Labor & Employment

(Jan. 9, 2008) Connecticut has among the highest business costs in the U.S., which inhibits job growth and economic development. We need to avoid legislative proposals to increase costs and add burdens on employers, which would discourage businesses from remaining, relocating and growing here.

Recommendations

Maintain employers' ability to design operational and personnel workplace policies that best meet their own and employees' needs.

Reject proposals that:

Mandate paid sick leave and needlessly increase business costs and administrative burdens.

Create workplace "policing" environments that conflict with existing protections and make it harder to operate an effective workplace.

Expand ergonomics policies and ignore the effectiveness of current policies, the strict oversight of state and federal agencies, and employers' limited resources.

• Reject proposals that would repeal or undermine workers' compensation system reforms or increase workers' comp costs in other ways.
• Defeat legislation such as "captive audience" measures that would restrict employers' ability to communicate with employees about any subject that affects the company, its workers or the community.