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Colorado workers who take paid family or medical leave to care for themselves or a loved one can’t be punished for doing so when benefits under the new, voter-approved Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program become available in 2024.

At the same time, Colorado employers won’t be required to ignore an employee’s performance or retain an underperforming employee when they experience such a life event.

Those are just some of the new rules made final May 25, 2023. Employers and workers will want to make note of the following guidelines:

Colorado’s mandate to increase foster families will get an assist from the State's Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program, which will allow certified foster parents and kinship caregivers to qualify for up to 12 weeks of partial pay replacement for bonding leave.

As the days get longer and Colorado employers start staffing up for summer, experts from the new Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program are out in the community to explain how the program will work for temporary and seasonal employees.

FAMLI experts met recently with Colorado members of the Society for Human Resource Management to answer questions about FAMLI requirements. Meeting at the Colorado History Museum, one of the top questions from Mile High SHRM members was about summer interns and other seasonal workers.

 

The FAMLI Division is hosting another virtual town hall on Thursday, April 27 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ahead of the first premium deadline.

The FAMLI Division filed several proposed rules with the Secretary of State and the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) on April 14, 2023. A rulemaking public hearing will be held on Monday, May 15, 2023, beginning at 5 p.m. and ending once the last person who wishes to speak has been heard. 

The state’s new Family and Medical Leave Insurance program (FAMLI) won’t start paying benefits until 2024. But because new parents are eligible for paid leave anytime within the first 12 months after a birth, adoption or foster care placement, those parents may have some weeks of eligibility for a child who arrives in 2023.

New user’s guide comes as employers are required to submit premiums and wage reports under Colorado’s voter-approved paid family leave program.

For Colorado workers who might not be seeing FAMLI deductions, here are some possible explanations.

Division hosts statewide virtual meetings to help both businesses and employees understand Colorado’s new paid family leave law.

Here are the most important things nannies and other domestic workers (and those who employ them) need to know about Colorado's new FAMLI program.