Colorado lawmakers are proposing sweeping reforms to the state’s wage theft enforcement laws to better protect workers from business malpractice — but some groups fear some provisions could put employers at a disadvantage.
House Bill 25-1001, sponsored by Democratic lawmakers, attempts to make it easier for victims of wage theft to recover stolen wages through the claims process and for the Department of Labor to punish bad actors, improve transparency and protect the rights of workers under wage and hour laws.
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“For us, that’s just deeply unfair because it assumes a set of facts that we don’t know,” said Meghan Dollar, senior vice president of government affairs for the Colorado Chamber of Commerce.
Under an existing statute, employers can recover attorney’s fees if they pay all demanded wages within 14 days of receiving a claim. This bill would strike that language from the statute.
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