Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 556 · 61 active provisions
There shall be a Labor Department. The department head shall be the Labor Commissioner, who shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5, 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8.
(a) The Labor Commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring individuals and the means of promoting their material, social and intellectual prosperity, and may summon and examine under oath such witnesses, and may direct the production of, and examine or c…
Section 31-2c is repealed, effective October 1, 1998.
Section 31-2d is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.
(a) The Labor Commissioner shall, within available appropriations, establish the Office of the Unemployed Workers' Advocate within the Labor Department to provide assistance to individuals who are unemployed. (b) The Office of the Unemployed Workers' Advocate may: (1) Assist unemployed individuals seeking benefits admi…
The Labor Commissioner is authorized to investigate the wages, hours of employment, necessary expense of living and health, so far as affected by their employment, of wage-earning persons in stores, wholesale and retail, public utilities, photographic, undertaking, millinery and dressmakers' establishments, hotels, res…
Section 31-3a is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.
(a) The Labor Commissioner may contract with any public or private agency for educational and job training services. (b) The Labor Commissioner may accept and receive funds from any public or private source which become available for the purposes of this section and section 31-3d.
Section 31-3c is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.
(a) The Labor Commissioner shall develop and implement work training opportunities programs in cooperation with municipalities, public and private agencies and business and industry in order to expand education, training, supportive services and job development for the placement of the chronically unemployed with speci…
Section 31-3e is repealed.
The Labor Commissioner shall create an employment training benefits voucher. Such voucher shall state that the holder of the voucher is eligible for those training and benefit programs administered by the commissioner which are noted on the voucher and that any employer may take advantage of any such program if he empl…
Section 31-3g is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.
(a) There is created, within the Office of Workforce Strategy, the Governor's Workforce Council. The Governor's Workforce Council shall constitute a successor council to the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d and 4-39. (b) The duties and responsibilities o…
(a) Pursuant to Section 101 of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, P.L. 113-128, the members of the Governor's Workforce Council shall be: (1) The Governor; (2) A member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, and a member of the Senate, appoi…
As used in this section and sections 31-3k to 31-3o, inclusive, and 31-3r: (1) “Board” means a regional workforce development board established under section 31-3k; (2) “Commissioner” means the Labor Commissioner; (3) “Municipality” means a town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and boroug…
(a) There is established within the Labor Department a regional workforce development board for each workforce development region in the state. (b) Each board, within its region, in accordance with the Connecticut workforce development plan approved by the Governor and developed by the Governor's Workforce Council purs…
The members of a board shall be appointed by the chief elected officials of the municipalities in the region in accordance with the provisions of an agreement entered into by such municipalities. In the absence of an agreement the appointments shall be made by the Governor. The membership of each board shall satisfy th…
Not later than July 1, 1992, the Governor shall designate appropriate state agencies as agencies involved in employment and training. The department heads of each agency involved in employment and training shall: Not later than August 15, 1992, and annually thereafter, identify to the commissioner and the Chief Workfor…
(a) The commissioner, in consultation with the Chief Workforce Officer and the Governor's Workforce Council, may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the provisions of sections 31-3j to 31-3o, inclusive, and 31-3r. (b) The Chief Workforce Officer shall distribute all information received under t…
The Governor's Workforce Council shall ensure that the membership of each board satisfies the representation requirements of section 31-3l, regulations adopted by the commissioner under section 31-3n and guidance issued pursuant to section 4-124w in accordance with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Nothing in this section or sections 31-3j to 31-3o, inclusive, shall be construed or administered in any manner that would conflict with the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act or supersede any statutory duties, responsibilities or obligations of any agency or board, including, but not limited…
Section 31-3s is repealed, effective July 1, 1995.
Within available resources, the Labor Commissioner shall establish a job training and retraining program designed specifically for unemployed persons (1) against whom an order for support of minor children has been issued and (2) who owe overdue support.
Section 31-3u is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.