paid leave
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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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Justices weigh whether Colorado’s paid family, medical leave program violates TABOR
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The survival of Colorado’s paid family and medical leave program, which nearly 58% of voters supported two years ago at the ballot box, may come down to a single sentence in the most controversial part of the state’s constitution: the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court considered the arguments of a…
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Pueblo County takes a lead over the state legislature on paid family leave
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Pueblo County is providing its employees what the Colorado legislature has not providing for other working parents across the state, paid parental leave. The issue is an annual partisan football, and the last two sessions lawmakers couldn’t agree on a few hours of unpaid leave to attend school activities pushed by Democrats. Most legislative Republicans say…
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House Ds launch another leave bill; Senate Rs ready another grave for it
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If you thought legislative Republicans didn’t like mandating unpaid leave for private-sector workers — they shot down that plan last month — just imagine what they think of a proposal for paid leave that requires workers statewide to cover the tab. Actually, you don’t have to imagine; the House minority GOP issued a press release Tuesday rebuking the Democratic majority after it approved a paid-leave…
