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Impacted Employers: Employers with 100 or more employees.
Effective Date: October 1, 2026
Summary: Connecticut has enacted legislation that will require employers with 100 or more employees to create a guide to pay codes.
Next Steps: Review the law in full and determine whether any changes to policies and practices should be made.
The Details
Effective Oct. 1, 2026, employers with 100 or more employees must create a guide for their employees on the pay codes the employer uses for overtime and its most commonly used pay differentials, such as shift differentials, on-call pay, hazard pay, callback pay, holiday or weekend pay, or geographic pay differentials.
The guide must include, if applicable, at least 10 pay codes and be posted on the employer’s website in English, Spanish, and the most common other languages spoken by their employees. The guide must also include contact information for the designated office or person who will handle employee disputes about calculations of hours and pay differentials.
Covered employers must update the guide each time a new pay code is added for overtime or a pay differential.
Covered employers must also:
- Include a link to the guide on each record of hours given to an employee; and
- Give new employees a link to the guide upon hire.
Employers may also comply with this provision by giving a written copy of the guide to an employee upon hire in English and the employee’s primary language.
Next Steps
Review the law in full and determine whether any changes to policies and practices should be made.