Connecticut SB 436: AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT CONCERNING THE NONDISCLOSURE OF THE ADDRESSES OF CERTAIN PUBLIC AGENCY EMPLOYEES.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 436
February Session, 2026

AN ACT CONCERNING ADVANCED NOTICE OF AN EMPLOYEE'S
WORK SCHEDULE BY AN EMPLOYER.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2026) As used in this section and 1
sections 2 to 9, inclusive, of this act: 2
(1) "Employee" means an individual who is employed (A) in a retail 3
establishment, food services establishment or hospitality establishment, 4
or (B) as a nursing assistant or orderly at a long-term health care services 5
establishment. "Employee" does not include an individual who is 6
exempt from the minimum wage and overtime compensation 7
requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and regulations 8
promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time; 9
(2) "Employer" means any person that is (A) a retail establishment, 10
hospitality establishment or long-term health care services 11
establishment that employs five hundred or more employees within the 12
United States or globally, or (B) a food services establishment that 13
employs five hundred or more employees within the United States or 14
globally and has thirty or more locations within the United States or 15
globally. "Employer" includes a franchisee that is part of a network of 16
franchises within the United States and globally that employs five 17
hundred or more employees in the aggregate; 18

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(3) "Franchisee" has the same meaning as provided in section 42-133e 19
of the general statutes; 20
(4) "Food services establishment" means food services and drinking 21
places, as defined under code 722 of the 2022 North American Industry 22
Classification System; 23
(5) "Hospitality establishment" means hotels and motels, as defined 24
under code 721110 of the 2022 North American Industry Classification 25
System, and casino hotels, as defined under code 721120 of the North 26
American Industry Classification System; 27
(6) "Long-term health care establishment" means nursing care 28
facilities, as defined under code 623110 of the 2022 North American 29
Industry Classification System; 30
(7) "Nursing assistant" means nursing assistant, as defined in Section 31
31-1131 of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational 32
Classification system or any successor system; 33
(8) "On-call shift" means the specific and consecutive hours an 34
employer requires an employee to be available to work and for which 35
the employer requires the employee to either contact the employer or 36
wait to be contacted by the employer to determine whether the 37
employee must report to work; 38
(9) "Orderly" means orderly, as defined in Section 31-1132 of the 39
federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classification 40
system or any successor system; 41
(10) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, joint 42
stock company, trust, firm, business, nonprofit agency, corporation, 43
limited liability company or any other entity employing any person; 44
(11) "Regular rate" has the same meaning as provided in section 31-45
76b of the general statutes; 46
(12) "Regular shift" means the specific and consecutive hours an 47

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employer schedules an employee to work; 48
(13) "Retail establishment" means the fixed point of sale location for 49
an establishment defined under sectors 44 to 45 of the 2022 North 50
American Industry Classification System; and 51
(14) "Work schedule" means the regular shifts and on-call shifts an 52
employer assigns to an employee, including the dates, times and 53
location of such regular and on-call shifts. 54
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2026) (a) Prior to the start of 55
employment, an employer shall obtain a written statement from a new 56
employee that includes the days and times the employee is available to 57
work and the employee's desired number of weekly scheduled work 58
hours. An employee may request to modify such written statement at 59
any time during employment and an employer may grant or deny any 60
such request for any bona fide business reason. 61
(b) Prior to the start of employment, an employer shall provide a new 62
employee with a good faith written estimate of the employee's 63
anticipated work schedule that includes the average number of hours 64
the employee can expect to work in an average week and the days and 65
times of regular and on-call shifts the employee can expect to work each 66
week. An employer shall revise such estimate when there is a significant 67
change in the employee's availability or to the employer's business 68
needs. An employer shall not be in violation of this section if an 69
employee's scheduled hours for any given week exceed the average 70
number of hours provided in the written estimate, provided such 71
employer has made every effort to schedule the employee for such 72
employee's desired number of weekly sc