing employees.

(f) Allocation and delegation of fiduciary responsibilities. The Retirement Commission may, by resolution or regulation, allocate fiduciary responsibilities and various administrative duties to committees or subcommittees of the Retirement Commission, and may delegate such responsibilities and duties to other individuals as it deems appropriate or necessary in its sole discretion and consistent with this section.

(g) Hearings. The commission may hold hearings when deemed necessary in the performance of its duty. The hearings shall be governed by rules and regulations of the commission and the commission shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence.

(h) General counsel. The commission may hire a general counsel who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission, have offices in the Retirement Division and perform duties as directed by the commission. The commission may obtain such additional legal advice and assistance as it deems advisable.

(i) Reporting and disclosure. (1) All plans, descriptions and reports and all legal, financial and actuarial documents dealing with the general operations of the pension plan shall be available for inspection and copying by members and their representatives. The cost of any copying shall be borne by the member or representative, but shall not exceed twenty-five cents per page.

(2) Each year the State Treasurer shall publish and forward to the commission a consolidated report showing the fiscal transactions of the system for the preceding fiscal year, including gain or loss by category of security, a reconciliation of assets showing the progression of the fund from one year to the next, the amount of the accumulated cash and securities of the system and the last balance sheet showing the financial condition of the system by means of an actuarial valuation of its assets and liabilities. Assets shall be shown at book and market value and by type or term of investment. Gain or loss shall be reported by category of security type. This requirement shall be satisfied if an Internal Revenue Service form 5500 is completed and submitted to the commission provided that the information included therein is sufficient to allow the computation of the investment yield of the fund on an annual basis. Each member shall receive a summary plan description within ninety days of employment and at least once in every four years thereafter. The commission shall notify members of substantial statutory plan amendments, if any, within two hundred ten days after their effective date.

(3) Effective July 1, 1985, and annually thereafter, the commission shall provide each member with a statement that shows the individual's vested benefits or the benefits the member may be entitled to on vesting and the date on which the member will be vested, shows the amount of the member's accrued benefits, shows the name of the beneficiary, if any, of the member in case of death and shows the total amount of contributions paid by the member and the interest accrued, if any.

(j) Claims procedure. Any claim for a pension or any other benefit which may become available in accordance with the provisions of this chapter may be submitted to the commission provided it is submitted in writing. Any such claim will be reviewed and decided by the commission. The claimant shall be advised of the processing status of his claim upon reasonable request.

(k) Claims review and appeal procedure. If any claim is denied, a claimant may request that the decision be reviewed and reconsidered by the commission. Thereafter, any such case shall be decided as a contested case in accordance with chapter 54.

See Sec. 4-38f for definition of “administrative purposes only”.

Cited. 210 C. 531; 234 C. 411; Id., 424.

Cited. 34 CA 510; judgment reversed, see 234 C. 424.

Subsec. (j): For claims to recalculate retirement benefits in accordance with 284 C. 149, the six-year statute of limitations for contract actions under Sec. 52-576 applies and claimant's right of action accrues, so as to commence the running of that period, when such claimant's claim for such benefits is approved and finalized. 328 C. 345.

Subsec. (k):

Cited. 210 C. 214.

Plaintiff has no substantive right to appeal denial by the State Employees Retirement Commission of his request to reconsider the calculation of his retirement benefits. 48 CA 482.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-257 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-257
Sec. 5-257. Group life insurance.
Status: in_force

(2) Any such group policy may provide that each employee or member of the General Assembly eligible for insurance under the policy shall become insured on the date the employee or member becomes eligible unless the employee or member declines the insurance in such manner as may be provided in the policy.

(b) The amount of life insurance for any employee or member of the General Assembly insured under this section shall be based on the employee's or member's yearly gross compensation rate in accordance with the following schedule:
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-246 — Connecticut Code / Title 5 / Chapter 67 / Section 5-246
Sec. 5-246. State police workweek. Work for highway contractors.
Status: in_force

(b) A state policeman employed in an executive, administrative or professional capacity as defined under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 5-245 who performs work authorized by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection in addition to the hours of his regular workweek as established by the commissioner shall be granted equivalent time off with pay, except that the provisions of this subsection with respect to such work performed on and after August 3, 1983, shall not apply to the commissioner and the deputy commissioner. Equivalent time off with pay granted to a state police officer of the rank of lieutenant or above for work authorized on and after June 8, 1984, shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of the management personnel policy concerning compensatory time adopted by the Commissioner of Administrative Services.

(c) (1) Any state policeman who has prior to May 30, 1973, accumulated service time for which he has not been compensated shall have the option to receive for such time either equivalent time off with pay or monetary compensation at his current rate of pay or any combination of both options subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Any such option as provided by this subdivision shall be exercised before December 31, 1974.

(2) Any state police officer of the rank of lieutenant or above who has, prior to June 8, 1984, earned equivalent time off with pay shall use such time within five years of said date. Failure of any such officer to do so shall result in loss of such time.

Cited. 162 C. 334.