Promoted as business-friendly, lawmaking reveals a growing disconnect
Dismissing hard-to-measure costs has become the new normal over four years dominated by one party. The resulting policies will have outsized negative …
HB1305 Paid Family Medical Leave Premium Reduction
A proposal to offer a small short-term discount on the tax obligation for the new paid leave program is helpful, but fiscal decisions should instead …
Policy challenge: we understand common words differently.
Proponents believe that Government's ability to spread risk across so many makes it uniquely suited to manage it. But we understand scale differently …
Brief bill history – Colorado legislation related to Paid Family and Medical Leave
View a grid ad read a brief summary of related legislation leading up to the passage of paid leave in Colorado through a ballot initiative in …
Why imposing one 12 week standard on all businesses neglects their complex needs.
Complex systems thrive with options. But the government paid leave mandate starves options. For some businesses, 12 weeks is the wrong amount of …
A Colorado Paid Family and Medical Leave Task Force Perspective
Originally published shortly after we delivered a final report to the CO general Assembly, this provides links to resources and work product of the …
Why 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 …
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 …
Paid Leave Job Protection – a Disguised Threat to Upward Mobility.
Job protection is probably the least understood policy lever of government paid leave. It has extraordinary power combined with wage replacement …
Small Businesses Left to Figure Out a New Law That’s a Poor Fit for Them
Workers' advocacy groups have succeeded in imposing default business practices as mandates administered and enforced by our state department of labor. …
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?
Not enough people are talking about how and why government paid leave programs are failing to achieve equity goals. Flawed assumptions are at the …