Connecticut General Statutes
Title 5 - State Employees

Section 5-141c. - Reimbursement of state employees for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services, with the approval of the...

Section 5-141d. - Indemnification of state officers and employees. Duties of Attorney General. Legal fees and costs. Enforcement action. Exceptions. - (a) The state shall save harmless and indemnify any state...

Section 5-141e. - Deduct-a-ride program for state employees. - The Comptroller may offer to qualified state employees the option...

Chapter 65 - Disability Compensation and Death Benefits

Section 5-142. - Disability compensation. - (a) If any member of the Division of State Police...

Section 5-142a. - Injury or death of sheriff. - Any high sheriff, chief deputy sheriff, deputy sheriff or special...

Section 5-143. - Applicability of Workers' Compensation Act. Additional sick leave compensation. - Each state employee who sustains an injury arising out of...

Section 5-144. - Death benefits for state employees, state officers and members of General Assembly. - If any state employee, state officer or member of the...

Section 5-145. - Notice of injury or death of state employee, state officer or member of General Assembly. - Each appointing authority shall notify the Commissioner of Administrative Services,...

Section 5-145a. - Hypertension or heart disease in certain university, aeronautics, State Capitol police, correction, mental health, criminal justice or hazardous duty personnel. - Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or...

Section 5-145b. - Hypertension or heart disease in motor vehicle inspectors. - Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or...

Section 5-145c. - Hypertension or heart disease in chief inspectors or inspectors in the Division of Criminal Justice. - Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or...

Section 5-146. - Allowances for survivors of members of Division of State Police. Cost-of-living allowance. Effect of collective bargaining agreements. Valuation of fund by Retirement Commission. - (a) If any member of the Division of State Police...

Section 5-147. - Payment of allowances of children. - The allowances for surviving dependent children shall be payable to...

Section 5-148. - Contributions. - Section 5-148 is repealed. (1961, P.A. 537, S. 3; 1963,...

Section 5-149. - State employee death benefits not payable, when. - If the death of a member of the Division of...

Section 5-150. - Survivorship benefits for beneficiaries of members of Division of State Police. - The survivorship benefits of sections 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive, shall...

Section 5-151. - Benefits for survivors of previously deceased police. - Any widow other than one who has received benefits under...

Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act

Section 5-156a. - Funding of retirement system on actuarial reserve basis. - (a)(1) The state employees retirement system shall be funded on...

Chapter 66a - Newington Children's Hospital, American School for the Deaf, Connecticut Institute for the Blind

Section 5-192nn. - Retirement provisions applicable to certain employees of state-aided institutions. Early retirement incentive program. - (a) No person employed or reemployed by Newington Children's Hospital,...

Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act

Section 5-193. - Short title: State Personnel Act. - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Section 5-194. - Construction and administration. - This chapter shall be so construed and administered as to...

Section 5-195. - Merit principles to be observed. - The system of personnel administration for employees in the state...

Section 5-196. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

Section 5-196a and 5-196b. - “Commissioner” and “department” defined. “Personnel Commissioner” and “Personnel Department”, terminology change. - Sections 5-196a and 5-196b are repealed. (P.A. 73-677, S. 1;...

Section 5-197. - Offices in state service to be classified; exceptions. - Any office or position in the state service, whether full-time...

Section 5-198. - Positions exempt from classified service. - The offices and positions filled by the following-described incumbents shall...

Section 5-199. - Personnel Division of Department of Administrative Services. Deputy commissioner. - Section 5-199 is repealed, effective July 1, 1996. (1967, P.A....

Section 5-199a and 5-199b. - Bureaus established. Deputy commissioners; qualifications; appointment; powers. Exempt positions. - Sections 5-199a and 5-199b are repealed. (P.A. 73-677, S. 4,...

Section 5-199c. - Human resources strategic plan. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall develop a human resources...

Section 5-199d. - Role of regional community-technical colleges in training for state employees. - The Department of Administrative Services or any other state agency...

Section 5-200. - State personnel and employment policies. Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Administrative Services. Regulations. Personnel administration services for municipalities or other political subdivisions of the state. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services or his authorized agent...

