Legislators nix idea of boosting unemployment benefits
Colorado legislators will not be dipping into the state’s still-insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to create new payments for children of unemployment-benefit recipients, after a…
Labor & Employment
Two bills revive battle over Colorado unemployment-fund solvency
Once again, Colorado’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund is the subject of major debate. After a month of discussions around the potential use of unemployment-tax revenue…
Colorado Senate limits use of unemployment-tax revenues
Not content just to say they don’t want enforcement of proposed new labor laws funded with unemployment taxes, opponents of the idea convinced the Colorado…
Cabinet member to legislators: Hands off unemployment-tax revenues
A key member of Gov. Jared Polis’ cabinet sent a letter to Colorado legislators Wednesday expressing his “extreme opposition” to their use of unemployment taxes…
Unemployment taxes could fund new labor regulations
Colorado legislators are seeking to use a fund that is seeded by unemployment-tax payments from employers to pay for enforcement of several regulatory bills this…
Sponsors resist requests to lighten equal pay regulations
A bill that would boost regulations on employers surrounding interviewing and hiring procedures in the name of pay equity cleared its first legislative committee Tuesday…