Title 31, Title 31: Labor

Sec. 31-51oo. Family and medical leave: Confidentiality of medical records and documents. Records and documents relating to medical certifications, recertifications or medical histories of employees or employees' family members, created for purposes of sections 5-248a, 31-49f to …

Sec. 31-51p. Membership in health care center as part of health benefits plan. (a) All employers subject to the provisions of chapter 567 employing twenty-five or more employees shall, at the request of a health care center, include in any health benefits plan offered to their em…

Sec. 31-51pp. Family and medical leave: Prohibited acts, complaints, rights and remedies. (a)(1) It shall be a violation of sections 5-248a, 31-49e to 31-49t, inclusive, and 31-51kk to 31-51qq, inclusive, for any employer to interfere with, restrain or deny the exercise of, or th…

Sec. 31-51q. Liability of employer for discipline or discharge of employee on account of employee's exercise of certain constitutional rights or employee's refusal to attend employer-sponsored meeting or listen to speech relating to employer's opinion on political or religious ma…

Sec. 31-51qq. Family and medical leave: Regulations. Not later than January 1, 2022, the Labor Commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to establish procedures and guidelines necessary to implement the provisions of sections 31-51kk t…

Sec. 31-51r. Execution of employment promissory note prohibited. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Employer” means any person engaged in business who has twenty-six or more employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof. (2) “Employee” means any person engag…

Sec. 31-51rr. Family and medical leave benefits for employees of political subdivisions. (a) Each political subdivision of the state shall provide the same family and medical leave benefits under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, P.L. 103-3, and 29 CFR 825.112 to (1) any …

Sec. 31-51s. Notice to retired employees of sale of employer's business and effect on retirement benefits. At least thirty days prior to the intended date of sale of any business in this state which (1) employs twenty-five or more employees and (2) has retirees from such employme…

Sec. 31-51ss. Leave from employment for victims of family violence or sexual assault. Action for damages and reinstatement. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Employer” means a person engaged in business who has three or more employees, including the state and any politic…

Sec. 31-51t. Drug testing: Definitions. For the purposes of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive: (1) “Employee” means any individual currently employed or formerly employed and currently being rehired by the same employer within twelve months of terminating his employment, and …

Sec. 31-51tt. Employer inquiries about an employee's or prospective employee's credit. Exceptions. Enforcement. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Employee” means any person engaged in service to an employer in a business of his employer; (2) “Employer” means any person engaged in…

Sec. 31-51u. Drug testing: Requirements. (a) No employer may determine an employee's eligibility for promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary or other adverse personnel action solely on the basis of a positive urinalysis drug test result unless (1) …

Sec. 31-51uu. Optional exclusion of employee health insurance premiums from gross income. Any employer that provides health insurance benefits to its employees for which any portion of the premiums are deducted from the employees' pay shall offer such employees the opportunity to…

Sec. 31-51v. Drug testing: Prospective employees. No employer may require a prospective employee to submit to a urinalysis drug test as part of the application procedure for employment with such employer unless (1) the prospective employee is informed in writing at the time of ap…

Sec. 31-51vv. Employment of person coerced to engage in such employment prohibited. (a) No employer shall employ any person knowing that such person is being coerced by another person to engage in such employment in violation of section 53a-192a. (b) The Attorney General, upon th…

Sec. 31-51w. Drug testing: Observation prohibited. Privacy of results. (a) No employer or employer representative, agent or designee engaged in a urinalysis drug testing program shall directly observe an employee or prospective employee in the process of producing the urine speci…

Secs. 31-51ww to 31-51fff. Individual development account programs: Definitions. Connecticut IDA Initiative established; implementation. Eligibility; duties of community-based organizations and financial institutions. Individual Development Account Reserve Fund: Funds deposited i…

Sec. 31-51x. Drug testing: Reasonable suspicion required. Random tests. (a) No employer may require an employee to submit to a urinalysis drug test unless the employer has reasonable suspicion that the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol which adversely affects or…

Sec. 31-51y. Drug testing: Medical screenings, regulation of employees and testing of gaming participants permitted. (a) Nothing in sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive, shall prevent an employer from conducting medical screenings, with the express written consent of the employe…

Sec. 31-51z. Drug testing: Enforcement. Damages. (a) Any aggrieved person may enforce the provisions of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclusive, by means of a civil action. Any employer, laboratory or medical facility that violates any provision of sections 31-51t to 31-51aa, inclu…

Sec. 31-52. Preference to state citizens in construction of public buildings. Enforcement of violations. (a) In the employment of mechanics, laborers and workmen in the construction, remodeling or repairing of any public building, by the state or any of its agents or by persons c…

Sec. 31-52a. Residents' preference in work on other public facilities. (a) In the employment of mechanics, laborers or workmen in connection with any public works project, including, but not limited to, construction, remodeling or repairing of any public facility, structure, exce…

Sec. 31-52b. Exceptions. The provisions of sections 31-52 and 31-52a shall not apply where the state or any subdivision thereof may suffer the loss of revenue granted or to be granted from any agency or department of the federal government as a result of said sections or regulati…

