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‘Do no harm,’ Colorado chamber tells legislators ahead of 2023 session
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Preventing “new mandates and regulatory burdens” sits atop the legislative priorities of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, which urged policymakers to “do no harm” when they convene for the new legislative session next month. The chamber said its agenda for next year – which outlines its short and long-term policy positions on labor and employment,…
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State Supreme Court upholds Colorado’s voter-approved paid leave program
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The Colorado Supreme Court has turned aside a challenge to the state’s paid family and medical leave program, upholding the voter-approved expansion of the social safety net as constitutional and rejecting the claims from a Grand Junction-based construction company. Nearly 58% of voters supported Proposition 118 in 2020, which required most employers to provide up…
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Family medical leave bill gets first real hearing but stalls over amendments
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The Senate Finance Committee hearing on Senate Bill 188 Tuesday took a very different look than the hearing in the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee a week ago. For one thing, people who opposed the bill finally got to testify against it on the record. Tuesday night’s seven-and-a-half hour hearing on the FAMLI family medical…
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House Democratic leaders talk final days of 2018 session
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House Democrats are committed to wrapping up many of the same issues that Senate Republicans talked about Monday – the state pension plan, transportation, and reauthorizing the civil rights commission – but how they intend to get there couldn’t be more different. And that shows the divide that must be bridged in the remaining days of the…
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Paid family leave legislation would level the playing field for Colorado’s small businesses
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The Family Medical Leave Insurance Program (FAMLI) is currently advancing through the Colorado General Assembly, and that’s great news for the state’s 570,000 small businesses because this measure would benefit small firms by lowering turnover, boosting productivity and enhancing employee morale. The FAMLI Act would provide workers with up to 12 weeks of paid leave…
