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CT Gen Stat § 31-22v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-22v - Office of apprenticeship training. Internet web site.

 (a) Not later than March 1, 2017, the Labor Department shall update the department's Internet web site with regard to the office of apprenticeship training. Such update shall include, but need not be limited to:(1) Simplification of the process by which current and prospective apprentices and employers may access comprehensive information relating to apprenticeship training on the department's Internet web site;(2) An accurate list of occupations in which apprentices are employed in the state and the number of apprentices participating in each occupation within the previous calendar year; and(3) Comprehensive information regarding apprenticeship coursework, including, but not limited to, a list of apprenticeship coursework providers, the Internet web site addresses for such apprenticeship coursework providers, the locations of such apprenticeship coursework providers, the occupations in which such apprenticeship coursework providers offer apprenticeship coursework and the costs associated with such apprenticeship coursework, which shall be accompanied by a disclaimer that cost information is only one factor to be considered in selecting coursework. The department may provide electronic links to such information.(b) The department shall update the information described in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of this section as often as practicable, but not less than annually, to improve the efficiency by which current and prospective apprentices and employers may engage in apprenticeships in the state.(P.A. 16-114, S. 2; P.A. 17-60, S. 11.)History: P.A. 16-114 effective June 3, 2016; P.A. 17-60 deleted former Subsec. (c) re report by department re update to department's Internet web site, effective July 1, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 31-23a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-23a - Minors employed on or after October 1, 2007, deemed to have been lawfully employed.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 31-23 in effect prior to June 2, 2008, any minor who reached the age of fifteen and was employed, on or after October 1, 2007, as a bagger, cashier or stock clerk shall be deemed to have been lawfully employed, provided such employment was in accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs (A) to (D), inclusive, of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of said section 31-23. Any person who employed such minor shall not be deemed (1) to have violated the provisions of subsection (a) of said section 31-23, or (2) subject to the penalties of section 31-15a or 31-69a.(P.A. 08-108, S. 2.)History: P.A. 08-108 effective June 2, 2008.
CT Gen Stat § 31-24 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-24 - Hazardous employment of children forbidden.

 Except in technical education and career schools or in public schools teaching manual training, no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in adjusting or assisting in adjusting any belt upon any machine, or in oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery, while power is attached, or in preparing any composition in which dangerous acids are used, or in soldering, or in the manufacture or packing of paints, dry colors or red or white lead, or in the manufacture, packing or storing of gun or blasting powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine compounds, safety fuses in the raw or unvarnished state, electric fuses for blasting purposes or any other explosive, or in the manufacture or use of any dangerous or poisonous gas or dye, or composition of lye in which the quantity thereof is injurious to health, or upon any scaffolding, or in any heavy work in any building trade or in any tunnel, mine or quarry, or in operating or assisting to operate any emery, stone or buffing wheel; and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of section 31-23, no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity requiring such child to stand continuously.(1949 Rev., S. 7353; P.A. 74-185, S. 3; P.A. 87-195, S. 2; P.A. 97-263, S. 11; P.A. 06-139, S. 5; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 17-237, S. 106.)History: P.A. 74-185 prohibited employment of all children under 16, regardless of sex, in capacity which requires continuous standing where previously prohibition applied to females only; P.A. 87-195 allowed children under 16 years of age to work in jobs requiring them to stand continuously as provided in Sec. 31-23; P.A. 97-263 increased amount of fine from $100 to $200; P.A. 06-139 eliminated provision re penalty for violation of section, effective January 1, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “vocational schools” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high schools”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-237 replaced “state technical high schools” with “technical education and career schools”, effective July 1, 2017.See Secs. 31-15a, 31-69a re penalties for violation of section.Cited. 243 C. 66.
CT Gen Stat § 31-25 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-25 - Operation of elevators by minors.

 No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to have the care, custody, operation or management of an elevator; any person, partnership or corporation violating this provision shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense. No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to have the care, custody, management or operation of an elevator, either for freight or passengers, running at a speed of over two hundred feet per minute; any person, whether acting for himself or as agent for another, who authorizes or permits the employment of any person in violation of this provision shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 7354; P.A. 97-263, S. 12.)History: P.A. 97-263 doubled the amount of both fines.
CT Gen Stat § 31-28 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-28 - Registration of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.

 Section 31-28 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012.(1949 Rev., S. 3748; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-29 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-29 - Manufacturing license for residential buildings.

 No person, except a member of the immediate family residing in a dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, and no firm, partnership or corporation shall use such building, in whole or in part, for the manufacture of any products, or parts thereof, until the owner thereof has obtained from the Labor Commissioner a license authorizing its use for such purpose. Said commissioner shall, before granting such license, establish the fact, by thorough inspection, that the building conforms in every respect to the requirements of the general statutes relating to heat, light, safety, health, ventilation and sanitation. The fee for such inspection, which shall accompany such application, shall be twenty-five dollars, payable, whether a license is granted or not, to the Labor Department.(1949 Rev., S. 3762.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-30 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-30 - Home workers.