Section 5-200a. - Job evaluations in classified and unclassified state service. Exclusion of certain unclassified positions. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall evaluate classifications in...

Section 5-200b. - Reclassification of state employees by Commissioner of Administrative Services. - Any state employee who is being reclassified upward to a...

Section 5-200c. - Elimination of wage inequities in state service. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall take into account any...

Section 5-200d. - Automated personnel system. - Section 5-200d is repealed, effective July 13, 2005. (P.A. 92-165,...

Section 5-201. - Employees' Review Board. - (a) There shall be an Employees' Review Board consisting of...

Section 5-201a. - Relation of Personnel Appeal Board to the department. - Section 5-201a is repealed. (P.A. 74-336, S. 2; P.A. 77-614,...

Section 5-202. - Individual and group appeals. - (a) Any employee who is not included in any collective...

Section 5-203. - Reports to Commissioner of Administrative Services of personnel changes. - Each appointment, transfer, promotion, demotion, dismissal, vacancy, change of salary...

Section 5-204. - Report to Governor. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall compile currently and submit...

Section 5-205. - Administration of oaths, issuance of subpoenas. - Section 5-205 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 14; P.A....

Section 5-206. - Position classifications. - (a) Position classifications established by the Commissioner of Administrative Services...

Section 5-206a. - Establishment of position classification series for marital and family therapists. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall establish a job classification...

Section 5-207. - Use of classification titles and codes. - The classification titles or codes of positions in the classified...

Section 5-207a. - Requirements for positions with exposure to federal tax information. - For each position of employment with the state of Connecticut...

Section 5-208. - Compensation schedules. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall establish compensation schedules...

Section 5-208a. - Compensation by more than one agency restricted. Multiple job assignments within same agency restricted. - No state employee shall be compensated for services rendered to...

Section 5-209. - Compensation for performance of duties of higher job classification. - Any state employee, except an employee who has been designated...

Section 5-209a. - General worker. Work experience credit for out-of-class work. - (a) Any person who is employed in state service as...

Section 5-210. - Annual salary increases; lump-sum payments; state incentive plans for managerial or confidential employees. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services may establish one or more...

Section 5-210a, 5-210b and 5-211. - Employee anniversary dates for fiscal 1975-76. Payment of partial increments for fiscal 1975-76. Meritorious service award; exceptions. - Sections 5-210a, 5-210b and 5-211 are repealed. (1967, P.A. 657,...

Section 5-212. - Salary not to exceed salary range. - No portion of an annual salary increase under section 5-210...

Section 5-212a. - Compensation schedules adjustments. - Section 5-212a is repealed. (1972, P.A. 226; September, 1972, P.A....

Section 5-213. - Termination of longevity payments to employees not included in any collective bargaining unit. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-212, each employee in...

Section 5-213a and 5-213b. - Salary increase for managerial employees in lieu of longevity payments. Conferring of benefits upon managerial or confidential employees and appointed officials not included in collective bargaining units. - Sections 5-213a and 5-213b are repealed. (P.A. 78-231, S. 7,...

Section 5-213c. - Salary increase upon termination of longevity payments to employees not included in any collective bargaining unit. - Effective the first pay period after July 1, 2013, the...

Section 5-214. - Creation of new positions and filling of vacancies subject to certification by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or designee. - Except in emergencies, natural disasters or for the purpose of...

Section 5-215. - Study of need for existing positions. - The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall...

Section 5-215a. - Filling of vacancies from candidate lists. - When the appointing authority receives approval to fill a vacancy...

Section 5-216. - Establishment of candidate lists. Continuous recruitment. Application of examination scores. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall hold examinations for...

Section 5-217. - Effective period of candidate lists. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall specify, at the time...

Section 5-218. - Examinations; notices. - (a) Except for an examination that has been waived pursuant...

Section 5-219. - Form of examinations. Fees. - (a) Examinations shall be in such form and of such...

Section 5-219a. - Volunteer experience considered. - It shall be the policy of all state agencies to...

Section 5-220. - Conduct of examinations. - (a) Examinations shall be conducted by the Commissioner of Administrative...

