Comptroller fixes payroll glitch and will start withholding state employee pay for Connecticut s family and medical leave program courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Employers need to educate their workers and stay up-to-date on changes in Connecticut’s new Paid Family Medical Leave Act to avoid pitfalls that could result in expensive penalties, HR consulting firm Mercer warned at an event on Wednesday.
More than 300 registered for a Mercer webcast on the new leave program, which required employers to start withholding employee contributions on Jan. 1. The deduction was set at 0.5% of the first $142,800 of wages, with most employees eligible, including part-time and seasonal workers.
Although employees pay for the new program through their contributions, employers are responsible for administering it and should consider third-party vendors as the task becomes more complex, said Rich Fuerstenberg, a senior partner at Mercer.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Employers can expect an active 2021 Connecticut General Assembly since the 2020 legislative session was cut short. (The session lasted a little over a month before it was suspended on March 12, 2020, due to the pandemic and then officially adjourned on May 6, 2020.)
This year’s session commenced on January 6, 2021, and it will adjourn on June 9, 2021. However, before the legislative session even started, Connecticut employers had to address a new 0.5 percent payroll deduction for employees to support the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act program (although the benefits of the program are not available until 2022) and an increase to the minimum wage ($13.00 per hour on August 1, 2021). With the legislative session now underway, here are a few employment-related legislative efforts that employers will want to keep an eye on.
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Employers can expect an active 2021 Connecticut General Assembly since the 2020 legislative session was cut short. (The session lasted a little over a month before it was suspended on March 12, 2020, due to the pandemic and then officially adjourned on May 6, 2020.)
This year’s session commenced on January 6, 2021, and it will adjourn on June 9, 2021. However, before the legislative session even started, Connecticut employers had to address a new 0.5 percent payroll deduction for employees to support the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act program (although the benefits of the program are not available until 2022) and an increase to the minimum wage ($13.00 per hour on August 1, 2021). With the legislative session now underway, here are a few employment-related legislative efforts that employers will want to keep an eye on.