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 …


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

Workers' advocacy groups have succeeded in imposing default business practices as mandates administered and enforced by our state department of labor. …

Mandated paid leave sorts, sifts, and directs the outcomes. Not everybody wins. It is doubtful that depriving small businesses, women, and unskilled …

The paid leave scheme uses powerful policy levers to manipulate employment agreements on a state or nation-wide scale. There are surprising costs.

Many are concerned about the broader implications of a one size fits all policy on this scale. Among those implications, the risks to small businesses …

Voters face a complex decision that is essentially irreversible. This controversial model proposed by advocates is one of many and we should not rush …
