wage
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Court reinstates wage appeal, finds state agency couldn’t establish missed deadline
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Colorado’s second-highest court last month reinstated a company’s appeal in a wage violation case, finding the state’s labor department neglected to indicate when it mailed its original decision and further misrepresented the deadline to appeal. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals considered the narrow, but novel, issue of what happens when a party…
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts case involving judge who was crime victim
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case questioning whether an El Paso County judge who was the victim of a roadside shooting should have recused herself from presiding over a road rage trial with similar circumstances. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to grant an…
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Fast food workers’ wage claims can proceed as class action in 3 cases, appeals court says
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Colorado’s Court of Appeals determined last week that three lawsuits against fast food chains may proceed, in part, as class actions – meaning potentially thousands of workers across dozens of stores could benefit monetarily if wage violations are proven. In cases arising out of Denver, El Paso County and southwest Colorado, a three-judge panel of the…
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State Supreme Court delivers partial win for truckers in overtime pay case
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The state Supreme Court delivered a mixed ruling to four truck drivers on Monday, finding that two of them qualified for overtime pay under state wage rules because they never left Colorado and, therefore, were not interstate drivers. The remaining two, however, fell under an exemption to the rules that barred them from receiving overtime…
