§ 8-7.5-109 — Compliance assistance - violations - enforcement

Colorado § 8-7.5-109

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 08: Labor and
• Art.: Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board

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(1) The
director of the division of labor standards and statistics shall provide compliance
assistance to direct care employers as warranted and shall investigate leads
concerning possible violations of the training and notice requirements set forth in
this article 7.5 and other alleged labor violations against direct care workers that, in
the director's good faith discretion and judgment, warrant investigation.

(2) The director of the division of labor standards and statistics shall enforce
compliance and shall impose a fine on a direct care employer that violates this
article 7.5 of one hundred dollars for each direct care worker affected by each
violation. A direct care employer that demonstrates a good faith effort to comply
with this article 7.5 is not subject to a fine for the employer's first violation for a
worker covered by the violation. The director shall double the amount of the fine for
each violation after a prior violation of the same or similar type within five years.
The division shall transmit the money collected from fines imposed pursuant to this
subsection (2) to the state treasurer, who shall credit the money to the wage theft
enforcement fund created in section 8-4-113 (3).

Legislative History

Source: Entire section added, (HB 25-1328), ch. 263, p. 1349, � 3, effective August 6.