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Connecticut Issues

  • Unemployment InsuranceNFIB will continue working with legislators to prevent changes in the unemployment insurance system that would hurt small businesses.
  • Employee Background Checks`NFIB is fighting efforts to prevent employers from screeing potential workers.
  • Tax IncreasesNFIB led the fight against the recent tax increases and continues to push for their repeal.
  • Paid Sick LeaveNFIB will lobby the Legislature and the administration to stop mandatory paid sick leave.
  • Repeal the Business Entity TaxNFIB continues to work for the repeal of the business entity tax.
  • Control Workers' Compensation Costs in ConnecticutThis area of major cost impact on small businesses is a perennial battle between small businesses and the trial bar and organized labor. The costs associated with workers' compensation are a close second to the costs generated by health-care insurance premiums.
  • Medical Malpractice in ConnecticutA complex bill addressing flexibility, review provisions on awards and insurance regulatory reforms was passed. The one component that many have focused on as a required component of real medical malpractice reform is a cap on non-economic damages.
  • Protect Your Rights as a Business Owner: Oppose Captive Audiences in ConnecticutThis measure is aimed at controlling the atmosphere for unions to organize a work force. Captive audience legislation bans mandatory employer-sponsored meetings when those meetings are held for the purpose of communicating the employers' opinions on political, religious or labor-organizing activities.
  • Mandated Health Care: Pay or Play in ConnecticutOrganized labor and other universal health-care advocates have targeted Wal-Mart stores nationwide in an effort to ultimately require all businesses to provide health care for employees. The proposal that swept across parts of this country would require large employers to offer health insurance or to pay a tax so that the government could provide the business' employees with health insurance.
  • Full Repeal of the Entity Tax in ConnecticutNFIB supports and is leading the charge on repealing the entity tax in 2006. This tax has had sunset provisions that make small businesses feel like they are living through a never-ending summer in Alaska.