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NFIB Asks for Veto of Colorado House Bill 1008 

NFIB Asks for Veto of Colorado House Bill 1008 

May 16, 2024 Last Edit: March 19, 2026

NFIB Asks for Veto of Colorado House Bill 1008 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Tony Gagliardi, Colorado State Director, Tony.Gagliardi@nfib.org   or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, Anthony.Malandra@nfib.org   DENVER, May 16, 2024—Colorado’s leading small-business association today asked Gov. Jared Polis for a veto of House Bill 1008, calling it economically disruptive and needlessly punitive against the construction industry.  “Too often some legislators are happy to trash employers and exaggerate the woes of workers,” said Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “This unbalanced focus has emboldened progressive lawmakers and worker advocates to push for more extreme workplace policies to the detriment of small businesses.”  Sent to the governor on Tuesday, HB24-1008 treats a general contractor as an employer for the employees of a subcontractor by passing liability for wage discrepancies onto the general contractor who has no control over a subcontractor’s employees.  “The bill’s ‘piercing of the corporate veil’ would upend long-standing law by involving Joint and Several Liability upon two, unrelated employers,” said Gagliardi. “Changing the rule of law that underpins our economic prosperity just for the pleasure of a handful of people who want to give the appearance of doing something good without realizing the harm they’re inflicting is a bad reason to bring this bill into law, and we ask Governor Polis to veto it.”  Keep up with the latest Colorado small-business news at www.nfib.com/CO and on Twitter @NFIB_CO   ###   For 80 years, NFIB has been advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member-driven association. Since its founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses and remains so today. For more information, please visit nfib.com.   NFIB Colorado   1700 Lincoln St.   17th Floor  Denver, CO 80203   303-831-6099   NFIB.com/CO   Twitter: @NFIB_CO  

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