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FMLA Benefits for Certain Municipal Employees
State: Connecticut
Subject: FMLA Benefits for Certain Municipal Employees
Bill: S. 150
Sponsor: Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Date Introduced: 02/17/2012
Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees: 02/17/2012
Passed Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees: 03/06/2012
Referred to Senate Committee on Planning and Development: 04/10/2012
Reported favorably from committee:04/16/2012
Tabled for Senate Calendar: 04/18/2012
Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations: 04/20/2012
Reported Favorably from Senate Committee on Appropriations: 04/23/2012
Filed with Legislative Commissioners’ Office: 04/24/2012
Passed Senate: 04/27/2012
Passed House: 05/04/2012
Passed in concurrence: 05/04/2012
Summary:
Expands the state’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to apply to school paraprofessionals who are municipal employees and who have worked for at least 950 hours in the previous year. Also clarified that FMLA benefits are available to eligible municipal employees to care for a same sex married partner.
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