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Discriminate At Your Own Risk: Colorado's Employment Discrimination Laws Are Getting Quite The Rehaul

Ideally, you’d have some familiarity with the rules before your work relationship gets rocky.

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Colorado!

Colorado is known for a lot of things. The Rocky Mountains…. OK, they’re mostly just known for the Rocky Mountains and an above average gold rush name-based basketball team. But times are a-changing. Colorado is looking to change the legal landscape in areas other than legalizing shrooms. They’ve set their sights on employment law!

The Colorado legislature recently approved significant changes to the state’s employment discrimination laws enshrined in the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (“CADA”). The modifying legislation, titled “Updates to Employment Discrimination Laws” (HB 22-1367), extends the time within which a worker may allege a violation of CADA, expands CADA’s protections to domestic workers and expands remedies available to employees who allege they have suffered age discrimination.

Woop Woop! A legal outcome that breaks my heart is when litigants are denied relief because they “sat on their rights.” Extending the time window that the aggrieved have to allege violations is generally a thumbs-up from me. Before the change, the Act allotted 180 days to file a claim. This window has widened to 300 days.

Thankfully, you have some time to acquaint yourself with the new rules; the employment discrimination laws will be effective on Aug. 10, 2022.

Recent Changes to Colorado’s Employment Discrimination Laws [JD Supra]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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