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2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-26 and 31-27. - Employment of women before and after confinement. Seats to be provided for female employees.

Sections 31-26 and 31-27 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 7357, 7368; 1972, P.A. 53, S. 1; P.A. 74-185, S. 5.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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”.
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-38a and 31-38b. - Sanitary, lighting and heating facilities for railroad employees. Commissioner to enforce.

Sections 31-38a and 31-38b are repealed, effective June 11, 2014.
(1959, P.A. 126, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-2, S. 3, 4; P.A. 14-187, S. 55.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40a and 31-40b. (Formerly Sec. 19-48). - Reports of occupational diseases and investigations concerning them. Employers required to provide lung function test to certain employees.

Sections 31-40a and 41-40b are repealed, effective May 23, 2022.
(1949 Rev., S. 3867; P.A. 73-449, S. 2; P.A. 77-445; P.A. 78-349, S. 1, 3; P.A. 79-376, S. 28; P.A. 80-132; P.A. 16-39, S. 56; P.A. 22-67, S. 17.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40c. - Information and notice requirements for employers using or producing carcinogens.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Person” means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons.
(2) “Employer” means a person engaged in business who has employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof.
(3) “Employee” means any person engaged in service to an employer in a business of his employer.
(b) Each employer shall post a list of all carcinogenic substances, as described in sections 19a-329 and 19a-331, which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment. Such list shall be readily available for viewing by the employees. Such list shall be updated to reflect any changes to sections 19a-329 and 19a-331 within ninety days of the effective date of such changes.
(c) Upon offering employment to a prospective employee and on January first of each year each employer shall furnish to each of his employees a list of all such carcinogenic substances which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment, and the dangers inherent in exposure to such substances.
(d) Each employer shall provide an education and training program for his new employees, during the first month of their employment, adequately describing the presence of such carcinogenic substances which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment, the dangers inherent in exposure to such substances and proper methods for avoiding harmful effects from such substances by keeping exposure within the allowable limits set by regulations promulgated by the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(e) Any person who supplies such carcinogenic substances to an employer shall label all such substances by generic or basic chemical name only and shall provide safe handling procedures for such substances.
(P.A. 80-257, S. 1–5; P.A. 95-79, S. 107, 189.)
History: P.A. 95-79 amended Subsec. (a) to redefine “person” to include limited liability companies, effective May 31, 1995.
Cited. 243 C. 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40d. - Complaints of violations. Inspections. Discrimination prohibited.

(a) Any employee or representative of employees who believes that there is a violation by the employer of such employee of any provisions of section 31-40c may request an inspection by filing a complaint of such violation with the Labor Commissioner. The complaint shall be in writing, signed and set forth with reasonable particularity the grounds for the complaint. Within a reasonable period of time after receipt of such complaint, the Labor Commissioner shall notify the employer in writing of the complaint and permit the employer to demonstrate compliance with the provisions of section 31-40c. If such compliance has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner within fourteen days of the mailing of the notification, the commissioner or his authorized representative, upon presenting appropriate credentials to the employer, operator or agent in charge, shall inspect, at reasonable times, the employer's workplace and all conditions pertinent to the grounds of the complaint and shall, in a reasonable manner, make any additional investigation deemed necessary by the commissioner or his representative for the full and effective determination of such employer's compliance with the provisions of section 31-40c. Whenever the commissioner or his authorized representative, proceeding pursuant to this section, is denied admission to any such place of employment, he shall obtain a warrant to make an inspection or investigation of such place of employment from any judge of the Superior Court. Any judge of the Superior Court within the state is authorized to issue a warrant pursuant to this section and shall issue such warrant whenever he is satisfied that the following conditions are met: That the individual seeking the warrant is a duly authorized agent of the department; and that such individual has established under oath or affirmation that the place of employment to be investigated in accordance with this section is to be inspected to determine compliance or noncompliance with the requirements of section 31-40c.
(b) An employer shall not discriminate against or discipline, in any manner, any employee because such employee has filed a complaint of violations of section 31-40c, as provided in this section, or has assisted the commissioner or his authorized representative in the investigation of such a complaint.
(P.A. 81-291, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40e. - Order to comply. Citation. Hearing. Appeal.

