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Its illegal for employers to discriminate against LGBTQ+ employees, unless....

When people are searching for new jobs, there’s plenty of ways they can research a company and find out about the job they’re applying for and what skills it requires. But what can be more difficult is finding out about the pay range.

It was a busy legislative session in Colorado this year, with Governor Jared Polis signing more than 470 new bills into law. Included among the new legislation are four laws that will...

With amendments to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (the “Act”) set to take effect on January 1, 2024 (the “2024 Amendments”), the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment...

As an update to our previous report on Colorado’s new Ensure Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, on July 28, 2023, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued a revised...

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is expected to reintroduce two bills as soon as today to protect workers from excessive heat. The first is the Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act, named after a Central Valley farmworker who died after working 10 hours in 105-degree heat. ...

A new web resource supporting food entrepreneurship in Baltimore is open for business. Morgan State University has partnered with the City of Baltimore and the Aspen Institute to release Open Access Baltimore, a free online portal with resources to help budding entrepreneurs in the food industry get started. Baltimore is the third city with an open-access portal. ...

Oregon workers for Kaiser Permanente are holding informational pickets this week to highlight their ongoing union negotiations with the hospital system. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions represents more than 85,000 workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, and began negotiations in April. Their current contract expires at the end of September. ...

Black Womens Equal Pay Day on July 27 calls attention to the wage disparity between Black women and white men. In Mississippi, it is even more pronounced than in other states. More than 100,000 women in the Magnolia State work in low-paid jobs, according to a new report from the National Womens Law Center. ...

As we previously reported here, in 2019 Colorado passed a pay transparency law requiring employers to (1) disclose in their job postings the pay ranges and benefits for their Colorado...