Bill Text: CT SB00435 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Prohibiting Nondisparagement Clauses In Public Employee Separation Agreements.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - House Calendar Number 552 [SB00435 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00435-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 435
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4940
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Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)

AN ACT PROHIBITING NONDISPARAGEMENT CLAUSES IN PUBLIC EMPLOYEE SEPARATION AGREEMENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2015) (a) For purposes of this section, "public employee" means any person engaged in service to a public employer in a business of such public employer, and "public employer" means the state of Connecticut, its executive, legislative and judicial branches, including, without limitation, any board, department, commission, institution, or agency of such branches or any appropriate unit thereof and any board of trustees of a state-owned or supported college or university and branches thereof, public and quasi-public state corporation, political subdivision or authority established by state law.

(b) No public employer and public employee shall enter into an agreement adopted for the purpose of providing for the termination, suspension or separation from employment of such public employee that is separate from any employment agreement that may have existed between such public employer and public employee, that contains any provision or clause prohibiting or restricting such public employee from disclosing or discussing any aspect of such public employee's employment, termination, suspension or separation or any policies, actions or programs of such public employer, except such public employer and public employee may enter into an agreement to prohibit such public employee from disclosing records that are exempt from required disclosure pursuant to section 1-210 of the general statutes or any information contained in such records.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	New section

LAB

Joint Favorable