Colorado
This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the tax treatment in Colorado of health insurance benefits for those in same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships.
Colorado law requires covered employers to provide eligible employees and dependents the option of continuing health care coverage under certain circumstances. This guide helps HR professionals understand requirements related to continued health care coverage.
As mandated by the City and County of Denver, Colorado Anti-Discrimination Office, all Denver employers subject to the municipal antidiscrimination ordinance must post the Denver, Colorado Antidiscrimination Poster.
Colorado employers seeking to educate employees about the availability of leave for Civil Air Patrol missions and to demonstrate compliance with the law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook .
Colorado employers seeking to educate employees about the availability of leave for volunteer firefighters and to demonstrate compliance with Colorado's volunteer firefighter leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Colorado employers seeking to educate employees about the availability of leave for qualified volunteers and to demonstrate compliance with Colorado's qualified volunteer leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Colorado employers seeking to explain how the handbook and supplement should be read together and that neither the handbook nor the supplement alter an employee's at-will status should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Colorado employers seeking to show compliance and support for the Colorado law requiring that employers provide unpaid break time and private locations for employees to express breast milk should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Colorado employers that have parental leave policies that do not extend the same leave, under the same terms, to adoptive parents as to biological parents and seek to ensure that leave is offered to adoptive parents in compliance with Colorado law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Colorado employers that employ 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year and seek to educate employees, including supervisors, about the extension of certain leave rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to employees in domestic partnerships or civil unions should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.