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Labor and Public Employees Committee opens 2025 session, highlights paid leave and minimum-wage gains
Summary
The committee held its first 2025 session to introduce members, staff and priorities. The committee chair praised the state's Paid Family Medical Leave payments and the increase in minimum wage; new members and staff were introduced and the next meeting was set for Jan. 14.
The Labor and Public Employees Committee convened for the first meeting of the 2025 legislative session and used the session to introduce new members and staff, review priorities for the year and set its next meeting date, the committee announced.
The committee chair (name not specified in the transcript), who opened the meeting with safety announcements, highlighted recent results from Connecticut’s paid leave program and the state’s minimum-wage increases as evidence the panel’s work has affected working families. The chair said, “we reached a 1,000,000,000 dollars in pay, payments to working families to people using this benefit, $1,000,000,000 in a period of 3 years,” and…
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