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.
