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Convenient one-stop shop for health care providers preparing for Colorado’s new paid family leave requirements is up and running.

Wages, local governments get updates under new FAMLI rules. Here’s what employers and third party administrators need to know.

Just like there is more than one reason to need to step away from the office, Colorado has different laws governing employee leave and sick time.

Making sense of it all gets complicated. Starting August 7, 2023, Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) expands to give Colorado employees more access to use accrued paid sick leave.

Division leaders will visit Colorado communities to prepare workers for the new paid family and medical leave insurance program.

The most notable proposed changes to the existing rules include changes to the definition of wages subject to FAMLI premiums, provisions for self-employed individuals and clarifications for local governments. 

We know the word “family” may mean something different to everyone.

When FAMLI begins paying benefits in 2024, leave for bonding with a new child is not limited to birthing parents. 

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.