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Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for Connecticut’s coming paid family and medical leave program and is no reason to delay its implementation.
Published December 31. 2020 10:38AM | Updated December 31. 2020 2:34PM
Mark Pazniokas, The Connecticut Mirror
Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for Connecticut s coming paid family and medical leave program and is no reason to delay its implementation. I think we ve learned over the course of the last nine and a half months in COVID that, surely, paid medical leave makes so much sense, Lamont said. Because otherwise, people show up to work sick. And that s the last thing you want, especially in this time.
The new program, however, offers no pandemic relief.
Benefits under the program will not be available until Jan. 1, 2022, but payroll deductions to fund it begin Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. The deduction will be 0.5% of the first $142,800 of wages, the same amount subject to Social Security taxes.
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