Business leaders win key votes on two environmental bills
Colorado legislators pushed backed against environmental activists in two ways Thursday, rejecting a bill to require extensive emissions reporting by large corporations and advancing a…
Labor & Employment
Industry leaders at first regional talent summit outline new career pathways
Business and educational leaders came together Tuesday to plot new career pathways in manufacturing, construction and health care for northern Colorado and the Eastern Plains…
Labor Peace Act overhaul passes Colorado Senate
A significant change to Colorado’s 82-year-old Labor Peace Act is now halfway to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, as Senate Democrats approved it along party lines…
Despite concern over specific provisions, legislators advance wage-theft bill without changes
Sponsors of a bill to ramp up penalties for businesses committing wage theft promised to make changes to it Thursday but weren’t yet ready to…
Legislators will debate a very different wage-theft bill this year, but opposition remains
After Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a 2024 construction wage-theft-enforcement bill that he said could trip up law-abiding contractors, proponents are back with a follow-up that…
Labor Peace Act overhaul advances over business complaints
Senate Democrats used their first bill hearing of the 2025 legislative session Tuesday to advance a proposed major change to the state’s Labor Peace Act,…
Poll: 70% of voters oppose changes to Labor Peace Act
Less than a week before the first scheduled hearing of a bill to rewrite Colorado’s Labor Peace Act, a coalition of business groups has released…
In State of State Address, Polis seeks regulatory reform and caution in potential Labor Peace Act changes
Gov. Jared Polis used his State of the State Address on Thursday to call out several major business priorities, including asking legislators to undertake regulatory…
Opening-day bills tackle unionization, wage theft, price gouging, Ozempic and more
Colorado legislative Democrats stormed out of the gate Wednesday by introducing two major pro-labor efforts as well as several cost-of-living bills that are likely to…
Legislative session opens with calls to address affordability crisis
Leaders of all four of Colorado’s legislative caucuses called for new laws that will help to bring down the cost of living during Wednesday’s opening…