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…
Labor & Employment
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…
Bill would require employers offers workers suicide-prevention education
Suicide-prevention advocates want Colorado workplaces to take a more active role in their efforts, and a bill advancing through the Legislature would generate such collaboration…
Colorado House leader will introduce bill targeting construction wage theft
As construction companies desperately seek new workers to build homes and infrastructure, Colorado legislators want to ramp up protections to ensure they are paid for…
Colorado employers must prepare for these new laws in 2024
Colorado employers looking ahead to 2024 need to prepare for several legal and regulatory changes coming from the state government, including the full implementation of…