Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05278 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/05/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5278
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 838
 *00838*
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
REP. SCANLON, 98th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5278 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 838

*00838*

Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES 

Introduced by:

REP. SCANLON, 98th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING PAID SICK LEAVE FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHERS AND CALL RECEIVING OPERATORS.

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

That chapter 557 of the general statutes be amended to require employers to provide paid sick leave to emergency medical dispatchers and call receiving operators. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To include emergency medical dispatchers and call receiving operators under existing paid sick leave law.