Title 31 — Title 31: Labor

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…

Sec. 31-57i. Employee Misclassification Advisory Board. Members. Duties. There is established the Employee Misclassification Advisory Board to advise the joint enforcement commission on employee misclassification established pursuant to section 31-57h on misclassification in the …

Secs. 31-57j to 31-57q. Reserved for future use. PART IV GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 31-57r. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 31-57s to 31-57w, inclusive: (1) “Child” means (A) a biological, adopted or foster child, stepchild or legal ward of an employee, (B) a child of an employee standing in loco parentis, or (C) an individual to whom the …

Sec. 31-57s. Employer requirement to provide sick leave to employees. Use of leave. Employer compliance. Rate of pay during leave. (a) Each employer shall provide paid sick leave annually to each of such employer's employees in the state. Such paid sick leave shall accrue (1) (A)…

Sec. 31-57t. Permitted uses for sick leave. (a) An employer shall permit an employee to use the paid sick leave accrued pursuant to section 31-57s: (1) For (A) an employee's illness, injury or health condition, (B) the medical diagnosis, care or treatment of an employee's mental …

Sec. 31-57u. Additional leave. Donation of unused leave. Breaks in service. (a) Nothing in sections 31-57s to 31-57w, inclusive, shall be construed to (1) prevent employers from providing more paid sick leave than is required under said sections, (2) diminish any rights provided …

Sec. 31-57v. Retaliatory personnel action prohibited. Filing of complaint with Labor Commissioner. Hearing. Penalties. (a) No employer shall take retaliatory personnel action or discriminate against an employee because the employee (1) requests or uses paid sick leave either in a…

Sec. 31-57w. Notice to service workers of sick leave requirements. Employer record keeping. Regulations. (a) Each employer subject to the provisions of section 31-57s shall, at the time of hiring, provide notice to each employee (1) of (A) the entitlement to paid sick leave for e…

Sec. 31-57x. Paid family and medical leave program. Implementation plan. Report. (a) The Labor Commissioner, in consultation with the State Treasurer, the State Comptroller and the Commissioner of Administrative Services, shall establish the procedures necessary to implement a pa…

Sec. 31-57y. Unpaid time off for purposes of voting at an election. From June 23, 2021, to June 30, 2024, each employer shall grant to (1) each employee in the case of a state election, or (2) each employee who is an elector in the case of any special election for United States s…

Sec. 31-57z. Education assistance programs. Notice to employees. (a) Not later than December 1, 2021, and annually thereafter until December 1, 2024, each employer in the state with one hundred or more employees shall notify the employees of such employer who are residents of the…

Sec. 31-58. Definitions. As used in this part: (a) “Commissioner” means the Labor Commissioner; (b) “Fair wage” means a wage fairly and reasonably commensurate with the value of a particular service or class of service rendered, and, in establishing a minimum fair wage for such s…

Sec. 31-58a. Minimum wage for minors in government or agricultural employment. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (i) of section 31-58, minors between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years who are employees of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be pai…

Sec. 31-59. Investigation. The commissioner or any authorized representative of the commissioner shall have authority: (a) To investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the state; (b) to enter the place of business or employment of any employer o…

Sec. 31-60. Payment of less than minimum or overtime wage. Regulations. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (5) of subsection (i) of section 31-58, any employer who pays or agrees to pay to an employee less than the minimum fair wage or overtime wage shall be deemed in violatio…

Secs. 31-61 and 31-62. Wage board. Report and regulations. Sections 31-61 and 31-62 are repealed, effective June 18, 2013. (1949 Rev., S. 3788, 3789; 1951, S. 2027d, 2028d; P.A. 13-140, S. 22.)

Sec. 31-63. Orders and appeal. Section 31-63 is repealed, effective June 23, 2015. (1949 Rev., S. 3791; 1951, S. 2029d; 1971, P.A. 870, S. 87; P.A. 74-183, S. 267, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 230, 681; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 26, 82; P.A. 88-317, S. 33, 107; P.A. 15-127, S. 5.)

Secs. 31-64 and 31-65. Reconsideration of wage rates. Modification of orders. Sections 31-64 and 31-65 are repealed, effective June 18, 2013. (1949 Rev., S. 3792, 3793; 1951, S. 2030d, 2031d; P.A. 13-140, S. 22.)

