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CT Gen Stat § 31-40v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-40v - Establishment of safety and health committees by certain employers.

 (a) In order to promote health and safety in places of employment in this state, each employer of twenty-five or more employees in this state, including the state and any political subdivision of the state, and each employer whose rate of work related injury and illness exceeds the average incidence rate of all industries in this state, shall administer a safety and health committee in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. For purposes of this subsection, “incidence rate” means the number of federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordable injuries and illnesses per one hundred full-time employees.(b) The chairman of the Workers' Compensation Commission, in consultation with the Labor Commissioner and in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. The regulations shall (1) prescribe the membership of safety and health committees to ensure representation of employees and employers; (2) specify the frequency of committee meetings; (3) require employers to make, file and maintain adequate written records of each committee meeting subject to inspection by the chairman or his authorized designee; (4) require employers to compensate employee representatives at their regular hourly wage while the employee representatives are engaged in safety and health committee training or are attending committee meetings; (5) prescribe the duties and functions of safety and health committees, which shall include (A) establishing procedures for workplace safety inspections by the committee, (B) establishing procedures for investigating all safety incidents, accidents, illnesses and deaths, (C) evaluating accident and illness prevention programs, (D) establishing training programs for the identification and reduction of hazards in the workplace which damage the reproductive systems of employees, and (E) establishing training programs to assist committee members in understanding and identifying the effects of employee substance abuse on workplace accidents and safety; and (6) prescribe guidelines for the training of safety and health committee members.(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, each employer who, on July 1, 1993, has an existing health and safety program or other program determined by the chairman of the Workers' Compensation Commission to be effective in the promotion of health and safety in the workplace, shall not be required to comply with this section. The chairman of the Workers' Compensation Commission, in consultation with the Labor Commissioner, shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing the criteria for evaluating such programs.(P.A. 93-228, S. 28, 35.)History: P.A. 93-228 effective July 1, 1993.
CT Gen Stat § 31-40w (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-40w - Breastfeeding in the workplace.

 (a) Any employee may, at her discretion, express breast milk or breastfeed on site at her workplace during her meal or break period.(b) An employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where the employee can express her milk in private.(c) An employer shall not discriminate against, discipline or take any adverse employment action against any employee because such employee has elected to exercise her rights under subsection (a) of this section.(d) As used in this section, “employer” means a person engaged in business who has one or more employees, including the state and any political subdivision of the state; “employee” means any person engaged in service to an employer in the business of the employer; “reasonable efforts” means any effort that would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer's business; and “undue hardship” means any action that requires significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to factors such as the size of the business, its financial resources and the nature and structure of its operation.(P.A. 01-182.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-41 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-41 - Order to remove excessive dust.

 Section 31-41 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 3755; P.A. 73-379, S. 20, 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-42 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-42 - Appliances for threading shuttles.

 Each person, firm or corporation engaged in weaving shall furnish suitable appliances to permit the threading of shuttles without the necessity of the operator putting any thread into his mouth or touching any portion of the shuttle with his lips.(1949 Rev., S. 3758.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-43 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-43 - Public laundries; sanitation.

 Section 31-43 is repealed, effective October 1, 2018.(1949 Rev., S. 3759; P.A. 18-168, S. 85.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-44 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-44 - Penalty for violation of orders.

 Each owner, lessee or occupant of a factory or other building included within the provisions of this chapter, or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, shall, for the violation of any provision of section 31-42, or for obstructing or hindering the commissioner or the commissioner's deputies in carrying out the duties imposed on them by law, be fined not more than fifty dollars; but no prosecution shall be brought for any such violation until four weeks after notice has been given by the commissioner to such owner, lessee or occupant of any changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said sections, and not then if, in the meantime, such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. Nothing herein shall limit the right of a person injured to bring an action to recover damages.(1949 Rev., S. 3761; P.A. 74-338, S. 34, 94; P.A. 02-89, S. 71; P.A. 18-168, S. 41.)History: P.A. 74-338 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 31-35; P.A. 02-89 deleted reference to Sec. 31-34, reflecting repeal of said section by the same public act, and made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality; P.A. 18-168 deleted reference to Sec. 31-43.
CT Gen Stat § 31-45 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-45 - Emergency kits required in factories.

 Section 31-45 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 7369; P.A. 73-379, S. 20, 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-45a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-45a - Protection of feet.

 The Labor Commissioner may promulgate and enforce regulations concerning adequate protection for those individuals who are employed in occupations where injuries to the foot present a hazard. Said commissioner may authorize the use of safety work shoes, boots or inner soles that provide adequate protection against puncture, bruises or other wounds which may be inflicted by nails, glass or other objects encountered in the normal course of employment.(1972, P.A. 230.)Cited. 243 C. 66.
CT Gen Stat § 31-47 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-47 - Inspection of employee lodging houses.

