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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?

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 …

Paid Leave May Hinder, Not Help, Career Growth for Women.

Paid Leave is not a new concept. Many of the European social welfare states sped up the development of these policies in the mid-1990s. After several …

Statistic of Working Birth Moms May Fuel Reckless Urgency.

“1 in 4 moms return to work two weeks after giving birth” is a claim we are hearing often as the clock ticks down to convince voters to approve or …

Prop 118 – Yet Another Painful Blow to Small Businesses?

For the last 7 years, one paid leave proposal after another has failed to gain enough consensus to pass the Colorado State Legislature. Each and every …

Paid Leave – Is It Sustainable?

Among the states and countries now providing wage supports for caregiving, Colorado Prop 118 would create a program with more breadth than most. It is …