A wage-theft transparency measure that died in the Colorado legislature last year passed unanimously Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee.
The amended version of HB 17-1021 is identical to a proposal that earned bipartisan House support in 2016 but was killed in a Senate committee. The bill allows the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to disclose whether an employer has cheated its workers.
Currently, under the state’s interpretation of a century-old statute, wage-law violations committed by Colorado companies must be kept from the public, even after an investigation is over and a citation has been issued.