Blogs

Workplace Accommodation for Nursing Mothers – Updated due to changes and implementations of the PUMP Act, PWFA, ADA, and CO Nursing Mothers Act. 

Data Disposal – Policy around consumer and employee data disposal. 

Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) – Provides new reasons for the use of sick leave and removes public health emergency provisions.   

Bereavement – This is now covered under the HFWA. Your company will want to consider if they will provide paid time off in addition to HFWA or if they want to only offer HFWA time. 

Social Media – Changes made in response to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling on the Stericycle case. Also updated were confidential information, inspections and searches, employee surveillance, and conflict of interest policies. 

Equal Employment Opportunity/Sexual Harassment – Implementation of the Protecting Opportunities and Workers’ Rights Act (POWR) and expansion of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). 

Federal Contractor Ban on TikTok App – All federal contractors must comply with the newly introduced Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.204-27, which specifies the ban of the TikTok application on employee devices used in relation to federal contracts. 

Content Generating AI Software – Recommended policy around growing use of AI in the workplace. 

Colorado Secure Savings Act – Most Colorado employers are required to provide a retirement option or enroll employees in the Secure Savings program. There is a sample policy for both options.  

COMPS –The newest poster for 2024. 

FAMLI – Implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program (FAMLI). 

Remove separate medical leave policies for those employers not under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or with pre- or post-FMLA medical leave policies as these are now covered under FAMLI. 

Colorado Family Care Act – Most companies run this concurrently with FMLA and likely plan on running it concurrently with FAMLI as well. It is recommended to update language to include FAMLI in your FMLA and Colorado Family Care Act policy.