(a) If, upon inspection or investigation of a complaint, the Labor Commissioner or his authorized representative believes that an employer has violated any requirements of section 31-40c, he shall with reasonable promptness issue to the employer an order to comply. Such order shall be in writing and shall specifically describe the nature of the violation, and shall state a reasonable time period within which the violation must be corrected by the employer. If such violation has not been corrected within such time period, the Labor Commissioner or his authorized representative shall with reasonable promptness issue a citation to the employer. Each citation shall be in writing and shall specifically describe the nature of the violation, and shall state a reasonable time period within which the violation must be corrected by the employer.
(b) The employer may request the commissioner to provide a hearing concerning any orders to comply, citations or penalties issued to the employer under the provisions of this section or section 31-40d or 31-40f, and such hearing shall then be afforded in accordance with sections 4-176e to 4-181a, inclusive. The employer may appeal the final decision of such hearing in accordance with section 4-183.
(P.A. 81-291, S. 2; P.A. 88-317, S. 90, 107.)
History: P.A. 88-317 amended reference to Secs. 4-177 to 4-181 in Subsec. (b) to include new sections added to Ch. 54, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to all agency proceedings commencing on or after that date.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40g. - Information requirements for employers using or producing substances hazardous to reproductive systems.

Upon offering employment to a prospective employee, each employer shall inform the prospective employee of any chemicals, toxic substances, radioactive materials or any other substances which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment, which the employer should have reasonable cause to believe will cause birth defects or constitute a hazard to an individual's reproductive system or to a fetus when the individual is exposed to any of such substances in the course of his job assignment. Such information shall be made available to current employees who are exposed to such hazards.
(P.A. 81-382, S. 3.)
Cited. 243 C. 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40i. - Enforcement. Private right of action.

If an employer has violated any of the provisions of section 31-40h, any individual aggrieved by such violation may bring a civil action for judicial enforcement of such provisions in the superior court for the judicial district where the violation is alleged to have occurred or where the employer has its principal office. Any individual who prevails in such civil action shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs to be taxed by the court.
(P.A. 81-382, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40j. - Definitions.

As used in sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive:
(1) “Person” means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons.
(2) “Employer” means a person engaged in business who has employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof.
(3) “Employee” means any person who may be exposed under normal operating conditions or foreseeable emergencies to toxic substances while engaged in service to an employer in a business of his employer. For the purposes of this subdivision, “emergency” means any occurrence such as, but not limited to, equipment failure, rupture of containers or failure of control equipment which may or does result in an uncontrolled release of a toxic substance.
(4) “Toxic substance” means any substance: (A) Which has been identified as an air contaminant under the Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Chapter XVII, Subpart Z, Section 1910.1000, and (B) which an employer uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment. “Toxic substance” shall not include carcinogenic substances, as described in sections 19a-329 and 19a-331.
(5) “Trade secret” means any unpatented, secret, commercially valuable plan, appliance, formulation or process which is used for the making, preparing, compounding, treating or processing of articles or materials which are trade commodities obtained from a person and which are recognized by law as confidential.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 1, 8; P.A. 95-79, S. 108, 189.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983; P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include limited liability companies, effective May 31, 1995.
Cited. 243 C. 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40k. - Employee's right to information concerning toxic substances. Employer's list.

(a) Each employer shall post a sign, at a location readily available for viewing by employees, which informs the employees that they have the right to information from their employer regarding the toxic substances which the employer uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment.
(b) On January 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, the employer shall furnish to the Labor Department a list of all such toxic substances.
(c) Each employee, or his representative, may request in writing from his employer all information relating to toxic substances, as provided in section 31-40
l
. If an employee, or his representative, has made a request for information on such a substance, and the employer has not supplied such information within five working days, the employer shall not require the employee to work with the substance until the information has been provided to the employee.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 2, 8.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40l. - Information requirements for employer using or producing toxic substances.

(a) Each employer shall provide information on the toxic substances which he uses or produces in the manufacture of any item, product or material, or which he uses or produces for purposes of research, experimentation or treatment, for each of his new employees, during the first month of their employment, as follows: (1) The name of the toxic substance, including generic or chemical name; (2) the location of toxic substances to which the employee may be exposed; (3) the properties of toxic substances to which employees may be exposed; (4) the acute and chronic effects of exposure at hazardous levels and the symptoms of effect of such exposure, to the extent such information is available from the manufacturer, the supplier, the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Labor Department's Division of Occupational Safety and Health; (5) appropriate emergency treatment; (6) proper conditions for safe use of and exposure to such toxic substances; and (7) procedures for cleanup of leaks and spills of such toxic substances. All such information shall be provided, to the extent practicable, in informal and readily understandable language. Each employer shall also provide such information for any employee who is transferred from one job to another by the employer, within one month of such transfer, if the employee is exposed to additional toxic substances in his new job.
(b) Upon distribution of information to an employee under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section or subsection (c) of section 31-40k, the employer may require the employee to sign a statement acknowledging receipt of such information.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 3, 8.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40m. - Information requirements of supplier of toxic substances. Labor Department assistance.