Sec. 31-66. Employers' records. Orders to be posted. Each employer subject to the provisions of this part, unless exempted by regulation issued by the commissioner or as hereinafter provided, shall keep at the place of employment for a period of three years a true and accurate re…

Sec. 31-67. Exception for person with impaired capacity. The commissioner may cause to be issued, to any person whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury, a special license authorizing employment at such wages less than the minimum fair …

Sec. 31-68. Collection of minimum or overtime wage. Class action certifications. Collection of wages for employee whose whereabouts are unknown. (a)(1) If any employee is paid by his or her employer less than the minimum fair wage or overtime wage to which he or she is entitled u…

Sec. 31-68a. Enforcement of chapter. The Labor Commissioner may act as agent for or in cooperation with the federal government in the enforcement of this chapter, and as requested by the federal government to aid and assist in the effecting of payment of the prescribed minimum or…

Sec. 31-68b. Reciprocal agreements. (a) In the performance of his duties under part III of chapter 557 and this chapter, the Labor Commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the Labor Department or corresponding agency of any other state or with the person, board, off…

Sec. 31-69. Penalty. (a) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation, who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has testified or is about to testify in any investigation or proceeding under or related …

Sec. 31-69a. Additional penalty. (a) In addition to the penalties provided in this chapter and chapter 568, any employer, officer, agent or other person who violates any provision of this chapter, chapter 557 or subsection (g) of section 31-288 shall be liable to the Labor Depart…

Sec. 31-69b. Discharge, discipline, penalty or discrimination prohibited. Right of action. (a) An employer shall not discharge, discipline, penalize or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has filed a claim or instituted or caused to be instituted …

Sec. 31-70. Withholding wages. Any person who or corporation which withholds any part of the wages of any person, because of any agreement expressed or implied requiring notice before leaving the employment, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. (1949 Rev., S. 7360.) Statut…

Sec. 31-71. Weekly payment of wages; how paid when employment ends. Section 31-71 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7361, 7362; 1951, S. 3013d; 1961, P.A. 264, S. 7; 1967, P.A. 714, S. 10.)

Sec. 31-71a. Payment of wages: Definitions. As used in sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive, and section 31-71l: (1) “Employer” includes any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased pe…

Sec. 31-71b. Payment of wages. Electronic direct deposit of wages for state employees. Exemptions. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, each employer, or the agent or representative of an employer, shall pay weekly, or once every two weeks, all wages, …

Sec. 31-71c. Payment of wages on termination of employment. (a) Whenever an employee voluntarily terminates his employment, the employer shall pay the employee's wages in full not later than the next regular pay day, as designated under section 31-71b, either through the regular …

Sec. 31-71d. Payment where wages disputed. (a) In case of a dispute over the amount of wages, the employer shall pay, without condition and within the time set by sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive, all wages, or parts thereof, conceded by him to be due, and the employee shall …

Sec. 31-71e. Withholding of part of wages. No employer may withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless (1) the employer is required or empowered to do so by state or federal law, or (2) the employer has written authorization from the employee for deductions on a …

Sec. 31-71f. Employer to furnish employee certain information. (a) Each employer shall: (1) Advise his employees in writing, at the time of hiring, of the rate of remuneration, hours of employment and wage payment schedules, and (2) make available to his employees, either in writ…

Sec. 31-71g. Penalty. Any employer or any officer or agent of an employer or any other person authorized by an employer to pay wages who violates any provision of this part: (1) Shall be guilty of a class D felony, except that such employer, officer or agent shall be fined not le…

Sec. 31-71h. Regulations. The commissioner is authorized to issue regulations for the establishment of procedures for carrying out the provisions of sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive. (1967, P.A. 714, S. 8.) Cited. 212 C. 294.

Sec. 31-71i. Waiver of payment schedule requirement. The commissioner may, upon application, waive the provisions of section 31-71b with respect to any particular week or weeks, and may also, upon application, permit any employer, subject to the provisions of this section, to est…

Sec. 31-71j. Automatic enrollment retirement plans. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Automatic enrollment” means a plan provision in an employee retirement plan described in Section 401(k) or 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal r…

Sec. 31-71k. Payment of wages by payroll cards. Study of payroll card usage. Regulations. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Direct deposit” means the electronic payment of an employee's wages, salary or other compensation that is deposited into such employee's account in any bank…

Sec. 31-71l. Domestic workers education and training grants program. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Domestic worker” means any employee who is paid or who is told he or she will be paid to perform work of a domestic nature in or about a private dwelling, including, but not lim…

Sec. 31-72. Civil action to collect wage claim, fringe benefit claim or arbitration award. When any employer fails to pay an employee wages in accordance with the provisions of sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive, or fails to compensate an employee in accordance with section 31-…

Sec. 31-73. Refund of wages for furnishing employment. (a) When used in this section, “refund of wages” means: (1) The return by an employee to his employer or to any agent of his employer of any sum of money actually paid or owed to the employee in return for services performed …