Decisions of the Appeals Division; electronic index of Board decisions

(Statutory reference: 31-238, 31-249f, 31-252, 1-15) (a) Final decisions of the Referees and the principles of law declared in their support shall be binding upon the Administrator and shall further be persuasive authority in subsequent Referee proceedings. Final decisions of the Board shall be binding as precedent in all subsequent proceedings involving similar questions. (b) The Board shall provide the public electronic access to its decisions at each employment security and appeals division office through an indexing system that provides text retrieval. Such system shall enable the user to identify, read, and copy board decisions based upon the name of the parties; date of decision; citation to statutes, regulations, court cases, or prior board decisions; subject matter; and whether the decisions have been identified by the board as precedential. (c) Any hard copy indexes, manuals, outlines or similar compilations of board decisions that the board maintains will be made available to the public at all appeals division and employment security offices and all libraries maintained by the Connecticut Judicial Department or the Connecticut Bar Association.