CT SB00764

Applies to hourly employees in mercantile trade, restaurants, hotels/motels/resorts, and nursing/residential care facilities working for employers with at least 25 employees aggregated across all locations, effective October 1, 2019.

Requires employers to pay employees one-half their regular rate for scheduled work hours canceled or reduced less than 72 hours before the shift begins or after the employee reports to work.

Exempts employers from this pay requirement if cancellations result from employee request, mutual shift trades, threats to safety/property, utility failures, natural disasters, declared emergencies, or severe weather.

Allows employees to decline shifts beginning less than 11 hours after their previous shift ends and requires 1.5 times regular pay if they consent to work such short-notice shifts.

Employers must maintain records for three years of shifts worked, work schedules, and schedule revisions; short-notice scheduling is permitted only with individual written agreements made case-by-case without prospective consent requirements.