Tag: colorado department of labor and employment
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El Paso County will repay state $1.24M in expended pandemic funds to stop penalties against other agencies
In giving unanimous approval Tuesday to an eight-page resolution to repay the state $1.24 million in expended federal pandemic relief funding for workforce training that had been funneled through the Pikes Peak Workforce Center to a now-defunct nonprofit, the five-member board of El Paso County commissioners said the decision will remedy part of an unintended…
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Banning Lewis Academy cutting ties with management company
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to include a statement from Accel Schools. Banning Lewis Academy is moving on from its charter school management organization and toward a more in-house operation. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter on April 30 from Accel Schools to…
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Colorado saw job losses for the first time since pandemic
Colorado’s job market last year appears to have been dimmer than it was originally believed to have been, new state data revisions show. The labor market wasn’t slowly growing, but rather it contracted in 2025. The state saw job losses for the first time since the pandemic last year, according to annual benchmarking data released…
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Gov. Jared Polis moves to end ICE subpoena fight over Colorado workers’ personal data
The effort by Gov. Jared Polis to comply with an administrative subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for information held by several state agencies is over. Polis, in a motion filed Feb. 20, asked for a permanent injunction and final judgment that would bar the governor or any other state employees from producing records…
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Judge denies motion from Gov. Jared Polis to dismiss ICE lawsuit from former state employee
A Denver District Court judge has denied a request by Gov. Jared Polis to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former state employee over disclosure of information to federal immigration authorities. The lawsuit filed against the governor by Scott Moss, then the director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Division of Labor Standards…
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Colorado will help furloughed federal workers claim unemployment benefits
As civilian federal workers in Colorado wait for word as to whether they will be furloughed by a federal government shutdown, the state’s Department of Labor and Employment is reaching out to aid workers in claiming unemployment benefits. The agency, which made the announcement early Wednesday, reiterated that many federal workers could be eligible for…
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Court reinstates wage appeal, finds state agency couldn’t establish missed deadline
Colorado’s second-highest court last month reinstated a company’s appeal in a wage violation case, finding the state’s labor department neglected to indicate when it mailed its original decision and further misrepresented the deadline to appeal. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals considered the narrow, but novel, issue of what happens when a party…
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Study: Lowest-paid jobs in Colorado hit hardest by COVID-19 pandemic
Colorado’s lowest-paid workers have been hit hardest by job losses from restrictions to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, statistics from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment show. Jobs such as food preparation and serving, personal care and services and sales-related positions shed the most jobs in the 12 months that ended in…