Section 5-221. - Rejection of applicants. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services may reject the application...

Section 5-221a. - Appeal from rejection of application for admission to examination. - An applicant for employment or an employee in the classified...

Section 5-222. - Unassembled examinations for certain professional positions. Regulations. - Section 5-222 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 31; 1969,...

Section 5-223. - Rating of examinations. - The final earned rating of each person who competes in...

Section 5-224. - Credit for military service on examinations held for original appointments. - Any veteran who served in time of war, if such...

Section 5-225. - Notice of final earned ratings on examinations. Right of inspection. Appeals. - All persons competing in any examination shall be given written...

Section 5-226. - Corrupt practices in relation to applications, examinations and appointments. - No person, by himself or in cooperation with one or...

Section 5-226f. - Pilot program concerning state classifications and examination system. - Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d) of section 5-272 the...

Section 5-227. - Discrimination prohibited. - No person in the classified service or seeking admission thereto...

Section 5-227a. - Promotion by reclassification of position. Examination for reclassified position not required. - Whenever an employee's position in the classified service is reclassified,...

Section 5-227b. - Waiver of examinations. Delegation of authority to recruit. Audit of recruitments. - (a) Examinations for positions may be waived by the Commissioner...

Section 5-228. - Filling vacancies. Promotional and original appointments. Dismissal during working test period. Sex discrimination. - (a) When a vacancy in any permanent position in the...

Section 5-229. - Time for appointment. Effective date. - An appointing authority, upon receipt of a candidate list for...

Section 5-230. - Working test periods. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall establish appropriate working test...

Section 5-231. - Residence not required, exceptions. - No person shall be required to be a resident of...

Section 5-232 and 5-232a. - Appointments of noncitizens. Citizenship requirement may be waived. - Sections 5-232 and 5-232a are repealed. (1967, P.A. 233; 657,...

Section 5-233. - Appointments to unskilled and semiskilled positions. - For positions involving unskilled and semiskilled labor or for positions...

Section 5-234. - Appointments to training program and following completion of training program. Not applicable to veterans preference. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services may provide for the appointment,...

Section 5-235. - Provisional, temporary, emergency and intermittent appointments. - (a) In order to facilitate the carrying on of public...

Section 5-236. - Appointments to unclassified service. Return to classified from unclassified service. - (a) An appointing authority, in his discretion, may request from...

Section 5-237. - Service ratings. Performance appraisals. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall adopt, in accordance...

Section 5-237a. - Salary Review Committee. - Section 5-237a is repealed. (P.A. 78-231, S. 9, 10; P.A....

Section 5-237b. - Quality Control Committee. Membership. Duties. - Section 5-237b is repealed, effective July 1, 2012. (P.A. 84-480,...

Section 5-238. - Hours of work in Executive Department. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall adopt regulations, in accordance...

Section 5-238a. - Hours of persons employed in state parks during summer months. - Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter, or of any...

Section 5-238b. - Hours of meat and poultry inspectors. - Section 5-238b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (P.A. 73-478,...

Section 5-239. - Transfers. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall provide by regulations adopted...

Section 5-239a. - Assignment of permanent state employees of the executive branch by the Commissioner of Administrative Services. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services may establish procedures for the...

Section 5-240. - Reprimand, suspension, demotion, dismissal. Layoffs. Notice period pay. Use of tax return information in certain proceedings. - (a) An appointing authority, subject to any regulations issued by...

Section 5-241. - Order of layoffs. Notice. Placement on reemployment list. - (a) No employee in the classified service who has been...

Section 5-242. - Appointment and tenure of teachers in state institution schools. - (a) Any board of trustees of a state institution and...

Section 5-243. - Resignations. Reemployment of retired employees. - Resignations from the classified service shall be subject to regulations...

Section 5-244. - Transfer or separation from service due to disability. Reinstatement of sick leave upon reemployment. - When an employee has become physically or mentally incapable of,...

Section 5-245. - Workweek. Overtime pay. - (a) Any state employee who performs work authorized by his...

Section 5-246. - State police workweek. Work for highway contractors. - (a)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any regulation issued under this...

