August

"Connecticut has joined the ""Ban the Box"" movement, becoming the most recent state in the nation to implement statewide legislation prohibiting employers from making inquiries into an applicant 's criminal history on job applications, except under certain circumstances. Employers should review their job applications now to ensure compliance by the January 1, 2017, effective date. Employers still may make criminal background inquiries in Connecticut, but the timing of such inquiries now shifts to later in the hiring process, such as during the interview process or contingent upon an offer. Additionally, Connecticut 's prior restraints on erased record inquiries remain in effect. Under the law, employers may inquire into an applicant 's criminal background when required under state or federal law, or when the job requires a security or fidelity bond or equivalent bond. "

A judge with the U.S. Department of Justice immigration office has ordered a temporary employment company to pay nearly $210,000 for more than 400 failures to properly file work authorization forms, skewing closer to the government 's damages calculation despite some mitigating circumstances. Administrative Law Judge Ellen K. Thomas of the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer found Golden Employment Group Inc. failed to prepare or present 236 I-9 forms, didn 't properly complete 89 such forms and failed to timely file them on 140 occasions. The Form I-9 is used to confirm an employee 's identity and work authorization. Finding the instances of failure to submit forms were more egregious than the late or improper filings, Thomas assessed a penalty of $500 for each of the missing forms and $400 for the other 229, for a total of $209,600.

According to the International Labour Organization and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), unemployment is set to rise in the Latin America and Caribbean labour markets. Both UN organisations state that the evolution of labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2016 will generally be negative, due to forecasts for a more deteriorated macroeconomic context and growth levels than last year and to the weakening of some employment indicators. These factors, along with the low dynamism in job creation, will likely lead to an increase in urban unemployment of more than half a percentage point (0.5%) in 2016 versus 2015. In general, in Central American countries, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean nations the labour market 's evolution was more favorable than in South America, whose performance was affected by the impact of the external context on its economic activity and inflation, among other factors.