State Alerts

The Colorado Division of Labor is conducting more than a thousand audits on employers each year to enforce Colorado’s Employment Verification Law. The Division has conducted approximately 200 complaint-based audits, 5,400 random audits, and 650 re-audits (more than 6,000 audits total) of employers with employees in Colorado since the Law went into effect on January 1, 2007. It has levied over $500,000 in fines and fined more than 160 individual employers. 

Continuing what may become a trend based on a previous California case, where employees paid on a piece rate were required to be paid at least the minimum wage for hours spent waiting to perform work, the California Court of Appeals in Bluford v. Safeway Stores Inc. Has ruled that under a piece rate system rest periods must be separately compensated. 

Continuing what may become a trend based on a previous California case, where employees paid on a piece rate were required to be paid at least the minimum wage for hours spent waiting to perform work, the California Court of Appeals in Bluford v. Safeway Stores Inc. Has ruled that under a piece rate system rest periods must be separately compensated.