Title: Increases the Wages One Can Earn on Unemployment
Signed by Governor Jared Polis
Title: Increases the Wages One Can Earn on Unemployment
Vote to concur with House amendments and pass a bill that increases the possible wages one can earn before their unemployment is cut off.
Establishes an individual separated from a job must be given a full award of benefits if the division determines that any of the following reasons and pertinent related conditions exist (Sec. 4):
Separation from employment because the employer requires the employee to work in an environment that is not in compliance with:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines
State and federal laws, rules, and regulations
A governor’s executive order to close or modify business operations; and
Any public health order modifying business operations
Separation from employment because the employee is the caretaker of:
A child whose school is closed due to a public health emergency
A family member who is quarantined due to an illness
Separation from employment because the employee is immunocompromised.
Specifies the considerations of unemployment compensation, which includes the following (Sec. 4-5):
The degree of risk involved to health, safety, and morals,
Physical fitness and prior training,
Experience and prior earnings,
Length of unemployment and prospects for securing work in their customary occupation, and
The distance of the available local work from their residence.
Requires an employer to submit a work share plan to the division on forms and following procedures required by the director (Sec. 6-2).
Specifies an employee may be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits for a particular week if an amount consistent with a reduction in hours rules as established in an approved work share plan (Sec. 7).
Establishes the employment support fund (Sec. 8).
Requires the Department of Labor and Employment to study the modernization of worker benefits and protections (Sec. 11).
Title: Increases the Wages One Can Earn on Unemployment
Vote to amend and pass a bill that increases the possible wages one can earn before their unemployment is cut off.
Establishes an individual separated from a job must be given a full award of benefits if the division determines that any of the following reasons and pertinent related conditions exist (Sec. 4):
Separation from employment because the employer requires the employee to work in an environment that is not in compliance with:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines
State and federal laws, rules, and regulations
A governor’s executive order to close or modify business operations; and
Any public health order modifying business operations
Separation from employment because the employee is the caretaker of:
A child whose school is closed due to a public health emergency
A family member who is quarantined due to an illness
Separation from employment because the employee is immunocompromised.
Specifies the considerations of unemployment compensation, which includes the following (Sec. 4-5):
The degree of risk involved to health, safety, and morals,
Physical fitness and prior training,
Experience and prior earnings,
Length of unemployment and prospects for securing work in their customary occupation, and
The distance of the available local work from their residence.
Requires an employer to submit a work share plan to the division on forms and following procedures required by the director (Sec. 6-2).
Specifies an employee may be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits for a particular week if an amount consistent with a reduction in hours rules as established in an approved work share plan (Sec. 7).
Establishes the employment support fund (Sec. 8).
Requires the Department of Labor and Employment to study the modernization of worker benefits and protections (Sec. 11).
Title: Increases the Wages One Can Earn on Unemployment
Title: Increases the Wages One Can Earn on Unemployment