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…
Labor & Employment
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,…
“Worker Freedom Act” designed to protect employees from anti-union meetings
Employers who require workers to attend meetings featuring political or religious messages and then retaliate against staffers who walk out or refuse to go could…
Colorado seeking employers to bring teachers into their workplaces
For nearly a decade now, Colorado government leaders have been asking employers to consider bringing students into their companies for apprenticeships and internships. Now they…
Construction wage theft proposal passes legislative committee overwhelmingly
Democrats on a Colorado House committee enthusiastically advanced a bill Thursday that would make construction general contractors jointly liable for wages their subcontractors fail to…
Legislators may look to formerly incarcerated to help ease Colorado labor shortages
Some five years ago, as Colorado’s red-hot economy was exacerbating labor shortages, some restaurant owners began actively recruiting from prisons, seeking departing inmates who they…