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Colorado workers who believe they have been mistreated at work because of their identity are increasingly turning to the courts to adjudicate. And the plaintiffs are equal opportunity litigants.
In 2020, workplace discrimination claims made up a third of employment disputes in Colorado 217 out of 638 complaints reviewed, according to data compiled by BusinessDen. That’s up more than 200 percent from 2017, when 66 employment discrimination complaints were filed in Colorado civil court out of 537 employment lawsuits.
Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of cases citing violations of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and/or the Americans With Disabilities Act nearly doubled, making up 198 of the 641 employment lawsuits filed that year.
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The Colorado Legislature has formally introduced Senate Bill 21-176, the Protecting Opportunities and Workers’ Rights (POWR) Act, which would impose sweeping changes to Colorado’s.
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A Colorado judge will allow a discrimination complaint against Christian baker Jack Phillips, who refused to make a cake in the colours of the trans Pride flag, but has thrown out a second complaint against him.
In 2017, Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to bake a pink and blue frosted cake to celebrate the transition of Autumn Scardina, a transgender lawyer based in Denver, Colorado.
After Phillips refused to bake the cake, Scardina filed a complaint against him in 2018 through the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Scardini alleged that Philipps’ refused to create the cake because she is trans.