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I’ll never forget the day I drove into Newtown, Connecticut.  As NBC 30’s Gerry Brooks tweeted this morning: How could you? It was probably the first time I had made my way to that town outside of Danbury. But that wasn’t the reason I remember that day. It was the empty hearse outside a church. Outside a Newtown church It was the massive flag on the history Newtown flagpole at half-mast, blowing in the wind on a crisp December day. It was the countless makeshift memorials and signs reading “Pray for Newtown” that dotted the road. And it was days after one of the worst events in Connecticut and in the nation’s history. Today marks five years since that awful, despicable day in Newtown when 26 children and adults were shot and killed in Newtown. And in the days afterwards, I went to Newtown to deliver dozens upon dozens of gift cards that my wife and I collected in 48 hours after that tragedy from friends, friends of friends, and others. ...

Last year I talked about how the new era of sexual harassment claims was coming.  The open question was: Would the number of claims actually increase? The answer to that is now known: Yes. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its preliminary data regarding workplace harassment today. And it’s findings shouldn’t be a surprise if you’ve been paying attention. Among the notable pieces of data: Charges filed with the EEOC alleging sexual harassment increased by more than 12 percent from FY 2017. The EEOC recovered nearly $70M for victims of sexual harassment through administrative enforcement and litigation, up from $47.5M in FY2017. Reasonable cause findings in harassment claims increased to nearly 1200, up from 900 in FY 2017. And public interest is skyrocketing: The EEOC’s website traffic to its sexual harassment page more than doubled in the last year. In Connecticut, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities hasn’t yet rele...

Has it really been a dozen years? Yes, it was 12 years ago today that I clicked “Publish” and put up my Welcome message to the Connecticut Employment Law Blog. At the time, I was the first platform to discuss employment law issues with a focus on Connecticut. Now, it seems like every lawfirm has taken its newsletters and slapped a “blog” label on it and voila! Lots of employment law blogs. What’s interesting about having a blog for so long though is that you really do start to build up a perspective that’s hard to see on the day-to-day frontlines.  My earlier posts had no mention of the impact that social media was having in the workplace because, well, it wasn’t having any.   Twitter had just launched the year before and no one was using smartphones to access the internet either. And data privacy? Fight for $15? Paid FMLA? All concepts really in the 2010s. It is pretty remarkable how much has shifted over time.  Heck, we...