Colorado enacted a slew of employment-related legal guidelines within the 2022 legislative session. A significant new invoice, Senate Invoice 22-234, updates discover necessities for insurance coverage. unemployment insurance coverage that employers should present to staff within the occasion of dismissal.
Underneath preexisting Colorado regulation, employers are required to supply discover to staff upon termination that features:
- An announcement that unemployment insurance coverage advantages can be found to unemployed staff who meet the eligibility necessities below Colorado regulation.
- Contact particulars for submitting a criticism.
- Info the employee might want to file a declare.
- Contact data for data on the standing of their software after it has been submitted.
Senate Invoice 22-234 expands the knowledge employers are required to supply on the time of termination to incorporate the next data:
- Title of employer.
- Employer’s handle.
- The identify of the worker.
- Worker handle.
- Worker identification quantity or the final 4 digits of the worker’s social safety quantity.
- The worker’s first and final work dates.
- Cumulative earnings of the worker because the starting of the yr.
- Worker’s wage for the final week labored.
- The explanation the worker separated from the employer.
Discover containing this data could also be in digital or paper kind and should be offered to all staff on the time of termination, whatever the motive for termination.
The requirement to supply the above discover got here into impact as quickly because the invoice was proclaimed into regulation on Could 25. With the Colorado Division of Labor and Employment anticipated to launch a mannequin discover within the coming months, Colorado employers ought to take motion now to make sure they supply staff with each component of knowledge required below present Colorado regulation, and due to this fact might want to create their very own discover to staff within the occasion of termination.
David C. Gartenberg and Jennifer S. Harpole are attorneys at Littler in Denver. © 2022 Littler. All rights reserved. Republished with permission.
