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
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
On Thursday, November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) applicable to employers of 100 or more employees. The ETS requires employers to adopt a...more
11/5/2021
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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
4/9/2021
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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
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As we discussed previously after the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) expired on December 31, 2020, President Trump signed the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) which allowed employers to decide if...more
On November 3, 2020, Colorado voters approved Proposition 118, the culmination of a long-running effort to mandate paid family and medical leave for all Colorado employees. This law continues the recent uptick of major...more
On September 11, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) released unpublished revisions to portions of the Temporary Final Rule published on April 1, 2020, under the Families First Coronavirus...more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
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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 Department of Labor (the “Department”) has issued an emergency rule, the Colorado Health Emergency Leave with Pay (“Colorado HELP”), which temporarily requires certain employers to provide paid sick leave to...more