As used in sections 31-71a to 31-71i, inclusive, and section 31-71l:
(1) “Employer” includes any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased person, the conservator of the estate of an incompetent, or the receiver, trustee, successor or assignee of any of the same, employing any person, including the state and any political subdivision thereof;
(2) “Employee” includes any person suffered or permitted to work by an employer;
(3) “Wages” means compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission or other basis of calculation;
(4) “Commissioner” means the Labor Commissioner.
(1967, P.A. 714, S. 1; P.A. 87-366, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 87-366 amended Subdiv. (1) to include the state and its political subdivisions within “employer” definition; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 added reference to Sec. 31-71l.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 31-58a. - Minimum wage for minors in government or agricultural employment.
Section 31-59. - Investigation.
Section 31-60. - Payment of less than minimum or overtime wage. Regulations.
Section 31-61 and 31-62. - Wage board. Report and regulations.
Section 31-63. - Orders and appeal.
Section 31-64 and 31-65. - Reconsideration of wage rates. Modification of orders.
Section 31-66. - Employers' records. Orders to be posted.
Section 31-67. - Exception for person with impaired capacity.
Section 31-68a. - Enforcement of chapter.
Section 31-68b. - Reciprocal agreements.
Section 31-69a. - Additional penalty.
Section 31-69b. - Discharge, discipline, penalty or discrimination prohibited. Right of action.
Section 31-70. - Withholding wages.
Section 31-71. - Weekly payment of wages; how paid when employment ends.
Section 31-71a. - Payment of wages: Definitions.
Section 31-71c. - Payment of wages on termination of employment.
Section 31-71d. - Payment where wages disputed.
Section 31-71e. - Withholding of part of wages.
Section 31-71f. - Employer to furnish employee certain information.
Section 31-71h. - Regulations.
Section 31-71i. - Waiver of payment schedule requirement.
Section 31-71j. - Automatic enrollment retirement plans.
Section 31-71k. - Payment of wages by payroll cards. Study of payroll card usage. Regulations.
Section 31-71l. - Domestic workers education and training grants program.
Section 31-72. - Civil action to collect wage claim, fringe benefit claim or arbitration award.
Section 31-73. - Refund of wages for furnishing employment.
Section 31-74. - Wages not to be scaled.
Section 31-74a. - Computation and payment of vacation pay.
Section 31-76b. - Overtime pay: Definitions.
Section 31-76c. - Length of workweek.
Section 31-76d. - Workweek for certain establishments.
Section 31-76e. - Maximum workweek under contract or collective bargaining agreement.
Section 31-76f. - Piece rates; two or more kinds of work.
Section 31-76g. - Crediting of certain extra compensation.
Section 31-76h. - Hospital employees.
Section 31-76j. - Prior wage orders and regulations.
Section 31-76k. - Payment of fringe benefits upon termination of employment.
Section 31-76l. - Regulations.
Section 31-76m. - Remission of portion of fine or civil penalty to municipality.
Section 31-76n. - Connecticut Low Wage Employer Advisory Board. Duties. Members. Report.
Section 31-76o. - Civil action to collect past due payments to employee welfare fund.