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Rich Cosgrove: Women's suffrage and the growth of women's rights Rich Cosgrove Remembering the progress of women’s suffrage in the United States is precisely to what Women’s History Month is dedicated. Although there has been much improvement in how women are treated in the real estate community, there was a time where women did not have the same fair and equal treatment as our male counterparts. On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified after nearly a century of continuous protests from women in the United States. This amendment gave women the right to vote, and later the right t...

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...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 ...

Democratic leaders of the legislature’s public health committee said Wednesday they will again push a bill to end religious exemptions for vaccinations among Connecticut schoolchildren over Republican objections that the committee should focus on less controversial and coronavirus-related matters.