The 2025 Colorado legislative session concluded on May 7, 2025. This latest session has brought a series of significant updates that are poised to reshape the compliance landscape for employers across the state. Among the...more
7/28/2025
/ Agricultural Sector ,
Agricultural Workers ,
Colorado ,
Health Care Providers ,
Labor Disputes ,
Minimum Wage ,
Misclassification ,
New Legislation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Paid Leave ,
Penalties ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Retaliation ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tipped Employees ,
Transparency ,
Wage and Hour
As pay equity and transparency laws continue to spread across the country, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reminds us that both women and men can be subject to discriminatory pay practices based on gender....more
The big day is finally here! More than three years after voter approval of Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance program (FAMLI), the program goes live on January 1, 2024. For the past 12 months, employers...more
The 2023 Colorado legislative session closed on May 8, 2023, and in what is now an annual tradition, the General Assembly devoted considerable time during its 120-day session to debating employment-related bills, some quite...more
The Colorado Division of Labor and Employment (CDLE) had a busy last few weeks of December in 2022, revising a number of its Interpretive Notice and Formal Opinions (INFOs). On December 23, 2022, CDLE issued a revised INFO...more
On November 1, 2022, the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Division (the Division) of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment adopted final rules that employers must follow to offer private plans under Colorado’s...more
Not surprisingly, simple solutions to complex issues are often elusive. Yet on rare occasions, the solution is in plain sight. Doubtful? For employers struggling with the issue of a remote employee’s eligibility for...more
Last week, Colorado’s General Assembly passed major revisions to Colorado’s statutory limitations on restrictive covenants, which include covenants limiting competition, the solicitation of customers, and the use and...more
The Colorado Department of Labor approved the COMPS Rule 38, 2022 Publication And Yearly Calculation of Adjusted Labor Compensation (2022 PAY CALC) Order, 7 CCR 1103-14 and Wage Protection Rules, 7 CCR 1103-7...more
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has proposed new rules to Colorado’s ever-changing laws on overtime, minimum wage, and vacation requirements. As with other changes to Colorado employment law in recent...more
11/3/2021
/ Agricultural Workers ,
CO Supreme Court ,
Colorado ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Minimum Wage ,
Non-Exempt Employees ,
Over-Time ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Vacation Pay ,
Wage and Hour
Now that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its formal approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, many employers are beginning to implement vaccine requirements for employees. This article...more
8/31/2021
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disparate Impact ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Employer Mandates ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Incentives ,
Masks ,
Pfizer ,
Religious Beliefs ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour
Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA) went into effect January 1, 2021. The Division of Labor Standards and Statistics within the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment adopted final regulations on November 10,...more
On Monday, June 14, 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision prohibiting so-called “use-it or lose-it” vacation policies. In Nieto v. Clark's Market, 19SC553, the Supreme Court overturned both the trial...more
6/16/2021
/ CO Supreme Court ,
Employment Litigation ,
Forfeiture ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
State Labor Laws ,
Vacation Leave ,
Vacation Pay ,
Vested Benefits ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wages
Husch Blackwell’s Labor & Employment team is launching a series of employment and labor alerts and labor law podcasts that discuss the expected changes in labor and employment laws under the Biden administration and provide...more
3/30/2021
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Arbitration Agreements ,
Biden Administration ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equality Act ,
Executive Orders ,
LGBTQ ,
No-Poaching ,
Paycheck Fairness Act ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
As previously discussed, the American Rescue Plan Act was passed and signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021. The Act extends and expands payroll tax credits until September 30, 2021, for employers who...more
3/24/2021
/ American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ,
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Full-Time Employees ,
Opt-In ,
Paid Leave ,
Payroll Taxes ,
Sick Leave ,
Tax Credits ,
Wage and Hour
On January 20, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed in Washington state. By March, many employers began sending their workers home on what was expected to be a temporary basis. Almost one year...more
2/15/2021
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Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
OSHA ,
Privacy Laws ,
Remote Working ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
State Taxes ,
Wage and Hour
Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA) goes into effect January 1, 2021, and the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics within the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment adopted final regulations on November...more
12/22/2020
/ Colorado ,
Compensation ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Job Promotions ,
Pay Transparency ,
Posting Requirements ,
Staffing Agencies ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On September 11, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) released unpublished revisions to portions of the Temporary Final Rule published on April 1, 2020, under the Families First Coronavirus...more
9/17/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Paid Leave ,
Required Documentation ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Availability Requirement
Evidently accepting Winston Churchill’s advice that one should never let a good crisis go to waste, the Colorado General Assembly passed, and Governor Polis has signed, two laws that, on their face, appear designed to address...more
Effective April 27, 2020, many large employers in Colorado (those with 500 or more employees) are now required to pay up to 80 hours of sick leave at a rate of two-thirds employees’ regular pay for a variety of...more
The Colorado Division of Labor and Employment recently adopted a far-reaching change to Colorado regulations governing wage and hour standards. Effective March 16, 2020, the 2020 Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order...more
May Colorado employers adopt “use-it-or-lose-it” vacation policies, in which employees lose paid vacation time if they do not use it within a certain time frame?
May Colorado employers refuse to pay out the cash value of...more
Key Points:
Colorado’s far-reaching equal pay law prohibits pay disparities based on sex and provides a private right of action that includes liquidated damages and recovery of attorneys’ fees for employees who prevail in...more