Deadline nears for Colorado employers to offer retirement-savings plans
The clock is ticking on Colorado employers who don’t now offer retirement-savings plans for their workers, as many must change their practice by February or…
Regulatory Issues
Companies within disproportionately impacted communities to come under new regulations
Pollution-generating companies within Colorado communities that are poorer, more ethnically diverse and addled with environmental problems soon will have to undergo enhanced modeling and monitoring…
Equal-pay law upgrade heads to governor’s desk largely unchanged
Despite extensive negotiations on the part of business leaders, a bill to add more regulations to Colorado’s equal-pay law is on its way to Gov….
Gig-worker transparency bill runs out of gas
Colorado’s attempt to craft the strictest transparency law in the country for transportation- and delivery-network companies crashed to halt Tuesday, stifled by what some of…
Bill could limit Colorado employers from asking about job applicants’ ages
Employers will have to remove questions from job applications about prospective workers’ ages and dates of schooling if Gov. Jared Polis signs into law a…
Polis signs expansion of Colorado’s right-to-repair law
Colorado will become the first state in the U.S. to give owners of tractors and other agricultural equipment the ability to fix the products they…
Changes to POWR Act soften business groups’ fight against the bill
When the House Judiciary Committee conducts that chamber’s first hearing Tuesday on a bill to redefine harassment in state law, business groups won’t be rallying…
Bill would require Colorado employers grant paid sick leave for more reasons
Colorado employers would have to allow workers to use paid sick leave for more reasons other than personal illness under a bill that is on…
Senate Democrats reject attempts to amend equal-pay proposal
Sponsors rejected a handful of amendments — including one requested by Gov. Jared Polis’ office — during Colorado Senate debate over the past two days…
Sponsor of ADA-lawsuits bill makes major changes
The sponsor of a bill to increase the damages that Colorado businesses could be forced to pay for Americans with Disabilities Act violations bumped the…