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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 ...

Manhattan da, that's a political office, this case could be a big case if you're taking the president of the united states down into a criminal matter. the question i have i guess as a nonlawyer is what's the penalty for this kind of case? >> so that really depends on how it's ultimately structured. if they were able to make some sort of a tax charge here, which we don't know. we don't know if they have tax records, we could be looking at a lengthy violation for a felony. it's certainly not a misdemeanor. the felony crime is a serious one, it carries a lot of collateral consequences but most s...

The american bar association talking about once you've been incarcerated for a low level drug crime, there's 40,000 collateral consequences that impacted your life. jobs, pell grants, loans from banks. do you think -- yes or no -- this system of mass incarceration has disproportionately benefitted african american communities? yes or no. >> i think the reduction in crime has since 1992, but i think that the heavy drug penalti penalties especially on crack and other things have harmed the black community. the incarceration rates have harmed the black community. >> i would conclude to my chairma...

There are 40,000 collateral consequences that impact your life. jobs, pell grants, loans from banks. do you think, just yes or no that, this system of mass incarceration has disproportionately benefitted african-american communities? >> i think the reduction in crime has since 1992, but i think that the heavy drug penalties, especially on crack and other things, have harmed the black community, the incarceration rates. >> and i would just conclude to my chairman and partner, thank you, sir. i'm grateful for this bipartisan group, for the heritage foundation. i've spoken at the aei conference, ...

That's why the expungement work is so important, second chances is so important, and hiring people with criminal records is so important as well because what happens is people get out of prison. they think it's over, and they can go about with their life, but there are so many collateral consequences, 50,000 or more to a criminal conviction that it keeps them from succeeding, and oftentimes leads them back into prison, which is not an outcome anyone wants. >> here's another aspect of it. there is a labor shortage in this country. it would seem to be a bit of a no-brainer that if you can someho...