Tag: Colorado Department Of Labor And Employment
Coloradans still have questions about filing for COVID-19 unemployment. We have...
More than 358,000 Coloradans have filed for unemployment over the past six weeks, in an unprecedented wave that reflects the nationwide job-loss and economic...
COVID-19 FAQ, resources and other tidbits to get you through the...
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We're trying cover some of the basics without recreating the wheel, so if you haven't checked out the excellent FAQ at Colorado Public...
Colorado’s new overtime protections will expand to more workers, more quickly...
Colorado’s new wage protections giving more workers earning higher incomes the right to overtime will go into full effect later than originally proposed, but...
Workers and advocates call for more protections and quicker implementation of...
Workers and advocates packed a downtown Denver meeting room to urge the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to more quickly implement its proposed...
Decrying ‘political theater,’ state labor chief urges Denver district, union to...
Criticizing the most recent teacher pay bargaining session as “political theater,” the head of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment urged the Denver...
Denver teachers union asks Colorado labor officials to stay out of...
Arguing that intervention would be “futile,” the Denver teachers union has formally asked state labor officials to stay out of a contract dispute between...
Senate committee kills measure to open records on wage-law violations
With no discussion, a Senate committee late last week killed legislation that would have allowed the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to disclose whether a company has cheated its workers.
Unemployed Coloradans losing benefits fast, face foreclosures, jail time
Coloradans are suffering directly because lawmakers in Washington can not find a way to work together to pass vital federal unemployment insurance benefits extensions. Like many states, Colorado tied benefits to federal payments and in Colorado the federal money pays larger percentages of claims. As Republicans and Democrats face off on Capitol Hill, thousands of Coloradans are being dropped from the rolls. Some of them will be hungry. Others homeless. And some of them jailed for not paying debts. Kelly, for example, a former Westminster financial analyst whose unemployment insurance recently ended and who didn't want the Colorado Independent to post her full name, is working to avoid arrest for not paying fees incurred in the wake of a misdemeanor traffic violation.
Union Coalition Secures State Worker Ballots
At least three groups of state employees will participate in a mail-in vote to unionize under a labor coalition after ballot petitions passed one...