The 2024 Colorado legislative session has concluded and resulted in several new laws affecting Colorado employers. This article provides an overview of some significant changes.
House Bill (HB) 24-1129 creates an entirely new statute, C.R.S. Section 8-4-126, that focuses on several different job-related protections for delivery drivers who work for delivery-network companies, including wage transparency, contract transparency, and account-deactivation transparency and challenge procedures. The new law also includes enforcement mechanisms.
The act applies to delivery-network companies (DNC), which are defined as, “any person that sells the delivery of goods or services, including delivery provided as part of the sale of goods, in the state and that engages or dispatches delivery drivers through a digital platform.” In turn, a digital platform is “an online application, internet site, or system that a delivery network company uses to facilitate, manage, or facilitate and manage delivery services.” Notably, the act applies only to drivers who are independent contractors. DNCs need not comply with respect to drivers who receive W-2s for all amounts earned.
Most of the act concerns wage-related protections for delivery drivers. For instance, Subsection (2) creates protections surrounding tips to drivers from consumers and bars DNCs from decreasing a delivery driver’s pay due to consumer tips for deliveries. Further, the act...
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