Milford labor attorney Lisa Grasso Egan has been named a top aide who will guide Connecticut’s labor relations with state employees, starting in March, the state says.
State Office of Policy & Management Secretary (OPM) Benjamin Barnes announced Egan’s appointment Friday as undersecretary in the OPM’s Office of Labor Relations. It represents the state in contract talks with state employee unions, grievance processes, administrative hearings and other matters.
Egan has represented public employers since 1994, starting as New Haven’s director of labor relations. Since then, she has represented government agencies in labor relations matters as a private lawyer, lately as a senior partner at Milford law firm Berchem, Moses & Devlin P.C., authorities said.
Most recently she served as chief negotiator and labor counsel for the New Haven, Bridgeport and Wallingford housing authorities, and represented Ansonia in contract negotiations with its police union.
“Lisa’s long experience representing government entities makes her the right person to take on the task of reorganizing this critical function at OPM,” Barnes said in a statement.
“I am confident that I can help state government and its taxpayers, while maintaining good relations with our valuable state employees — the people who make government work,” Egan said in the same statement.
