WPBN: There are a number of new legislation that will go into effect in Connecticut in the year 2025, including hikes in the minimum wage and expanded paid sick days.
The following is a list of some of them that might have an effect on your life.
Increases in the minimum wage
The minimum wage in Connecticut is scheduled to grow to $16.35 per hour on January 1, 2025, from its current rate of $15.69 per hour.
During the year 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont gave his signature to Public Act 19-4, which established five incremental increases in the minimum wage between the years 2019 and 2023.
These increases were followed by changes in the future that were connected to the percentage change in the federal employment cost index.
Paid sick days that are expanded
In the month of May, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut signed a piece of legislation that “strengthens the state’s laws regarding paid sick days protections by expanding them to ensure that more workers are covered and have access to them.”
Employers who have more than fifty workers, the majority of whom are employed in certain retail and service occupations, are required by the rules that are now in place in the state to offer their workers with up to forty hours of paid sick leave on an annual basis.
When the laws go into effect on January 1, 2025, they will be applicable to workers in virtually every occupation.
“Our existing paid sick days laws include important protections for certain workers, however there are broad categories left unprotected, and this update will expand this coverage to help ensure that people do not have to choose between going to work sick and sacrificing a day’s wage,” Lamont explained to reporters.
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Restriction of voting methods by mail
The citizens of Connecticut voted in favor of an amendment to the state constitution on Election Day. This amendment has the potential to make it simpler for voters to cast their ballots through drop boxes or through the mail in future elections.
There were long-standing restrictions that only allowed persons in the state to vote by absentee ballot if they were going to be out of town, if they were sick or disabled, or if they were unable to attend to a polling station due to religious restrictions. The amendment relaxes these limits.
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An act of coerced debt
The act makes it illegal for anyone to knowingly make another person liable for “coerced debt” beginning on January 1, 2025. This specifically refers to some credit card debt that was incurred by a victim of domestic abuse who was coerced into incurring it.
“Specifically, if a victim gives a claimant certain information and documentation that a debt is coerced debt, the claimant must pause all collection activities on the debt for at least 60 days, review the victim’s submission and other available information it has, and then continue or end its collection based on the review,” according to the proposed legislation.
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Assistance with the repayment of student loans
The Pennsylvania 24-52—sSB 13 legislation “expands the student loan payment tax credit for qualified employers that make eligible student loan payments on a qualified employee’s behalf.”