Section 5-247. - Sick leave. Credit on reemployment. Collection of benefits while otherwise employed on full-time basis prohibited. - (a) Each appointing authority shall grant, on account of illness...

Section 5-247a. - Payment for accumulated sick leave for retiring state teachers. - Any state employee who opted for membership in the teachers'...

Section 5-247b. - Sick leave. Use by blind or disabled employees for assistance dog training. - Each appointing authority shall grant to each full-time employee in...

Section 5-248. - Leaves of absence. Reinstatement upon withdrawal of resignation. - (a) An appointing authority may, with the approval of the...

Section 5-248a. - Family and medical leave from employment. - (a) For purposes of this section, “child” means a biological,...

Section 5-248b. - Regulations. Family and medical leave from employment. - The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall adopt regulations, in accordance...

Section 5-248c. - Voluntary schedule reduction program. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services, in conjunction with the...

Section 5-248i. - Telecommuting and work-at-home programs. - (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall, within available appropriations,...

Section 5-248j. - Participation in Big Brothers and Big Sisters program. - (a)(1) On and after June 1, 1998, each full-time employee...

Section 5-248k. - Paid leave for organ donation. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “State employee” means...

Section 5-249. - Leave for volunteer fire, ambulance, civil air patrol, specialized disaster relief and canine search and rescue services. - (a)(1) Any state employee who is an active volunteer firefighter...

Section 5-250. - Vacations. Personal leave. - (a) Each appointing authority shall grant to each full-time employee...

Section 5-251. - Accrual of sick leave and vacation credits while receiving compensation. - Any state employee receiving compensation benefits in accordance with section...

Section 5-252. - Payment for accrued vacation time on leaving state service. - Any state employee leaving state service shall receive a lump...

Section 5-253. - Payment for extra hours of work and accumulated vacation allowance on death. - Upon the death of any state employee, a lump sum...

Section 5-254. - Holidays. - (a) Each full-time permanent employee in the state service shall...

Section 5-255. - Reinstatement of state employees after service in armed forces. Term of employment to include military service. - (a) Any employee who leaves or had left the state...

Section 5-256. - Service to counties, agricultural extension offices, state college bookstores, Hartford Bridge Authority and municipal courts included in term of state service. - (a) The term of employment in state service shall be...

Section 5-257. - Group life insurance. - (a)(1) The Comptroller, with the approval of the Attorney General...

Section 5-257a. - Continuation of group life insurance for certain teachers at E. O. Smith School. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special...

Section 5-258. - Group Insurance Commission. - Section 5-258 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 65; P.A....

Section 5-259. - Hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan. Eligibility. Coverage for other groups under plan. Municipal Employee Health Insurance Plan. Prescription drug purchasing by nonstate public employers. - (a) The Comptroller, with the approval of the Attorney General...

Section 5-259a. - Competitive selection. - Employee health and life insurance shall be subject to a...

Section 5-259b. - Continuation of health insurance for former members of General Assembly. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-259, any member of the...

Section 5-259c. - Health insurance for employees of state system of public higher education. - Any part-time professional employee of the state system of public...

Section 5-259d. - Continuation of health insurance coverage and accrual and use of vacation and sick time, leave of absence and equivalent leave time for state employees called to active service in the armed forces. - (a) As used in this section, (1) “state employee” or...

Section 5-259e. - Review of prescription claims data to increase utilization of generic prescriptions. - Members who represent the state on the Health Care Cost...

Section 5-259f. - Establishment of requirements for health benefit cost sharing for certain nonrepresented officers and employees. - Notwithstanding any provision of any general statute, public act or...

Section 5-259g. - Persons ineligible for special enrollment periods. - No special enrollment period established in the general statutes that...

Section 5-260. - Deduction of organization dues. - Upon request of any state employee who is a member...

Section 5-260a. - Deduction of contributions to nonprofit organizations. - The Comptroller shall, upon the written request of any state...

Section 5-261. - Deduction of credit union savings. - When, in the opinion of the Comptroller, a sufficient number...

Section 5-262. - State Employee Campaign. Deduction of contributions. Regulations. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Federation” means a...

