Senate Bill 20-205, the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA), C.R.S. § 8-13.3-401 et seq.

The record

Jurisdiction

Colorado; General Assembly (enforced by the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics, Department of Labor and Employment) · Colorado

Level

State

Authority

SB 20-205, 2020 Colo. Sess. Laws

Issued

2020-07-14 July 14, 2020

Effective

2020-07-14 (on signature); § 8-13.3-416 interim leave July 15 through Dec. 31, 2020; § 8-13.3-403 accrued leave from Jan. 1, 2021 (employers of 16 or more) and Jan. 1, 2022 (all employers); § 8-13.3-405 public health emergency leave from the date a public health emergency is declared (the COVID-19 emergency was in effect) (read as 2020-07-14)

End

Permanent statute; the COVID-19 public health emergency leave obligation continued until four weeks after the emergency declarations ended (2023) (read as 2021-09-30)

In force

July 14, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021

Quarters

2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolation

Addressees

• every employer in Colorado (with the interim FFCRA-equivalent requirement for all employers in 2020 and accrual phase-in by size)

Functions reached

• WF workforce availability (up to 80 hours of paid public-health-emergency leave for every employee)
• HR leave administration, notice and posting
• OP payroll
• CB (every Colorado employer in every industry)

Collection

State labor and workplace-safety agencies AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE

Operative words

8-13.3-405. Additional paid sick leave during a public health emergency. (1) In addition to paid sick leave accrued under section 8-13.3-403, on the date a public health emergency is declared, each employer in the state shall supplement each employee's accrued paid sick leave as necessary to ensure that an employee may take... (a) For employees who normally work forty or more hours in a week, at least eighty hours.

Enforcement

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