 Any person, other than a member of the immediate family residing therein, who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, engages in the manufacture of any products, or parts thereof, in any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, which has been licensed in accordance with section 31-29, shall conform in every respect to the provisions of the general statutes governing the registration and operation of manufacturing and mechanical establishments. Any member or members of the immediate family residing in any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, whether licensed for such purpose or not, may use such place of residence for the purpose of manufacturing products, or parts thereof, either on their own behalf, or on behalf of other manufacturing or mechanical establishments located within the state as hereinafter provided. Such home workers shall conform in every respect to the provisions of the general statutes governing the working hours and conditions of women and minors in manufacturing and mechanical establishments, and, in the observance thereof, they shall be subject to inspection under the supervision of said commissioner. Said commissioner shall report to the board of health, humane society or other agency having jurisdiction any condition believed to be unhealthful, insanitary or otherwise prejudicial to the well-being of such home workers, in order that such condition may be investigated and corrected by such agency.(1949 Rev., S. 3763.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-31 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-31 - Records of home workers and materials.

 Manufacturing and mechanical establishments may furnish materials to be manufactured in whole or in part by home workers, if such establishments are located within the state and subject to inspection and supervision by said commissioner or other agencies, as authorized by the general statutes, for the protection of life and health. Such establishments shall record the names and home addresses of all persons to whom materials for manufacturing purposes have been furnished and all payments made to such persons for work thus performed. All such records shall be preserved at least three years. They shall be accessible, during the actual operating hours of such establishments, to said commissioner or his representatives upon presentation of properly executed credentials, in order that the inspection and supervision of home work as provided by section 31-30 may be conducted freely and expeditiously at the discretion of said commissioner.(1949 Rev., S. 3764.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-32 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-32 - Penalty.

 Any person who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, violates any provision of sections 31-29 to 31-31, inclusive, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate offense.(1949 Rev., S. 3765.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-33 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-33 - Regulation of industrial home work.

 Section 31-33 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012.(1949 Rev., S. 3766; P.A. 95-79, S. 106, 189; P.A. 05-288, S. 135; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-34 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-34 - Stained glass windows.

 Section 31-34 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(1949 Rev., S. 3750; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-35 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-35 - Lighting and sanitary condition of factories and roundhouses.

 Section 31-35 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 3751; P.A. 73-379, S. 20, 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-36 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-36 - Toilet room required in foundries. Penalty.

 The commissioner shall have authority by order to that effect to require the proprietor of any foundry in which ten or more persons are employed, situated in a locality where there is such system for the disposal of sewage as to make such order practicable, to provide for the use of such employees a toilet room of such suitable dimensions as said commissioner determines, containing washbowls or sinks connected with running water, with facilities for heating the same, such room to be directly connected with such foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected from the dust of such foundry. Any person, company or corporation failing to comply with such order shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 3752; P.A. 74-185, S. 4.)History: P.A. 74-185 referred to foundries which employed ten or more “persons” rather than “men”.
CT Gen Stat § 31-37 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-37 - Toilet accommodations in manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and restaurants.

 Section 31-37 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 3753; February, 1965, P.A. 324; P.A. 73-379, S. 20, 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-38 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-38 - Toilet accommodations on tobacco plantations.

 Any person, firm or corporation employing twenty-five or more laborers on a tobacco plantation, which fails to provide adequate toilet accommodations for such employees, so arranged as to secure reasonable privacy for both sexes of such employees, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 8638.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-39 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-39 - Employees in paper factory to be vaccinated.

 Section 31-39 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 7358; P.A. 87-134.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-39a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-39a - Operation of hydraulic loading and unloading equipment at resources recovery facilities.

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each owner or operator of a resources recovery facility, as defined in section 22a-207, that (1) serves more than four municipalities, and (2) employs a floor level feed system to load solid waste into a combustion unit, but does not use overhead cranes to load municipal solid waste into the waste feed hoppers, shall have, during such times as solid waste is being moved with hydraulic loading or unloading equipment, at least two employees of the facility familiar with the operation of such equipment present in the work area in which such equipment is being operated.(b) No resources recovery facility shall be required to comply with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section if such facility has (1) a properly working camera trained on and with an unobscured view of the feed hopper area, or (2) a device that stops the feeder from operating whenever a person enters onto the feed hopper.(P.A. 07-136, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-40 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-40 - Reporting serious accidents in establishments or work places under jurisdiction of Labor Commissioner.

