Title 5, Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-264a. Deferred compensation plan for state employees or employees of political subdivisions of the state. Administration. (a) The state or any political subdivision of the state may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in whole or in part, any portion of such em…

Sec. 5-264b. Dependent care spending account program. The Comptroller shall maintain a dependent care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and regulations adopted pursuant to such section. Under such prog…

Sec. 5-264c. Treatment of funds deposited in dependent care spending account program. All funds deposited in this program pursuant to section 5-264b shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator as agent for the participating employer. Such funds shall be separat…

Sec. 5-264d. Flexible health care spending account program. The Comptroller shall maintain a flexible health care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Sections 105 and 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal re…

Sec. 5-264e. Treatment of funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program. All funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program established in section 5-264d shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator …

Sec. 5-265. Special training courses for state employees. Exchange of employees. Departments, agencies and institutions may enter into agreements with educational institutions for special training courses for state employees and may enter into agreements with the federal governme…

Sec. 5-266. Political activity. Section 5-266 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 72; 1971, P.A. 103, S. 5.)

Sec. 5-266a. Political activities of classified state employees and Judicial Department employees. Candidacy for office. Leave of absence or resignation upon taking elective office. (a) No person employed in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department may (1) use h…

Sec. 5-266b. Permitted activity. Nothing contained in sections 5-266a to 5-266d, inclusive, prohibits political activity by such persons in the classified service in connection with (1) an election and the campaign preceding such election if none of the candidates is to be electe…

Sec. 5-266c. Regulations. Section 5-266c is repealed, effective June 11, 2014. (1971, P.A. 103, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 13-247, S. 372; P.A. 14-187, S. 55.)

Sec. 5-266d. Dismissal or suspension of employee. Appeal. If, upon the complaint of any citizen of the state, the Commissioner of Administrative Services finds that any employee in the classified service has violated any provision of section 5-266a, said commissioner may dismiss …

Sec. 5-267. Officers, appointing authorities and employees to comply with law. All officers, appointing authorities and other state employees shall conform to, comply with and aid in carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter and the regulations issued hereunder. When an…

Sec. 5-268. Penalty. Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates, or who conspires to violate, any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both. Prosecutions for violations of this c…

Sec. 5-269. Transfer of certain employees to Labor Department. Section 5-269 is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (P.A. 73-449, S. 1; P.A. 96-180, S. 165, 166.)

Sec. 5-270. Collective bargaining. Definitions. When used in sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive: (a) “Employer” means the state of Connecticut, its executive and judicial branches, including, without limitation, any board, department, commission, institution, or agency of such br…

Sec. 5-271. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation. (a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist any employee organization, to bargain collectively through representatives…

Sec. 5-272. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations. (a) Employers or their representatives or agents are prohibited from: (1) Interfering with, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 5-271 including a lockout; (2) do…

Sec. 5-273. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations. The State Board of Labor Relations shall administer sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, as follows: (a) The board shall exercise those powers and perform those duties which are specifically provided for in said sections. Those…

Sec. 5-274. Prohibited practice questions determined by State Board of Labor Relations. Whenever a question arises as to whether a practice prohibited by sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, has been committed by an employer or employee organization, the board shall consider that …

Sec. 5-275. Employee organization designated as exclusive representative. Bargaining unit determination. Petitions seeking clarification or modification of existing units. (a)(1) On and after October 1, 1975, any interested organization may notify the State Board of Labor Relatio…

Sec. 5-276. Mediation and arbitration services by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. (a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall be available to employers or employee organizations designated as the exclusive bargaining representative for purpose…

Sec. 5-276a. Timetable for negotiations between employer and designated employee organization. Mediation. Elective binding arbitration; procedure. (a) In the event that either the employer, as defined in subsection (a) of section 5-270, or a designated employee organization, as d…

Sec. 5-276b. Interest charges on overdue arbitration settlement payments. (a) Whenever a monetary settlement is awarded pursuant to an interest arbitration proceeding conducted pursuant to section 5-276a, and such award is not rejected by the legislature pursuant to section 5-278…

Sec. 5-277. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. Section 5-277 is repealed. (P.A. 75-566, S. 8; P.A. 86-411, S. 7, 8.)

Sec. 5-278. Determination of employer representative. Negotiations and agreements with employee representative. Arbitration awards. Approval of agreements and awards by General Assembly. Conflicts with statutes, acts or agency regulations. (a) When an employee organization has be…

Sec. 5-278a. Certain provisions of collective bargaining agreement to remain in effect. In the event an agreement expires before a new agreement has been approved by the employee organization, the employer representative and the legislature, the provisions of the expired agreemen…

Sec. 5-278b. Limitation on terms of collective bargaining agreements. On and after June 30, 2027, no agreement negotiated pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of section 5-278 shall be for a term of more than four years. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 218.) History: June S…

Sec. 5-279. Strikes by state employees prohibited. Nothing in sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, shall constitute a grant of the right to strike to state employees and such strikes are prohibited. (P.A. 75-566, S. 10.)

Sec. 5-280. Payment of dues to exclusive representative required. (a) If an exclusive representative has been designated for the employees in an appropriate collective bargaining unit, each employee in such unit who is not a member of the exclusive representative shall be require…