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 …
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 …
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 …
Prop 118 Will Hasten the Decline of Opportunity.
Mandated paid leave sorts, sifts, and directs the outcomes. Not everybody wins. It is doubtful that depriving small businesses, women, and unskilled …
Paid Leave May Hinder, Not Help, Career Growth for Women.
The paid leave scheme uses powerful policy levers to manipulate employment agreements on a state or nation-wide scale. There are surprising costs.
Paid Leave – Is It Sustainable?
Advocate for paid leave are relying heavily on poorly supported assumptions that the program will experience slow, predictable growth keeping it …
Expectations for Colorado Paid Family Leave Should be Tempered by the Potential Risks.
The health benefits of family leave are heavily supported and widely acknowledged. Their popularity has driven rising efforts to provide them in the …
Key terms – a primer to government paid leave
Despite the extensive discussion about family leave in the media and among various forums, there is still wide-spread confusion about the essential …