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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 that employers (1) detail compensation and benefits information with each job posting and (2) post al...

The federal minimum wage has stood at $7.25 per hour since 2009. “It’s outdated,” said economist Tatiana Bailey, director of the UCCS Economic Forum in the College of Business. “Who lives on that?” Although Bailey thinks an increase in the minimum wage is overdue, she and many business owners think the costs and consequences of a raise would be too great to enact it right now. A minimum wage proposal is part of the federal stimulus package being considered in the U.S. Congress. While the proposal is shining a spotlight on America’s low-wage workers and the busine...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Along with a host of other laws across the country,[1] Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“Act”) went into effect on January 1, 2021. Among other measures, the Act requires all employers— located anywhere in the United States—with at least one employee in Colorado to (i) provide Colorado-based employees with formal notice of internal opportunities for promotion[2] on the same calendar day the opening occurs, and (ii) disclose salary compensation and employee benefits in job postings for positions that are expected to...

Since Colorado enacted the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), many have wondered what obligations employers would incur beginning in January 2021. In particular, the Act’s mandate...

On the night before Christmas Eve, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued a surprise opinion that Colorado employers are required to provide still more paid sick...