parental leave

Colorado could become first legislature in the nation to pass law on parental leave for lawmakers

Apr 4, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado could become the first legislature in the country to have a formal law in place that grants paid family leave to legislators. A month ago, Senate President Steve Fenberg of Boulder toyed with the idea of paid leave for lawmakers, but wondered whether it would be constitutional, given that lawmakers cannot obligate future legislatures…
Pueblo County takes a lead over the state legislature on paid family leave

Jul 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

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…
On third strike, Sen. Andy Kerr goes down swinging on parental leave

Mar 16, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Say this for Andy Kerr, he tried. We told you Wednesday that the Democrat from Lakewood had his game face on to pass a parental leave for school out of hostile Senate kill committee Wednesday. But faith and hope aren’t legislators and they don’t service on the Republican-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. House Bill…
Sen. Andy Kerr, geography teacher, studies middle ground on parental leave

Mar 15, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Andy Kerr didn’t sound like a guy who was about to get whipped. The Senate Republican majority, year after year, tells Democrats that employers shouldn’t be mandated by law to give employees up to 18 hours a year to attend school functions. The employer isn’t required to pay for the leave. A seventh-grade geography teacher by…
This week at the Capitol: time change, spankings, bar hours, public records

Mar 13, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead in the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. Monday House Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources, 1:30 p.m., Room 271 House Bill1226 to make daylight saving time year-round standard, if voters approve in in 2018 and when…
Colorado union membership rising, government stats say

Feb 2, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Reports on the death of unions are greatly exaggerated, at least in Colorado. The Bureau of Labor Statistics report released last week shows union membership jumped from 8.4 percent of the workforce in 2015 to 9.8 percent last year. The Colorado AFL-CIO says that increase equates to about 44,000 more members. It cited: “When union membership…
In race to win diverse swing Senate District 25, May, Priola relish long-march door-to-door

Aug 20, 2016

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John Tomasic

There’s really no other effective way to do it. People tune out TV and radio and mailers are quickly recycled. You have to go door to door, meeting the residents, chatting them up, listening to their concerns, doing what you can to win them over or at least make sure that, when they’re staring down…
Republicans kill parental leave bill; Democrats look to make Priola pay

Mar 10, 2016

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John Tomasic

Democratic supporters of a parental leave bill knew they were going to take a hit Tuesday in the Republican-controlled state Senate committee where bills go to die, so they made sure to get in their own political licks earlier in the day. In the afternoon State Affairs Committee hearing, the voting was over in a flash.…