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Finally some good news on the jobs front concerning the Connecticut unemployment rate.

The state’s nonfarm employment in March was 1,614,500, an increase of 3,000 jobs from the revised February 2010 figure of 1,611,500, the Connecticut Department of Labor announced today. On a seasonally adjusted basis, this is a decrease of 30,600 from the March 2009 total of 1,645,100 jobs.

“We have now seen three months of job gains in Connecticut, possibly one of the best indications we have seen to date that our economy is beginning to take a more positive turn,” noted Labor Statistics Supervisor Salvatore DiPillo. “We saw healthy gains in six of our major industry sectors, including manufacturing and construction – two areas that have suffered heavy losses as a result of the economic downturn. The gain of 3,000 new jobs parallels the growth we are seeing at the national level and gives us hope that this recession may be nearing its end.”

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Connecticut’s chief business lobby is warning that a bill aiming to restrict state contracts from going to companies that ship work outside the United States will reduce cost-effective competition and potentially cause the loss of jobs in Connecticut (click here).

According to HartfordBusiness.com, the bill, which has passed out of the labor and public employees committee, aims to keep jobs in Connecticut by restricting privatization contracts of at least $100,000 from going to a contractor that would provide services at a location outside the United States.

Companies would also be restricted from hiring subcontractors from outside the country and the bill requires state agencies to give preference when awarding a contract to goods and services originating in Connecticut.

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To help stop the hemorrhaging of telecommunications jobs in Connecticut, unions have begun setting new rules centering around how call centers are staffed.

Connecticut unions and their allies in the General Assembly have cleared the first hurdle for legislation.

According to the Associated Press, the legislation overcame opposition from telephone companies that denounced it as an attempt to micromanage their business and state regulators who called it discriminatory.

Telephone company employees who call or are called by customers must, upon request, identify the city, state and country where they work, according to the legislation. If the employee is not in Connecticut, the customer can be transferred to a call center in the state “when possible,” or if a call center exists.

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