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Colorado Supreme Court rules Amazon must include ‘holiday incentive pay’ in overtime calculations
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Amazon’s incentive payments to employees for work performed on holidays must be part of overtime pay calculations under the state’s wage regulations. The decision is a victory for Dan Hamilton, an Amazon worker who filed a class action lawsuit alleging the company improperly excluded holiday incentive pay…
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Federal judges’ financial disclosures reveal frequent travelers, income sources, minor errors
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A review of judges’ financial disclosures for the federal trial and appeals courts headquartered in Denver reveals a range of income sources, a handful of judges who are frequent travelers to conferences and seminars, plus one judge’s minor — but repeated — errors in reporting. Pursuant to federal law, judges must file annual financial disclosures plus periodic…
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10th Circuit: Archuleta sheriff’s officials committed constitutional violation by seizing home for 8 hours
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An Archuleta County sheriff’s detective who barred a man and his family from entering their home for nearly eight hours without a warrant committed a constitutional violation that required the eventual evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. Although Corban Josiah Elmore cooperated…
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10th Circuit dismisses Brighton church’s challenge to future public health orders
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More than three years after a Weld County church filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s public health response to COVID-19, the federal appeals court based in Denver has ruled the organization lacks standing to seek exemption to other hypothetical restrictions that may come in the future. Grace Bible Fellowship in Brighton was successful in…
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10th Circuit dismisses Brighton church’s challenge to future public health orders
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More than three years after a Weld County church filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s public health response to COVID-19, the federal appeals court based in Denver has ruled the organization lacks standing to seek exemption to other hypothetical restrictions that may come in the future. Grace Bible Fellowship in Brighton was successful in…
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10th Circuit dismisses Brighton church’s challenge to future public health orders
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More than three years after a Weld County church filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s public health response to COVID-19, the federal appeals court based in Denver has ruled the organization lacks standing to seek exemption to other hypothetical restrictions that may come in the future. Grace Bible Fellowship in Brighton was successful in…
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Colorado Supreme Court weighs Amazon’s obligation to pay millions more in overtime
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Members of the state Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that Colorado will be an outlier among all states if its wage regulations require companies to include incentive pay for time worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime compensation. At the same time, the justices repeatedly returned to the text of the disputed regulation, which provides…
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Colorado Supreme Court weighs Amazon’s obligation to pay millions more in overtime
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Members of the state Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that Colorado will be an outlier among all states if its wage regulations require companies to include incentive pay for time worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime compensation. At the same time, the justices repeatedly returned to the text of the disputed regulation, which provides…
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Colorado Supreme Court to analyze how wage law applies to Amazon holiday pay
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The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced it will decide whether Amazon is complying with the state’s wage law by excluding shifts worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime pay. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear an appeal. The case addressing overtime pay came to the Supreme Court through an…
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10th Circuit agrees ex-DPS employee failed to prove retaliatory firing
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The federal appeals court based in Colorado agreed last month that a former Denver Public Schools employee failed to show how her termination was connected to her act of speaking out against racial discrimination. Barbara Lindsay worked at Emily Griffith Technical College and participated in the 2019 hiring process for a new school director. She…