 Any agent of a firm or corporation and every other person who maintains or has charge of any structure used as a boarding house or place of abode for laborers employed by such person, firm or corporation shall, within seventy-two hours after such structure has been occupied for such purpose or purposes, notify the director of health of the town, city or borough in which such structure is located. Such director, within five days thereafter, shall inspect such premises and may forbid the use of the same altogether or make such other orders as he deems necessary to protect the health of the inmates. Any person violating any provision of this section or failing to comply with any order of a director of health made pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 7364.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-48 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-48 - Laborers not to be overcharged.

 Any agent of a corporation, or other person employing laborers, who charges or exacts for articles or merchandise sold to such laborers a greater sum than is a reasonable price therefor in the town or city where such sales are made, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for such sale of each separate article.(1949 Rev., S. 7365.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-48a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-48a - Recruitment or referral of professional strikebreaker restricted.

 (a) As used in this section, “professional strikebreaker” means any person who has been employed anywhere two or more times in the same craft or industry in place of employees involved in strikes or lockouts. No person, partnership, agency, firm or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, shall recruit, procure, supply or refer any professional strikebreaker for employment in place of an employee involved in a strike or lockout in which such person, partnership, agency, firm or corporation is not directly interested. No professional strikebreaker shall take or offer to take the place in employment of employees involved in a strike or lockout. Any person, partnership, agency, firm or corporation which violates this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.(b) Nothing in this section shall prevent or interfere with the recruiting or procuring of any person who is not a professional strikebreaker within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section, provided there shall be compliance with the provisions of section 31-121.(1967, P.A. 509, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 26.)History: P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (a) to change penalty from fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 3 years to a class E felony.
CT Gen Stat § 31-48b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-48b - Use of electronic surveillance devices by employers limited. Prohibition on recording negotiations between employers and employees.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “employer” means the owner or owners in the case of an unincorporated business, the partners in the case of a partnership, the officers in the case of a corporation or in the case of the state, any town, city or borough, or district, local or regional board of education, or housing authority or district department of health, the chief executive officer thereof.(b) No employer or agent or representative of an employer shall operate any electronic surveillance device or system, including but not limited to the recording of sound or voice or a closed circuit television system, or any combination thereof, for the purpose of recording or monitoring the activities of his employees in areas designed for the health or personal comfort of the employees or for safeguarding of their possessions, such as rest rooms, locker rooms or lounges.(c) Any employer who violates any provision of subsection (b) of this section shall, for the first offense, be fined five hundred dollars, for the second offense, be fined one thousand dollars and, for the third and any subsequent offense, be fined one thousand dollars and imprisoned thirty days.(d) No employer or his agent or representative and no employee or his agent or representative shall intentionally overhear or record a conversation or discussion pertaining to employment contract negotiations between the two parties, by means of any instrument, device or equipment, unless such party has the consent of all parties to such conversation or discussion.(e) Any employer or his agent or representative or any employee or his agent or representative who violates any provision of subsection (d) of this section shall be fined one thousand dollars or imprisoned one year, or both.(1971, P.A. 338, S. 1–3; P.A. 80-209; P.A. 12-80, S. 92.)History: P.A. 80-209 added Subsecs. (d) and (e) prohibiting secretive overhearing or recording of employment contract negotiations and imposing penalty for violation; P.A. 12-80 amended Subsec. (c) to add a fine of $1,000 for third and any subsequent offense and make technical changes.Cited. 201 C. 685.
CT Gen Stat § 31-48c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-48c - Hiring of municipal police during labor dispute prohibited.

 No employer, except the state or any political subdivision thereof, or employee organization involved in a labor dispute shall hire any member of a municipal police department in the town in which the labor dispute is taking place for protection or other duties related to the labor dispute during the period of the labor dispute.(P.A. 81-77.)
CT Gen Stat § 31-48d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-48d - Employers engaged in electronic monitoring required to give prior notice to employees. Exceptions. Civil penalty.

 (a) As used in this section:(1) “Employer” means any person, firm or corporation, including the state and any political subdivision of the state which has employees;(2) “Employee” means any person who performs services for an employer in a business of the employer, if the employer has the right to control and direct the person as to (A) the result to be accomplished by the services, and (B) the details and means by which such result is accomplished; and(3) “Electronic monitoring” means the collection of information on an employer's premises concerning employees' activities or communications by any means other than direct observation, including the use of a computer, telephone, wire, radio, camera, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical systems, but not including the collection of information (A) for security purposes in common areas of the employer's premises which are held out for use by the public, or (B) which is prohibited under state or federal law.(b) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, each employer who engages in any type of electronic monitoring shall give prior written notice to all employees who may be affected, informing them of the types of monitoring which may occur. Each employer shall post, in a conspicuous place which is readily available for viewing by its employees, a notice concerning the types of electronic monitoring which the employer may engage in. Such posting shall constitute such prior written notice.(2) When (A) an employer has reasonable grounds to believe that employees are engaged in conduct which (i) violates the law, (ii) violates the legal rights of the employer or the employer's employees, or (iii) creates a hostile workplace environment, and (B) electronic monitoring may produce evidence of this misconduct, the employer may conduct monitoring without giving prior written notice.(c) The Labor Commissioner may levy a civil penalty against any person that the commissioner finds to be in violation of subsection (b) of this section, after a hearing conducted in accordance with sections 4-176e to 4-184, inclusive. The maximum civil penalty shall be five hundred dollars for the first offense, one thousand dollars for the second offense and three thousand dollars for the third and each subsequent offense.(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a criminal investigation. Any information obtained in the course of a criminal investigation through the use of electronic monitoring may be used in a disciplinary proceeding against an employee.(P.A. 98-142.)There is no private cause of action under section, and legislature intended enforcement mechanisms for violation of section to be limited to proceedings before the Labor Commissioner. 294 C. 461.
CT Gen Stat § 31-49 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-49 - Care required of a master for his servant's safety.

