Did You Know About These Labor Laws?

The Connecticut Labor & Employment Law Journal recently completed a six-part series of blog postings on state employment laws that employers might be violating without even knowing it.  Among the many laws highlighted are those requiring employers to:

1. pay employees on a weekly basis unless they receive permission from the labor commissioner;
2. advise employees, at their time of hiring, on the rate and schedule of wage payments and hours of employment;
3. get written authorization from employees before making certain payroll deductions;
4. state on any disciplinary documentation, termination notice, or performance evaluation the employee’s right to submit a disagreeing written statement;
5. publish or publicly display a privacy protection policy on collecting Social Security numbers that (a) protects the numbers’ confidentiality, (b) prohibits their unlawful disclosure, and (c) limits access to them; and
6. give prior notice to employees if their activities will be electronically monitored, including logging Internet activity, surveillance cameras in non-public areas, and telephones that log or record calls.

Curated by attorneys at Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C., the Connecticut Labor & Employment Law Journal is a labor and employment law blog for employers, personnel managers, and labor relations directors.