SB 315 Summary

• Establishes specific criteria for determining "reasonable assurance" of continued employment for adjunct faculty at Connecticut higher education institutions, requiring written, oral, or implied job offers from authorized employees at 90% of prior compensation.

• Prohibits higher education institutions from making employment offers contingent on factors within their control, including course programming, funding allocation, program modifications, or facility availability.

• Requires each higher education institution to submit two lists to the Labor Department within 10 days before each academic year ends: one of faculty without reasonable assurance of continued employment and one documenting how reasonable assurance was provided to those who have it.

• Establishes a rebuttable presumption that an institution failed to provide reasonable assurance if it does not submit required documentation, and provides retroactive unemployment benefits to faculty whose promised employment is not honored in the subsequent term.

• Takes effect July 1, 2022 and amends Connecticut General Statutes section 31-227(d).