{"id":"DUT-CO-008","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Colorado","state":"CO","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Colorado General Assembly (Seventy-second General Assembly, Second Regular Session); signed by Governor Jared Polis","authority":"Colo. Const. art. V; enacted as C.R.S. title 8, art. 13.3, part 4","instrument":"Senate Bill 20-205, Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (\u0027HFWA\u0027), C.R.S. § 8-13.3-401 et seq.","title":"Concerning Paid Sick Leave (Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)","dateIssued":"2020-07-14","effective":"2020-07-14 (signed; safety clause). § 8-13.3-406(2): from the effective date through Dec. 31, 2020 every employer \u0027regardless of size\u0027 had to provide paid sick leave in the amount and for the purposes of the federal Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act to each employee not covered by it; § 8-13.3-405 public health emergency leave supplements accrued leave \u0027on the date a public health emergency is declared\u0027; § 8-13.3-403 accrual duty from Jan. 1, 2021 (employers with sixteen or more employees) and Jan. 1, 2022 (all employers)","end":"standing (public health emergency leave available \u0027until four weeks after the official termination or suspension of the public health emergency\u0027)","startDate":"2020-07-14","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["employers (every employer in the State; the 2021 accrual duty first for employers with sixteen or more employees)"],"clause":"on the date a public health emergency is declared, each employer in the state shall supplement each employee\u0027s accrued paid sick leave as necessary to ensure that an employee may take the following amounts of paid sick leave for the purposes specified in subsection (3) of this section: (a) For employees who normally work forty or more hours in a week, at least eighty hours.","enforcement":"Division of Labor Standards and Statistics enforcement and private civil action under the Act\u0027s remedies and anti-retaliation provisions (§§ 8-13.3-407 to -411.","functions":[],"notes":"Required every Colorado employer to provide paid public-health-emergency leave (eighty hours for full-time employees) for self-isolation, symptoms, diagnosis, preventive care, care of a self-isolating family member, and exclusion from work on a determination by a public health authority or the employer that the employee\u0027s presence would jeopardize the health of others, in addition to the general paid sick leave duty phased in from January 1, 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_205_signed.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":922959,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-CO","url":"/library/DUT-CO-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-CO-008","citation":"Colorado General Assembly (Seventy-second General Assembly, Second Regular Session); signed by Governor Jared Polis, Senate Bill 20-205, Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (\u0027HFWA\u0027), C.R.S. § 8-13.3-401 et seq. (standing) (Ex. DUT-CO-008)","stateName":"Colorado","related":["CO-035","CO-096","DUT-CO-007"]}