Majority of businesses complying with paid leave deductions
April 13, 2021
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) The majority of employers have so far registered with the CT Paid Leave Authority, essentially notifying officials they ve begun taking state-mandated deductions from their employees paychecks to help pay for Connecticut s new paid family and medical leave program.
Andrea Barton Reeves, the authority s CEO, said 88,139 of the state s roughly 100,000 employers had signed up as of noon Tuesday. All Connecticut employers have until the end of April to submit the one half of 1% they were supposed to have been withholding from employee wages since Jan. 1. She expects a last-minute rush of registrations from those remaining employers.
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Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo
Non-union state employees will begin paying the new income tax surcharge to support the paid family and medical leave benefits program on April 23, nearly four months into the tax year, Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo announced Tuesday.
Employees will face a proportionally higher deduction rate of 1.5% from then until June 30 to catch up on the amount owed, the comptroller added. From July 1 onward, workers will pay the normal deduction rate of 0.5%.
“It’s not a surprise it’s been difficult. We’re a larger employer,” Lembo said during a live-streamed, late-morning news conference. “And we have lots of employment rules.”
The state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Authority has so far enrolled 87,000 employers, including the state of Connecticut, CEO Andrea Barton Reeves announced Tuesday.
During a virtual press conference, Reeves said the authority has ramped up outreach efforts, including holding dozens of webinars, to get the word out about the program, which is funded through employee payroll deductions. That work resulted in a surge in enrollments since January, when only about 40,000 businesses in the state were onboard, she said.
Among the new enrollees is the state of Connecticut, which missed the initial deadline earlier this year.
The deadline for employers to sign up for the program was initially Feb. 1, but was later moved to March 1.