(a) Any person who supplies any toxic substance to an employer shall provide the following information to the employer: (1) The generic or basic chemical name of the toxic substance; (2) the level at which exposure to the substance is determined to be hazardous, if known; (3) the acute and chronic effects of exposure at hazardous levels; (4) the symptoms of such effects; (5) appropriate emergency treatment; (6) proper conditions for safe use and exposure to such toxic substance; (7) procedures for cleanup of leaks and spills of such toxic substance; and (8) a label on each container of any such substance which states, in a clearly legible and conspicuous form, that a toxic substance is contained therein, except that no such label shall be required for any container of alcoholic liquor, as defined in section 30-1, or food, as defined in section 21a-92.
(b) Upon request of an employer, the Labor Department shall provide such employer with all the information concerning the employer's toxic substances which is available to the department at the time of such request, and which is relevant to the information requirements of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 4, 8; P.A. 83-511, S. 1, 4.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983; P.A. 83-511 amended Subsec. (a)(8) to exclude containers of food and alcoholic liquor from the labeling requirements.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40n. - Trade secret protections. Registration with Labor Commissioner.

When an employer or an employer's supplier claims that revealing the identity of a toxic substance, pursuant to the requirements of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive, would constitute the disclosure of a legally protectable trade secret, he may register this information as a trade secret with the Labor Commissioner. The commissioner shall assign a registry number to the substance. No employee of the Labor Department shall disclose to any person the identity of any substance so registered, except as required under the provisions of section 1-210. When responding to any request for information under the provisions of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive, such employer or supplier may refer to such substance by its registry number, and the employer or supplier shall not be required to reveal the name of such substance. All other information concerning such substance shall be provided by the employer or supplier as required by the provisions of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 5, 8.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40o. - Discrimination prohibited. Waiver of rights void.

(a) No employer shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, or in any manner discriminate against any employee who exercises the rights afforded to him pursuant to the provisions of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive, nor shall any pay, position, seniority or other benefits to which the employee may be entitled be lost because the employee exercised the rights provided by said sections.
(b) Any waiver by an employee or applicant for employment of the benefits or requirements of the provisions of sections 31-40j to 31-40p, inclusive, shall be against public policy and shall be null and void. Any employer's request or requirement that an employee waive any rights provided under said sections as a condition of employment shall constitute an act of discrimination, for purposes of this section.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 6, 8.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40p. - Severability.

If any section, clause or provision of sections 31-40j to 31-40o, inclusive, shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and effective and no other section, clause or provision shall on account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.
(P.A. 82-251, S. 7, 8.)
History: P.A. 82-251 effective July 1, 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40s. - Smoking or use of tobacco products outside of the workplace.

(a) No employer or agent of any employer shall require, as a condition of employment, that any employee or prospective employee refrain from smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of his employment, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment for smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of his employment, provided any nonprofit organization or corporation whose primary purpose is to discourage use of tobacco products by the general public shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.
(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect (1) the provisions of section 31-40q, (2) municipal hiring practices involving paid firefighters and paid police officers, and (3) any collective bargaining agreement between a municipality and paid firefighters or paid police officers.
(P.A. 91-271, S. 3; P.A. 03-45, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 03-45 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 31-40r in Subsec. (b)(1).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40t. - Employee's right to act in case of hazardous conditions. Complaints to and investigations by Labor Commissioner. Hearings. Regulations.

Section 31-40t is repealed, effective June 6, 2016.
(P.A. 91-33; P.A. 92-27; P.A. 95-79, S. 110, 189; P.A. 16-169, S. 35.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-40u. - Regulations establishing guidelines for use of video display terminals in state facilities.

Section 31-40u is repealed, effective May 23, 2022.
(P.A. 93-228, S. 29, 35; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 22-67, S. 17.)
2023 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.
2023 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, and provided there is no undue hardship, such room or other location shall (1) be free from intrusion and shielded from the public while such employee expresses breast milk, (2) include or be situated near a refrigerator or employee-provided portable cold storage device in which the employee can store her breast milk, and (3) include access to an electrical outlet.
(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; P.A. 21-27, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 21-27 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdivs. (1) to (3) re requirements for room or other location where employee can express breast milk, provided there is no undue hardship.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 31 - Labor › Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation › Section 31-46 and 31-46a. - Safety regulations for workmen in building operations. Regulations for safe working conditions where no other provision; industrial safety committee.

Sections 31-46 and 31-46a are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 7359; 1951, S. 3012d; 1959, P.A. 525; 1961, P.A. 248; 1971, P.A. 870, S. 88; P.A. 73-379, S. 20, 21.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)