Labor Law Poster Spotlight: Important New Posters from Connecticut, Michigan, and Missouri

In this monthly series, the GovDocs Employment Law and Compliance Team highlights three recent labor law poster releases that employers need to know about.   

Connecticut’s Discrimination Poster 

Connecticut significantly streamlined its Discrimination Poster. Instead of including three separate lists of protected classes of discrimination, the poster now states that Connecticut law prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, and credit transactions on the basis of:  

• Age 
• Alienage 
• Ancestry 
• Color 
• Disability (past and present intellectual, mental, learning, and physical disabilities, including, but not limited to, blindness, deafness, mobility impairments, and use of a guide dog or guide dog in training) 
• Familial status (housing only) 
• Gender identity or expression  
• Genetic information (employment only) 
• Lawful source of income (housing and public accommodations only) 
• Marital status 
• National origin 
• Race 
• Religious creed 
• Sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, accommodations for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and sexual harassment) 
• Sexual orientation 
• Status as a veteran  
• Status as a victim of domestic violence 
• Criminal conviction 
• Erased criminal history 
• Retaliation for protected activity (including filing with CHRO) 

Connecticut’s Discrimination Poster is required for all employers. GovDocs Standard Update Program is currently shipping updated posters out to impacted locations in Connecticut. 

Missouri’s Earned Paid Sick Leave Poster 

Last year, Missouri voters approved Proposition A, which was a ballot measure decided on during the November 2024 general election, requiring employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave starting May 1, 2025. Despite a recent legal challenge to the ballot measure, the Missouri Supreme Court on April 29, 2025, ruled that Proposition A was valid, paving the way for the law to take effect on May 1.  

Accordingly, Missouri’s new Earned Paid Sick Leave Poster was released. The poster provides that employees accrue earned paid sick time at the rate of 1 hour of earned paid sick time for every 30 hours of work. Employers with 15 or more employees must provide up to 56 hours of earned paid sick time per year while employers with less than 15 employees must provide up to 40 hours of earned paid sick time. The poster also provides information relating to employer exceptions, employee rights, and retaliation.  

Missouri’s Earned Paid Sick Leave Poster is required for all employers. The newly released poster has also been added to the Standard Update Program, which is shipping to customer locations in Missouri.