 It shall be the duty of the master to exercise reasonable care to provide for his servant a reasonably safe place in which to work, reasonably safe appliances and instrumentalities for his work and fit and competent persons as his colaborers and to exercise reasonable care in the appointment or designation of a vice-principal and to appoint as such vice-principal a fit and competent person. The default of a vice-principal in the performance of any duty imposed by law on the master shall be the default of the master.(1949 Rev., S. 7367.)Cited. 80 C. 205; 143 C. 197. No basis for action under statute where case is clearly within scope of Workers' Compensation Act. 196 C. 529. Cited. 243 C. 66. Employer's refusal to accommodate employee's work-at-home request did not create an unlawful working condition under section. 249 C. 766.
CT Gen Stat § 31-49i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-49i - Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund established.

 (a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund” for the purpose of providing family and medical leave compensation to covered employees. The Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund shall be a nonlapsing fund held by the State Treasurer separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Investment earnings credited to the trust shall become part of the trust.(b) The fund shall constitute an instrumentality of the state and shall perform essential governmental functions, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The trust shall receive and hold all payments and deposits and premiums intended for the trust, as well as gifts, bequests, endowments or federal, state or local grants and any other funds from any public or private source and all earnings until disbursed in accordance with the provisions of this section.(c) The amounts on deposit in the trust shall not constitute property of the state and the trust shall not be construed to be a department, institution or agency of the state. Amounts on deposit in the trust shall not be commingled with state funds and the state shall have no claim to or against, or interest in, such funds. Any contract entered into by or any obligation of the trust shall not constitute a debt or obligation of the state and the state shall have no obligation to any designated beneficiary or any other person on account of the trust and all amounts obligated to be paid from the trust shall be limited to amounts available for such obligation on deposit in the trust. The trust shall continue in existence as long as it holds any deposits or has any obligations and until its existence is terminated by law and upon termination any unclaimed assets shall return to the state. Property of the trust shall be governed by section 3-61a.(d) The State Treasurer shall be responsible for the receipt and investment of moneys held by the trust. The trust shall not receive deposits in any form other than cash. No depositor or designated beneficiary may direct the investment of any contributions or amounts held in the trust other than the specific fund options provided for by the trust.(e) The assets of the trust shall be used for the purpose of distributing family and medical leave compensation to covered employees, paying the operational and administrative costs of the authority, educating and informing persons about the program and paying the operational, administrative and investment costs of the trust, including those incurred pursuant to section 31-49j.(P.A. 19-25, S. 5.)History: P.A. 19-25 effective June 25, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 31-49j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-49j - Duties of State Treasurer.

 The State Treasurer, on behalf of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund and for purposes of the trust, shall:(1) Receive and invest moneys in the trust in any instruments, obligations, securities or property in accordance with sections 31-49g to 31-49i, inclusive;(2) Procure insurance as the State Treasurer deems necessary to protect the trust's property, assets, activities or deposits or contributions to the trust; and(3) Apply for, accept and expend gifts, grants or donations from public or private sources to carry out the objectives of the trust.(P.A. 19-25, S. 6.)History: P.A. 19-25 effective June 25, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 31-49k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-49k - State Treasurer. Investments.

 The State Treasurer shall invest the amounts on deposit in the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund in a manner reasonable and appropriate to achieve the objectives of the trust, exercising the discretion and care of a prudent person in similar circumstances with similar objectives. The State Treasurer shall give due consideration to rate of return, risk, term or maturity, diversification of the total portfolio within the trust, liquidity, the projected disbursements and expenditures and the expected payments, deposits, contributions and gifts to be received. The State Treasurer shall not require the trust to invest directly in obligations of the state or any political subdivision of the state or in any investment or other fund administered by the State Treasurer. The assets of the trust shall be continuously invested and reinvested in a manner consistent with the objectives of the trust until disbursed upon order of the authority or expended on expenses incurred by the operations of the trust.(P.A. 19-25, S. 7.)History: P.A. 19-25 effective June 25, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 31-49l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 31 - Labor|Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation|Section 31-49l - Board of directors. Responsibilities.

 (a) The Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Authority board of directors, in conducting the business of the authority, including its oversight functions, 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 like character and with like aims; and (2) in accordance with the provisions of sections 31-49e to 31-49t, inclusive, and any other applicable sections of the general statutes.(b) The board shall, to the extent reasonable and practicable, require any agents engaged or appointed by the authority to abide by the standard of care described in subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 19-25, S. 8.)History: P.A. 19-25 effective June 25, 2019.