Employer Mandates in Colorado
Issue Background: For the past three years business groups have observed repeated attempts by the Legislature to impose mandates upon business owners regarding everything from breast-feeding to mandatory parental leave for school activities. Employers have fought attempts by the legislature to impose itself in the relationship between the employer and the employee.
Proponents of these mandates insist that employers are unbending in their regards for employee's rights. Various labor groups will state that employees are not allowed personal time to attend school functions or attend to a new born.
Opponents state that employers already negotiate personal leave and other special needs in the workplace with the employee on an individual basis. When the state intercedes in these relationships it removes the employer from the equation and subjects the employee to a one-size-fits-all policy.
