DENVER (KKTV) -More Colorado employees now have paid sick leave. Starting Jan. 1, 2021, a paid sick leave law started applying to employers with 16 or more employees. Then on Jan. 1, 2022, it was expanded to include all employees, big and small.
This is due to Senate Bill 20-205, the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, exceptions include the federal government, and some railroad employees.
Under the law, all workers will accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. They can earn up to 48 hours per year. Employees also get additional leave during public health emergencies or disaster declarations under the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. Under the public health emergency leave, full-time employees get 80 hours and part-time employees get less. KKTV 11 News asked the department of labor how many hours of COVID pay a part-time employee can expect and they responded with:
“For employees normally working under 40 hours in a week, the amount of supplemental leave is the greater of the number of hours the employee (a) is scheduled for work or paid leave in the fourteen-day period after the leave request, or (b) actually worked in the fourteen-day period prior to the declaration of the PHE or the leave request.”
Example of part-time emergency leave: An employee regularly working 25 hours a week can take 50 hours’ leave, because that is 2 weeks’ pay. An employee regularly working 40 hours a week...
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