 Except as otherwise provided by law, the person in active charge of any establishment or work place coming under the jurisdiction of the Labor Commissioner shall forward by mail to the commissioner at his office, within fifteen days after each accident resulting in serious physical injury to an employee while at work in such establishment or work place, a written notice of every such accident of which he has knowledge, which notice shall state the name of the injured employee, the time of the accident and the nature of the injury and shall also contain a general description of the location in the establishment and of the character of the machine, if any, upon which the employee was at work at the time. The commissioner shall forthwith transmit to the person in charge of such establishment a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such notice, and shall keep a record of such accidents thus reported to him. Such records, notices and reports to the commissioner and any investigation made by him or his deputies or agents shall be privileged and confidential and shall not be open for examination or inspection, and neither such commissioner nor any of his deputies or agents shall be a competent witness as to the facts involved in such accident in any proceeding pending in any court, unless such commissioner, deputy or agent was present at the time of the occurrence of the accident. The term “accident resulting in serious physical injury”, as used in this section, shall be construed to mean an accident which results in the death of the employee or causes his absence from work for at least one week. Any person, after having received from the commissioner forms for such notices, who fails to send notice of any accident as required by this section, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 3754; 1967, P.A. 444.)History: 1967 act deleted reference to Hartford as location of commissioner's office, deleted reference to “manufacturing or mercantile” establishments and added reference to work places under commissioner's jurisdiction.See Sec. 31-316 re employer's duty to record and report employees' injuries and to report insurance coverage and welfare fund payment provided to employees.
CT Gen Stat § 31-40a. (Formerly Sec. 19-48) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-40a. (Formerly Sec. 19-48) - Reports of occupational diseases and investigations concerning them.

 Each physician or advanced practice registered nurse having knowledge of any person whom he or she believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic, brass, wood alcohol or mercury or their compounds, or from anthrax or from compressed-air illness or any other disease, contracted as a result of the nature of the employment of such person, shall, within forty-eight hours, mail to the Labor Department, Department of Factory Inspection, as provided in section 31-9, a report stating the name, address and occupation of such patient, the name, address and business of his or her employer, the nature of the disease and such other information as may reasonably be required by said department. The department shall prepare and furnish to the physicians and advanced practice registered nurses of this state suitable blanks for the reports herein required. No report made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be admissible as evidence of the facts therein stated in any action at law or in any action under the Workers' Compensation Act against any employer of such diseased person. Any physician or advanced practice registered nurse who fails to send any report herein required or who fails to send the same within the time specified herein shall be liable to the state for a penalty of not more than ten dollars, recoverable by civil action in the name of the state by said department. The Labor Department, Department of Factory Inspection, as provided in section 31-9, is authorized to investigate and make recommendations for the elimination or prevention of occupational diseases reported to it in accordance with the provisions of this section. Said department is also authorized to study and provide advice in regard to conditions suspected of causing occupational diseases, provided information obtained upon investigations made in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be admissible as evidence in any action at law to recover damages for personal injury or in any action under the Workers' Compensation Act.(1949 Rev., S. 3867; P.A. 73-449, S. 2; P.A. 78-349, S. 1, 3; P.A. 79-376, S. 28; P.A. 16-39, S. 56.)History: P.A. 73-449 replaced department of health with labor department, department of factory inspection; Sec. 19-48 transferred to Sec. 31-40a in 1975; P.A. 78-349 deleted provision requiring labor department to pay physicians $0.50 for making report; P.A. 79-376 substituted “workers' compensation act” for “workmen's compensation act”; P.A. 16-39 added references to advanced practice registered nurse and made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 31-40b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-40b - Employers required to provide lung function tests to certain employees.

 (a) Each employer shall, when required by the Labor Commissioner, at his own expense, provide lung function tests to each of his employees who, in the course of his employment, comes into contact with chemicals, materials, gases or other substances which have been identified as toxic and hazardous under the Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Subpart Z, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Chapter XVII. The tests to be required, their frequency and the standards of administration of such tests shall be prescribed by regulation by the Labor Commissioner, with the advice of a physician specializing in pulmonary disease. No employee shall be required to have a lung function test against his will.(b) Each employer employing persons within a foundry shall provide a mandatory lung function test at least once every two years and where appropriate, chest x-rays as prescribed by the Labor Commissioner for those employees exposed to the day to day manufacturing process, at the employer's expense. The tests to be required, the definition of who shall take the tests and the standards for administration of such tests shall be prescribed by regulation adopted on or before January 1, 1981, by the Labor Commissioner, with the advice of a panel of physicians specializing in pulmonary disease. Said panel shall have five members, consisting of three physicians chosen by the Labor Commissioner from a list of qualified pulmonary specialists submitted by The American College of Chest Physicians, one physician chosen by the foundry employers and one physician chosen by the foundry employees. Employees shall be paid for the time involved in such testing. An employee shall be exempted from such testing if the tenets of his religion forbid participation in such tests, and he requests such an exemption. As used in this section, “foundry” means any business or works which utilizes sand in the casting of metals.(P.A. 77-445; P.A. 80-132.)History: P.A. 80-132 added Subsec. (b) re mandatory lung function tests.