The Colorado locality of Edgewater—which borders Denver and has a population of around 5,000—has enacted its own local minimum wage ordinance, which takes effect January 1, 2024. The new law demonstrates how challenging multi-jurisdiction compliance can be for employers.
Since 2020, Colorado law has allowed local governments to enact their own minimum wages, but to date, Edgewater is only the second jurisdiction to do so after Denver. State law limits how many localities can enact such ordinances—up to 10 percent of local governments—so Colorado could never reach California’s number of minimum wage ordinances, but minimum wage compliance in Colorado is poised to become even more challenging as more laws take effect.
Edgewater’s ordinance applies to employers with one or more “covered” employees, which are individuals performing, or expected to perform, four or more hours of work for an employer in any given week in Edgewater. For employers without a physical location in Edgewater, but who might send employees to perform work in the city, the ordinance does not address how employers track, or employees demonstrate, work “in” Edgewater. Unlike some other local jurisdictions with a minimum wage ordinance, on its webpage for the ordinance the city does not provide a map or tool to help. Moreover, based on an informal conversation with Littler, city officials have no current plans to release such a resource.
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