If you’re a journeyman construction worker, you may have heard about the latest challenge facing construction workers: wage theft. Legitimate employers aren’t the problem, of course. But the problem has become common enough in the Denver area that the City Council there recently passed an ordinance making it a crime to “knowingly refuse to pay …
The life of the freelancer has begun to lose its appeal. You set yourself up as a contractor several years ago. At first, the freedom and variety was highly appealing. But you never thought lining up clients, invoicing them, and then having to gather the required 1099 forms at tax time would be so time-consuming …
We know that work is scarce and times are challenging. We also know that this, too, shall pass. Until it does, until this coronavirus pandemic is defeated, you may have lost your job or had your hours slashed. The good news is that the $2 trillion stimulus package passed by Congress in late March includes a big expansion …
The rules raised to $684 per week, or $35,568 a year, the threshold at which employees are exempt from being paid overtime. That’s a 50.3% increase from the previous threshold of $455 per week or $23,660 annually – and it means more than 1 million workers are now eligible for overtime anytime they work more than 40 hours a week.
As far as equal-pay laws go, Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act will be one of the toughest when it goes into effect Jan. 1, 2021. Employers at the moment have about a year to get things right, including making sure their notices are in order. In the simplest terms, each job posting will …
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Denver is raising its minimum wage, passing a new law that requires employers to bump hourly employees to at least $12.85 on Jan. 1, which is 85 cents higher than the state minimum.
