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Connecticut businesses have been forced to comply with the state’s new regulation on paid family leave, but the state has been unable to figure out how to work for its non-union government employees.
More than 60,000 companies have registered with the state to introduce a mandatory 0.5 percent wage deduction for private and non-union government employees.
“It is outrageous that the state government has not yet withdrawn a penny from the paychecks of its own employees while the Paid Family Vacation Agency is urging private sector employers to comply,” House Republican Chairman Vincent Candelora said Tuesday in this letter to State Auditor Kevin Lembo. “That the state did not have a method of making its own wage deductions is further evidence that this program was not ready for prime time, and these kinds of issues related to the pandemic support the argument that the implementation of this program have should was delayed. “
A spokesman from Lembo’s office said his financial software system was “unable to accurately apply the deductions”. “It was decided to delay the process until a bespoke solution could be implemented to ensure that ineligible employees were not incriminated.”
Union-free wage deductions are now due to begin in April’s second cycle of wages for non-union government employees. A catch-up process of one percent is carried out per wage cycle in order to reach the retroactive amount by January 1st.
Late last year, Republicans repeatedly urged Governor Ned Lamont to delay implementation of the program, citing the strain on businesses and financially troubled residents.
Earlier this week, the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority held a press conference to encourage more than 44,000 companies to comply with the new program.
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