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Many job advertisements for remote work are now coming with an asterisk: Coloradans need not apply. “Please Note: Job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado,” reads an active online advertisement for a remote sales solution architect at Concentrix. Disclaimers like that are becoming more common now after a Colorado law requiring employers to disclose salary ranges went into effect earlier this year. The goal of the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, which was passed in 2019, wa...

Hidden label Home › Workplace Issues › A law equal pay law in Colorado is costing residents remote work opportunities A law equal pay law in Colorado is costing residents remote work opportunities A new equal pay law in Colorado -- and the additional bureaucracy -- is costing the state’s residents remote work opportunities. June 29, 2021 Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act — a set of laws aimed at ending wage discrimination, especially for women and minorities —  went into ...

A federal judge has refused to halt enforcement of new wage and employment transparency measures that took effect this year, finding no evidence that the rules harm interstate commerce and

One of the historic wins during the just-ended legislative session is Colorado’s first-ever maternity-care bill package: the Birth Equity Bill Package, also referred to as Colorado’s Momnibus, after the federal package by that name.

A recruiters' trade association can't stop Colorado from enforcing parts of an equal pay law, because the group hasn't sufficiently shown that the law is unconstitutional or interferes in interstate commerce, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

For the Record I bet you’d love to have a great job with great benefits working remotely in Summit County. Our state government thought it would be a great idea if you had a level playing field when you apply for that job. The Colorado Legislature passed the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act , which requires employers to disclose the salary range for a job. The law is intended to diminish discrimination. Turns out some employers think the law is a good reason to discriminate against all Coloradans...

ADVERTISEMENT Colo., Biz Group Spar Over Equal Pay Laws Interstate Impact Law360 (May 18, 2021, 7:44 PM EDT) -- The state of Colorado and a recruiters trade association exchanged legal blows in federal court filings Monday in the latest round of a fight over whether parts of a state equal pay law are unconstitutional because they interfere with interstate commerce. In a brief, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment defended the states Equal Pay for Equal Work Act against the Rocky Mou...

all current, Colorado-based employees of all company promotional opportunities, with limited exceptions discussed below. Relevant regulations define a promotional opportunity as “when an employer has or anticipates a vacancy in an existing or new position that could be considered a promotion for one or more employees in terms of compensation, benefits, status, duties, or access to further advancement.” Promotional opportunities must be announced simultaneously to all Colorado employees (t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, SB19-085 (the Equal Pay Act), went into effect on January 1, 2021. Colorado’s new law follows a string of laws in other states seeking to expand the protections related to equal pay, including widening the scope of employees who are covered and narrowing the affirmative defenses for employers. However, Colorado’s law pushes the pay equity landscape into fairly new territory by requiring t...

Amidst all of the promises and actions taken by the Biden Administration, the topic of pay equity is gaining more and more attention. While there has been growing momentum on the issue...