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My law partner, Gabe Jiran, talks today about whether it’s all that easy to change the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.  Is it just as easy as a vote? Or does it require something more? The answer has implications for all employers.   With all of the talk about the financial difficulties faced by the government, I, and others in here, sometimes get the question of whether the State of Connecticut or other states might try to change the laws on collective bargaining or try to pass legislation to alter the terms of its existing collective bargaining agreements. Other states have started down this road, but it is not that easy. Recently, the Connecticut Attorney General was asked to opine on whether the General Assembly could statutorily change the contracts covering State employees to address the fiscal crisis.  A link to the opinion is here. The short answer is that the State could do so, such as by passing a statute that wage increases be delayed or elimi...

“Technology is a wonderful thing but it’s scary when it’s weaponized against you.” The first sign that my wife’s identity and my own were under attack came innocently enough. It was an e-mail alert that we get from time to time from Comcast, so innocent that I almost ignored it.  But it said our password had been changed.  When we tried to log-in to download e-mail, the system indicated the password was incorrect. “That’s weird”, we thought. I mean, we have two factor authentication on it so that if someone DOES try to change the password, shouldn’t they need a code? So I called Comcast and was assured repeated that our password wasn’t changed and our account was not compromised. They said it was a phishing exercise and the e-mails were fake too. As for the account access, they said that someone may have just tried to access it but they were unsuccessful. Comcast easily reset the password for me and since two factor a...