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For the past year, many Colorado workers and their employers have built up a $775 million fund that will someday allow workers paid leave to care for a newborn, sick loved one or themselves. That day starts Jan. 1.
It’s the next stage of a state law that goes into effect in 2024, and it’s joined by a handful of new labor laws and rules for the workplace. Another limits age discrimination of job applicants, another increases the minimum wage while another has employers facing higher payroll costs. There’s even something new for the 2019 law requiring companies to post salaries for new jobs.
But the paid family plan known as Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, aka FAMLI, is one that has kept lawyers like Liz Hartsel busy addressing various scenarios, even if the client or employer isn’t in Colorado.
“I’m getting a lot of requests from clients, both employers and employees, about how to deal with (new laws). For instance, ‘My employer’s in Chicago and I’m pregnant,’ and they’re like ‘We don’t know what to do,’” said Hartsel, an employment lawyer at Fortis Law Partners in Denver. “With any new law, there’s a lot of uncertainty and I think that it behooves employers to just be up to speed on what is allowed under the upcoming laws.”
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