Limitations of professional employer organization and coemployment relationship

(a) Nothing in this section or sections 31-221c to 31-221f, inclusive, or in any professional employer agreement shall: (1) Diminish existing rights between covered employees and a client existing prior to the effective date of the professional employer agreement; or (2) Create any new or additional enforceable right of a covered employee against a professional employer organization that is not specifically provided by the professional employer agreement or in this section or sections 31-221c to 31-221f, inclusive. (b) (1) A covered employee who is required to be licensed, registered or certified under any provision of the general statutes shall be deemed to be solely an employee of the client for purposes of any such license, registration or certification requirement. (2) A professional employer organization or professional employer organization group shall not be deemed to engage in any occupation, trade, profession or other activity that is subject to licensing, registration or certification requirements or is otherwise regulated by a governmental entity solely by entering into and maintaining a coemployment relationship. (c) For purposes of determination of tax credits and other economic incentives provided by this state or other governmental entity and based on employment, covered employees of the client shall be deemed employees solely of the client. (d) A client company's status or certification as a small, minority-owned, disadvantaged or woman-owned business enterprise or as a historically underutilized business shall not be affected by the client company entering into an agreement with a professional employer organization or using the services of a professional employer organization.