What Are the Law Updates for Employers in August 2020? Part 1

This episode goes through law updates in August 2020:

• California Unemployment Insurance: Tax-rated employers will receive relief from unemployment insurance benefit charges related to COVID-19. Alongside other states, California will not count COVID-19-related claims against employers.
• Colorado Labor Relations: The Colorado Partnership for Quality Jobs and Services Act was enacted to provide state employees with the right to self-organization. This law gives more freedom to employees to not participate in unions.
• Colorado Paid Sick Leave: The Healthy Families and Workplaces Act creates paid sick leave in Colorado. Under the new law, upon hire, employers begin accruing paid sick leave at the rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours.
• Colorado Unemployment Insurance: The maximum weekly benefit amount in Colorado effective July 1, 2020, is $590. The alternative maximum weekly benefit amount is $649. The minimum weekly benefit amount remains $25.
• Colorado Whistleblower Protections: The Worker Rights Related to a Public Health Emergency law prohibits employers from discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee who raises a concern about workplace health and safety practices or hazards related to a public health emergency.
• Connecticut Minimum Wage: The minimum wage in Connecticut will increase to $12 per hour on September 1, 2020, per a scheduled increase.

About the author, Rhamy

Rhamy grew up watching and working with his mother and grandmother in the senior insurance market. This familiarity with the struggles faced by people trying to navigate the incredibly complicated and heavily regulated healthcare market led him to start Poplar Financial while working on his degree at the University of Memphis. After completing his MBA and Bachelors in Finance and Economics, Rhamy guided Poplar Financial through the disruptive opportunity that is the Affordable Care Act. Since then Poplar Financial has received numerous awards from major insurance carriers and has completed its fourth year in a row of doubling in size. Now his team focuses on the processes around human resources and specializes in providing companies with between 20 and 1000 employees with the payroll, benefits, and HR needs.