Vetoed by Governor Ned Lamont

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes individual's whose total or partial unemployment is due to the existence of a labor dispute to collect unemployment.

Highlights:

• Specifies that any week in which the administrator finds that the individual's total or partial unemployment is due to the existence of a labor dispute other than a lockout at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual is or has been employed (Sec.  1). 

• Specifies that this subsection does not apply in the following cases (Sec. 1):

• For a labor dispute that begins on or after December 14, 2026, such labor dispute has been continuous for fourteen days since the commencement of such labor dispute;

• The individual is not participating in or financing or directly interested in the labor dispute that caused the unemployment and the individual does not belong to a trade, class or organization of workers, members of which, immediately before the commencement of the labor dispute, were employed at the premises at which the labor dispute occurred, and are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute; or

• The individual's unemployment is due to the existence of a lockout. A lockout exists whether or not such action is to obtain for the employer more advantageous terms when an employer fails to provide employment to its employees with whom the employer is engaged in a labor dispute, either by physically closing its plant or informing its employees that there will be no work until the labor dispute has terminated, ormakes an announcement that work will be available after the expiration of the existing contract only under terms and conditions that are less favorable to the employees than those current immediately prior to such announcement.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes individual's whose total or partial unemployment is due to the existence of a labor dispute to collect unemployment.

Highlights:

• Specifies that any week in which the administrator finds that the individual's total or partial unemployment is due to the existence of a labor dispute other than a lockout at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual is or has been employed (Sec.  1). 

• Specifies that this subsection does not apply in the following cases (Sec. 1):

• For a labor dispute that begins on or after December 14, 2026, such labor dispute has been continuous for fourteen days since the commencement of such labor dispute;

• The individual is not participating in or financing or directly interested in the labor dispute that caused the unemployment and the individual does not belong to a trade, class or organization of workers, members of which, immediately before the commencement of the labor dispute, were employed at the premises at which the labor dispute occurred, and are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute; or

• The individual's unemployment is due to the existence of a lockout. A lockout exists whether or not such action is to obtain for the employer more advantageous terms when an employer fails to provide employment to its employees with whom the employer is engaged in a labor dispute, either by physically closing its plant or informing its employees that there will be no work until the labor dispute has terminated, ormakes an announcement that work will be available after the expiration of the existing contract only under terms and conditions that are less favorable to the employees than those current immediately prior to such announcement.

Full Bill Text