Section 5-263. - Suggestion awards. - Section 5-263 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 69; 1972,...

Section 5-263a. - Suggestion awards program. - Section 5-263a is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (P.A. 85-360,...

Section 5-263b. - Award Program for state employees reporting alleged state agency gross waste of funds. Calculation of award. Ineligible suggestions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “State employee” means...

Section 5-264. - Section 403(b) annuities for state employees. Purchase of shares of an investment company for state employees. Section 403(b) annuities for employees of political subdivisions. - (a) The Comptroller, on behalf of any employee who is...

Section 5-264a. - Deferred compensation plan for state employees or employees of political subdivisions of the state. Administration. - (a) The state or any political subdivision of the state...

Section 5-264b. - Dependent care spending account program. - The Comptroller shall maintain a dependent care spending account program...

Section 5-264c. - Treatment of funds deposited in dependent care spending account program. - All funds deposited in this program pursuant to section 5-264b...

Section 5-264d. - Flexible health care spending account program. - The Comptroller shall maintain a flexible health care spending account...

Section 5-264e. - Treatment of funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program. - All funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending...

Section 5-265. - Special training courses for state employees. Exchange of employees. - Departments, agencies and institutions may enter into agreements with educational...

Section 5-266. - Political activity. - Section 5-266 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 72; 1971,...

Section 5-266a. - Political activities of classified state employees and Judicial Department employees. Candidacy for office. Leave of absence or resignation upon taking elective office. - (a) No person employed in the classified state service or...

Section 5-266b. - Permitted activity. - Nothing contained in sections 5-266a to 5-266d, inclusive, prohibits political...

Section 5-266c. - Regulations. - Section 5-266c is repealed, effective June 11, 2014. (1971, P.A....

Section 5-266d. - Dismissal or suspension of employee. Appeal. - If, upon the complaint of any citizen of the state,...

Section 5-267. - Officers, appointing authorities and employees to comply with law. - All officers, appointing authorities and other state employees shall conform...

Section 5-268. - Penalty. - Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates, or...

Section 5-269. - Transfer of certain employees to Labor Department. - Section 5-269 is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (P.A. 73-449,...

Chapter 68 - Collective Bargaining for State Employees

Section 5-270. - Collective bargaining. Definitions. - When used in sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive: (a) “Employer”...

Section 5-271. - Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation. - (a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the...

Section 5-272. - Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations. - (a) Employers or their representatives or agents are prohibited from:...

Section 5-273. - Powers of State Board of Labor Relations. - The State Board of Labor Relations shall administer sections 5-270...

Section 5-274. - Prohibited practice questions determined by State Board of Labor Relations. - Whenever a question arises as to whether a practice prohibited...

Section 5-275. - Employee organization designated as exclusive representative. Bargaining unit determination. Petitions seeking clarification or modification of existing units. - (a)(1) On and after October 1, 1975, any interested organization...

Section 5-276. - Mediation and arbitration services by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. - (a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and...

Section 5-276a. - Timetable for negotiations between employer and designated employee organization. Mediation. Elective binding arbitration; procedure. - (a) In the event that either the employer, as defined...

Section 5-276b. - Interest charges on overdue arbitration settlement payments. - (a) Whenever a monetary settlement is awarded pursuant to an...

Section 5-277. - Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. - Section 5-277 is repealed. (P.A. 75-566, S. 8; P.A. 86-411,...

Section 5-278. - Determination of employer representative. Negotiations and agreements with employee representative. Arbitration awards. Approval of agreements and awards by General Assembly. Conflicts with statutes, acts or agency regulations. - (a) When an employee organization has been designated, in accordance...

Section 5-278a. - Certain provisions of collective bargaining agreement to remain in effect. - In the event an agreement expires before a new agreement...

Section 5-278b. - Limitation on terms of collective bargaining agreements. - On and after June 30, 2027, no agreement negotiated pursuant...

Section 5-279. - Strikes by state employees prohibited. - Nothing in sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, shall constitute a...

Section 5-280. - Payment of dues to exclusive representative required. - (a) If an exclusive representative has been designated for the...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 5 - State Employees

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 5 - State Employees