Blog - Colorado Policy Pathways

Are you concerned about how policies will impact your career, business, or family?

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Alter or clarify your perspective

We experience the world differently and value different things. Consider complex policies from a broad perspective to better recognize their impact to you and society.

Ask new questions

Can we integrate new ideas by asking better questions?

Understand the stakes

We are increasingly willing to pull policy levers without caution or humility for the unknowns. What does this mean for you and your future? To society as a whole?

One Government Paid Leave Scheme is a Bad Fit for the US.

Government-administered paid leave should be allowed to succeed or fail in the states. People imagine the policy to be a sophisticated, finely tuned …

Paid Leave: Local government employees are given a choice. Why?

One feature of Colorado’s new paid leave law that has drawn little attention is the curious exclusion of local government employees and …

Senate Bill 176 – Workplace Harassment – Key Provisions

SB176 Protecting Opportunities And Workers’ Rights Act Prime Sponsors: Senators Winter & Pettersen and Representatives Lontine & Gray …

Workplace harassment bill would invite litigation

As society continues to deliberate what harassment is and what it is not, we must agree on a clear line. Without clear lines, we invite litigation.

Which Workplace Behaviors Should be Against the Law?

We need to tread carefully as we consider the expansion of legal sanctions for harassment in the workplace. Proposed SB176, Protecting …

Leave Mandate Won’t Deliver as Promised

Originally published in Colorado Politics Mar 10, 2021 Another legislative session is already well underway at the Capitol in Denver, yet …

We need to stop looking for the answer.

A recent interview by Gretchen Rubin with Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing, prompted me to pull his book from my bookshelf. It is …

Paid Leave Job Protection – a Disguised Threat to Upward Mobility.

The biggest misconception about paid leave is that it is primarily a funding program to support working caregivers. Money in, money out. No wonder it …

Small Businesses Left to Figure Out a New Law That’s a Poor Fit for Them

Colorado voters recently passed a government-run employee benefit, paid family and medical leave. It is being celebrated as a giant step forward for …

Paid Leave – a Closer Look at Solvency and Sustainability

Colorado recently passed an expansive version of a state-run paid family and medical leave program. The benefits are alluring, some say a moral …

Can a Government Paid Leave Program Promote Equity?

The ostensible goal of government paid family leave is to promote equity. Like triage, there seem to be three broad groups of need among working …

Prop 118 Will Hasten the Decline of Opportunity.

Businesses across the state have issued warnings and pleas for seven years urging lawmakers to resist recently proposed approaches to providing paid …