{"id":"DUT-CT-004","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Connecticut","state":"CT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Connecticut General Assembly (Conn. Gen. Stat. chapter 557, Employment Regulation)","authority":"1949 Rev., S. 7367 (codification of the common-law duty of the master); § 31-40v: P.A. 89-? as compiled (safety and health committees)","instrument":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-49 (care required of a master for his servant\u0027s safety) and § 31-40v (safety and health committees)","title":"Chapter 557, Employment Regulation, Part I: § 31-49, Care required of a master for his servant\u0027s safety","dateIssued":"2021-01-01","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021 (Wayback capture of January 1, 2021)","end":"standing","startDate":"2021-01-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (every private and public employer in the State)"],"clause":"It shall be the duty of the master to exercise reasonable care to provide for his servant a reasonably safe place in which to work, reasonably safe appliances and instrumentalities for his work and fit and competent persons as his colaborers and to exercise reasonable care in the appointment or designation of a vice-principal...","enforcement":"Civil liability in negligence for breach of the statutory duty (the statute codifies the common-law duty; the annotation records that no action lies under the section where the case is within the Workers\u0027 Compensation Act, 196 Conn. 529); the Workers\u0027 Compensation Act supplies the exclusive remedy for compensable injury and occupational disease, and EO 7JJJ (Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-071) created a rebuttable presumption that COVID-19 contracted by an employee who worked outside the home between March 10 and May 20, 2020 arose out of the employment","functions":[],"notes":"Every Connecticut employer (\u0027the master\u0027) to exercise reasonable care to provide every employee a reasonably safe place in which to work, a duty that in a declared pandemic emergency was measured by the protective measures the State\u0027s orders, the DECD rules and the public-health guidance they incorporated prescribed; and every employer of twenty-five or more employees to \u0027administer a safety and health committee\u0027 (§ 31-40v(a)).","sourceUrl":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_557.htm","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210101180100/https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_557.htm#sec_31-57f","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1457121,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-CT","url":"/library/DUT-CT-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-CT-004","citation":"Connecticut General Assembly (Conn. Gen. Stat. chapter 557, Employment Regulation), Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-49 (care required of a master for his servant\u0027s safety) and § 31-40v (safety and health committees) (standing) (Ex. DUT-CT-004)","stateName":"Connecticut","related":["DUT-CT-005","DUT-CT-009","AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-071"]}