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…
Labor & Employment
2025 Colorado Legislative Preview: An enormous amount for business to watch
In terms of resets, Colorado’s November legislative election results were negligible compared to what happened nationally. Republicans flipped three districts in the 65-member state House…
Democrats want to nix Labor Peace Act provision in order to boost Colorado unions
A group of Democratic legislators hopes to upend Colorado’s 81-year-old Labor Peace Act governing workforce unionization, saying Tuesday that they will introduce a bill to…
Colorado is opening professional licensing to more residents with criminal records
Beginning next month, employers could have a wider pool of licensed professionals to consider for openings, as a new state law will make it easier…
Polis vetoes two major labor bills
Gov. Jared Polis late Friday vetoed two of the major labor-backed bills of the 2024 legislative session — one to create new liability for general…
Coalition of business groups ask Polis to veto wage-theft bill
A dozen contractors and business organizations have mounted an effort to ask Gov. Jared Polis to veto a recently passed bill that would ramp up…
Businesses expected the worst in 2024. They got “the most successful session in years.”
At the start of the 2024 legislative session, Colorado business leaders cringed at the thought of frustrated progressives not just bringing back bills that were…
Wage-theft bill hangs in balance in Colorado Senate
Colorado legislators have 10 days left to decide whether to seek to add financial liability to construction-industry general contractors in order to deter wage theft…
Legislators dedicating portion of unemployment-tax revenues to new workforce enterprise
One year after members of the Joint Budget Committee stepped in to stop unemployment-tax revenue from being used to fund enforcement of labor regulations, leaders…
Advancing workforce-development bills aim to give learners in-demand skills
Colorado legislators this week advanced two significant pieces of workforce-development legislation — one bill to create regional talent-development plans and grow an existing grant program,…