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Denver Post: Colorado’s 81-year-old labor law faces overhaul by Democrats as business groups fight to save “compromise”

Liza Nielsen applied to work at Starbucks because of the “promised magical benefits” the company offered, like tuition and health care reimbursement.

But when she started at the coffee giant’s Superior store in early 2021, her expectations curdled. She and her coworkers were consistently shorthanded, she said, and they had to fight for enough shifts to unlock the benefits that had attracted Nielsen to the job in the first place.

Loren Furman, the president and CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, said the state’s regulatory environment has become more burdensome for business. She shares Ament’s fear that changing the law may make Colorado even less attractive to companies.

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