State of Connecticut. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS PATRICK H. CONNOLLEY, Commissioner Labor Laws and Directory of of Connecticut 1913 COUL TRANSTUUT HARTFORD PUBLISHED BY THE STATE LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. General Statutes, Revision of 1902, and Amendments, January Sessions, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911 and 1913. Section 1. Wages paid weekly. The comptroller shall make weekly payments of wages to all persons employed by him about the state capitol and grounds, except those who are employed only during a session of the general assembly, or whose compensation is fixed by law.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 136. Sec. 2. Claims for wages, when preferred. All debts due to any laborer or mechanic for personal wages, from any insolvent debtor whose estate is in settlement, for any labor performed for him within three months next preceding the commencement of proceedings in insolvency, shall be allowed by the commissioners on his estate, and paid in full by the trustee, to the amount of one hundred dollars, before the general liabilities of such debtor are paid.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 271. Sec. 3. Costs where wages only are attached. In any action in which wages only are attached, no costs shall be taxed in favor of the plaintiff, unless it shall appear to the court or justice of the peace before which or whom such action is brought, that demand was made upon the defendant for the payment of the claim sued for, not more than thirty days nor less than three days prior to the bringing of such action.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 774. Sec. 4. Costs on attachment of debt for personal services. In any action in which, upon the service of process, moneys due to the defendant by reason of personal services are attached the plaintiff shall not recover of the defendant, as costs, a sum exceeding one-half of the amount of damages recovered in the action.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 777. Sec. 5. Attachment of wages; assignment of future earnings. No assignment of future earnings made as security for a loan or other indebtedness shall be valid unless the amount of such indebtedness shall be stated therein, together with the rate of interest to be charged thereon, nor unless the term for which such earnings are assigned shall be definitely limited in. |