Rojgar Job News

Sometimes, government is thought of as the enforcer of rules.  But sometimes, the government is also in the business of helping businesses too. The latest example of this is an Employer Resource Guide put out a few weeks ago by the Connecticut Department of Labor. You can download it directly here.   According to its introduction: This employer resource guide was created to educate all employers on the wide array of programs, services, and incentives available in Connecticut. This guide will be  periodically updated, and automatically emailed to all registered employers in CTHires, ( www.cthires.com), the Department of Labor’s no cost online job bank. In addition, a link to the resource guide will be available on the Department of Labor’s website, http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/employerresourceguide.pdf. For some larger employers, much of the information contained here may not be news. But for others, there are programs that the government runs that ma...

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....