It’s the ultimate Colorado dream: Pack up the house, rent it out and load up the RV for an extended road trip. Drive around in your self-contained world, stop when you want, listen to a river roll by while sipping your coffee. And go with the knowledge that you’re not stuck in any one place […]
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Opinion: Work matters, but removing assistance penalties for working also matters
Local efforts to incentivize employment for the most vulnerable workers are being undermined by outdated benefits tests from the federal government
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Opinion: Hire for skills, not the diploma
In a tight labor market, employers are hurting themselves by limiting their recruiting to the 38% of the adult population with a college degree..
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Southwest Airlines sues Colorado officials over the state’s new sick leave law
Southwest Airlines is suing the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment in federal court, claiming the state’s new sick leave law “imposes a pervasive and comprehensive paid sick leave scheme on employers.” The airline claims it already provides generous paid sick leave to its employees and that Colorado’s sick leave policy contradicts and prevents the […]
Posted inEquity, News
Nonprofit gives $1.5M cash to more than 600 formerly incarcerated Coloradans transitioning back to community
Heather Fitzsimmons was working on getting her life back together and staying clean while on probation in Aurora when she noticed what seemed to be an extra deposit in the account where she gets paid. Fitzsimmons called to alert her employers at the Center for Employment Opportunities in Denver, part of a national organization providing […]
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Women’s Bean Project celebrates rebuilding lives — and a huge new facility in Denver
Sabina Dyer was in a treatment center when she applied for a slot at the Women’s Bean Project in Denver. She needed a job and had heard good things about the nonprofit that uses employment to help train women for the workforce from a previous graduate of the organization. The organization hires women struggling to […]
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Opinion: How emotionally intelligent bosses make Colorado a better place to work
Millions of employees left their jobs last year in what has been dubbed “the Great Resignation,” and Colorado, as the state with the fourth-highest number of resignations, is hardly immune. Yet Colorado also is better positioned than most to weather this talent shakeup because we lead the country in offering innovative benefits, work-life balance and […]
Posted inBusiness, COVID, Economy, News
Why Coloradans have quit their jobs: “What price my soul?”
After 10 years at her job, Nancy Johnson walked away on New Year’s Eve. Her employer offered good health benefits and made use of her more than two decades of medical billing experience. But she’d hit a wage wall. The Carbondale resident had even become a certified medical coder because it was a path to […]
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Opinion: Why COVID drove me to change my career
I closed my business during the pandemic. The company was growing, we were hiring, and the business had a healthy pipeline of new customers, but the draw toward change was strong. A year into the pandemic and after five years running my marketing agency, I ended contracts with clients and told my employees to start […]
Posted inBusiness, COVID, Health, News
COVID-related labor laws, from vaccine mandates to paid leave, have Colorado employers confused
As another COVID year comes to a close, there’s confusion among employers who are balancing vaccine requirements with labor shortages and trying to keep up with changes to national, state and local labor laws. Some government mandates are facing challenges in court, but other COVID-related policies, like paid sick leave, will continue into 2022. Providing […]