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Colorado Legislature Passes Paid Sick Leave, Other Bills Affecting Employers

July 16, 2020

Via: HR Hero
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In an extraordinary legislative session interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic—which led to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that lawmakers could reconvene after initially adjourning in late March 2020, despite a constitutional provision limiting regular sessions to “one hundred and twenty calendar days”—the Colorado General Assembly passed a number of important bills affecting employers.

On July 14, Governor Jared Polis signed into law the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA), which goes into effect for covered employers with 16 or more employees on January 1, 2021, and for all other covered employers (regardless of how many employees they employ) on January 1, 2022.

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