Rojgar Job News

As if the pandemic weren’t disorienting enough, the rules and guidance surrounding unemployment compensation feels as if it keeps changing too. While that’s not entirely accurate — Connecticut’s rules are basically unchanged though some of the application of those rules have been tweaked — the new CARES Act has added a layer of complexity that we are only now beginning to sort out. Add to that new guidance released Saturday evening (here) and even more new guidance released by the Department of Labor on Sunday evening, and that’s when things have gotten messy. I can’t recap everything in a single blog post but my partner Peter Murphy has some additional guidance on this issue as well in a post today.   For Connecticut employers, your first resource  must be the CTDOL FAQ that I’ve highlighted before.   For unemployment related to layoffs and terminations,  the rules are still relatively straightforward....