Shortt v. New Milford Police Department

This appeal involves two questions of construction concerning the scope of General Statutes § 31-721: (1) whether a municipality constituted an

*296“employer” for the purposes of this statute under the definition contained in General Statutes § 31-71a (1) prior to its amendment by Public Acts 1987, No. 87-366, § 2;2 and (2) whether this statute provides an independent substantive cause of action for the collection of wages that permits the bypass of otherwise applicable grievance procedures under a collective bargaining agreement. The trial court dismissed, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,…