Sec. 31-53. Construction, alteration or repair of public works project by state or political subdivision; wage rates; certified payroll. Penalties. Civil action. Exceptions. (a) Each contract for the construction, remodeling, refinishing, refurbishing, rehabilitation, alteration …

Sec. 31-53a. Distribution of accrued payments. Debarment list. Limitation on awarding contracts. Sworn affidavits required of subcontractors. Civil penalty. Right of action. (a) The State Comptroller or the contracting authority acting pursuant to section 31-53 is hereby authoriz…

Sec. 31-53b. Worker training requirements for public works projects. Enforcement. Regulations. Exceptions. (a) Each contract for a public works project entered into on or after July 1, 2009, by the state or any of its agents, or by any political subdivision of the state or any of…

Sec. 31-53c. Construction projects funded by the Department of Economic and Community Development; wage rates. Penalties. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Business organization” means any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association,…

Sec. 31-53d. Renewable energy and hydrogen projects. Community benefits agreement. Workforce development program. Contractor sworn certification. Wages. Penalties. Exceptions. (a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Covered project” means a renewa…

Sec. 31-54. Rate of wages for work on state highways. The Labor Commissioner shall determine the prevailing rate of wages upon any highway contract within any specified area on an hourly basis and the amount of payment or contributions paid or payable on behalf of each employee t…

Sec. 31-55. Posting of wage rates by contractors doing state work. Every contractor or subcontractor performing work for the state subject to the provisions of section 31-53 or 31-54 shall post the prevailing wages as determined by the Labor Commissioner in prominent and easily a…

Sec. 31-55a. Annual adjustments to wage rates by contractors doing state work. Each contractor that is awarded a contract on or after October 1, 2002, for (1) the construction of a state highway or bridge that falls under the provisions of section 31-54, or (2) the construction, …

Sec. 31-56. Hours of labor on state bridges. Section 31-56 is repealed, effective October 1, 2008. (1949 Rev., S. 2208; 1963, P.A. 240, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 261; P.A. 08-101, S. 31.)

Sec. 31-56a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections 31-56b and 31-56c: (1) “Project labor agreement” means a prehire agreement covering the terms and conditions for all persons who will perform work on a specific public works project; (2) “Public entity” means…

Sec. 31-56b. Project labor agreements for public works projects. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, regulation or requirement regarding procurement of goods or services, a public entity may require a project labor agreement for any public works project whe…

Sec. 31-56c. Use of project labor agreement re public school design-build contract. Prior to a public entity entering into a design-build contract for new construction of a public school or for renovation or reconstruction of an existing public school with a value greater than or…

Sec. 31-56d. Severability. The provisions of sections 31-56b and 31-56c are severable and if any provision is determined to contravene state or federal law, the remainder of sections 31-56b and 31-56c shall remain in full force and effect. (P.A. 12-70, S. 7.) History: P.A. 12-70 …

Sec. 31-57. Hours of labor on construction, alteration or repair of public works project. Each contract entered into by the Commissioner of Administrative Services for the construction, alteration or repair of any public works project shall contain a provision to the effect that …

Sec. 31-57a. Awarding of contracts to National Labor Relations Act violators prohibited. Section 31-57a is repealed, effective June 18, 2013. (P.A. 79-390, S. 1, 2; P.A. 13-140, S. 22.)

Sec. 31-57aa. Relocation of call center to foreign country. Notice to commissioner. Penalty. Annual list. Ineligibility for state financial support. State contracts. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Call center” means a facility or other operation through which employees re…

Sec. 31-57b. Awarding of contracts to occupational safety and health law violators prohibited. No contract shall be awarded by the state or any of its political subdivisions to any person or firm or any firm, corporation, partnership or association in which such persons or firms …

Sec. 31-57c. Disqualification of certain contractors from bidding on, applying for or participating in state public works contracts: Disqualification by Commissioner of Administrative Services; procedure; causes. Exception. (a) As used in this section, “contractor” means any pers…

Sec. 31-57d. Disqualification of certain contractors from bidding on, applying for or participating in public works contracts with the state: Disqualification by Commissioner of Transportation; procedure; causes. Exception permitting disqualified contractor to participate in cont…

Sec. 31-57e. Contracts between the state and federally recognized Indian tribes. Employment Rights Code; protection of persons employed by a tribe. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Commercial enterprise” means any form of commercial conduct or a particular commercial transaction…

Sec. 31-57f. Standard wage rate for certain service workers. Definitions. Standard rate required. Civil penalty. Complaints. Determination of standard rate by Labor Commissioner. Effect on employers bound by collective bargaining agreements. Recordkeeping requirement. Penalty for…

Sec. 31-57g. Employment protection for displaced service contract workers at Bradley International Airport. Definitions. Obligations of awarding authority and contractors upon termination of service contract; ninety-day retention requirement; required offer of continued employmen…

Sec. 31-57h. Joint enforcement commission on employee misclassification. Members. Duties. Report. (a) There is established a joint enforcement commission on employee misclassification. The commission shall consist of the Labor Commissioner, the Commissioner of Revenue Services, t…