Colorado Workers for a Better Business Climate

New Report Reveals Prop 118 Could Run Out of Money Almost Immediately

A new report released by the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute (CSI) this week has found that Proposition 118, a ballot measure which would create a paid family and medical leave insurance program in Colorado, would likely require a higher payroll tax than projected to remain solvent. If passed, Prop 118 would impose an initial .9% […]

The Colorado Chamber Launches Colorado Workers for a Better Business Climate

 The Colorado Chamber today launched Colorado Workers for a Better Business Climate, a project for working Coloradans who recognize that a healthy state business climate benefits everyone. The project will keep working Coloradans informed about state policies impacting the business community, from legislation to issues at the ballot box. A key focus of the […]

Colorado Chamber Votes to Oppose Paid Leave Ballot Initiative

For media inquiries, please contact Cynthia Meyer at [email protected]. DENVER – The Colorado Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors today voted to oppose Proposition 118. If passed by voters this November, it would create a new $1.3 billion state-run family and medical leave insurance program that would be managed by the Colorado Department of Labor […]

Bill to end tax breaks whittled down after massive outreach campaign from Colorado business owners

After a session in which businesses have been on the defensive on issues ranging from presumption that coronavirus-addled employees had caught the disease at work to creation of a new earned-paid-sick-leave mandate, they felt relieved Saturday that their voices appeared to have been heard, said Loren Furman, senior vice president of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce. “I think it […]

More blows to business will backfire on us all

The General Assembly returned to the State Capitol last week facing a very different set of circumstances from where it started in January. We’ve been thrust into a public health and economic crisis with no clear end, and it has disrupted our way of life as we know it in a matter of weeks. Such […]

Colorado Chamber: Now is Not the Time for a New Billion-Dollar State Program

For media inquiries, please contact Cynthia Meyer at [email protected]. DENVER – The Colorado Chamber of Commerce released the following statement on the recent endorsement of ballot initiatives on paid family and medical leave by the previous sponsors of the legislation: “It’s disappointing that interest groups have chosen to pursue a billion-dollar program in the middle […]