The 2024 Colorado legislative session concluded on May 8, 2024. Consistent with last year’s session, the 74th General Assembly ended with a number of new employment-related laws passing. Enacted legislation will enhance...more
Colorado employers have less than two months to bring their noncompetition restrictions into compliance with HB22-1317, a bill passed by the Colorado Legislature in May 2022. HB22-1317, also known as the Restrictive...more
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed HB 22-1317 into law on June 8, 2022. The new law significantly limits the enforceability of non-compete agreements executed after August 10, 2022 — the law’s effective date — for employers...more
As anticipated, Governor Polis signed into law last week Colorado’s new limitations on restrictive covenants, which includes noncompetition, nonsolicitation, and confidentiality covenants. ...more
On May 10, Colorado legislators approved HB22-1317, a bill that will effectively move the state into line with California and other states restricting the use of noncompetition covenants in the workplace except for highly...more
Continuing the ongoing trend of states placing restrictions on employee non-competes, on May 10, 2022, the Colorado General Assembly passed a bill amending C.R.S. § 8-2-113 (the “Amendment”) and adding significant limitations...more
Non-competition agreements have been a political hot-button issue for the last year out of growing concern, on both sides of the aisle, that these agreements are overused to the detriment of employees. On the final day of...more
On May 3, 2022, the Colorado Senate passed House Bill 22-1317 which, if enacted into law, would significantly limit the enforceability of any non-compete agreements executed after the law’s effective date for employers with...more