Connecticut has divided its state labor poster requirements essentially to three different types of employers: Mercantile, Restaurant, and Administrative Regulations. Administrative Regulations is just another way of saying,“Everyone Else.” All of the posters are available from the Connecticut Department of Labor and satisfy the state requirements for employee notices. We’ll take a quick look at each.

Mercantile

The issues covered in the mercantile posters pertain to the standard peculiarities of operating and employing people in the trade of wholesale or retail selling of commodities or anything incidental to that, like warehousing, inventory, and clerical work. Beginners in Connecticut are able to be paid 85% of the minimum wage for the first 200 hours.

There are also minimum daily guarantees wherein an employee, who by request or permission of the employer, reports for duty on any day shall be compensated for a minimum of four hours earnings at his regular rate. Certain other regulations appear on the poster such as the “No charge for uniforms or other facilities” clause which reminds employees of just what it seems to. Employees may not be charged as a condition of employment any charge that would effectively lower their wage to below the minimum wage.

Restaurant

The restaurant poster is similar but adjusted to reflect peculiarities of the restaurant industry such as tipped workers. The poster, which employers must post and keep posted where employees may read it, starts by directing employees to direct all inquiries or complaints of violation of this order to the Wage and Workplace Standards Division of the Department of Labor in Wethersfield, CT.

Minimum wage for workers earning gratuities is set at $8.2DOL-753+gratuities for bartenders and $6.38 and gratuities for service employees or waitpersons. Work on the seventh day is paid not less than one and one-half times the minimum rate for all the time worked and overtime (more than 40 hours) is, likewise, paid at the rate of one and one-half times.

Stay tuned for the last and most applicable category, Administrative Regulation.