Colorado § 8-2-107 - Workman engaged by false representations to recover damages.

§ 8-2-107. Workman engaged by false representations to recover damages.

Any workman of this state, or any workman of another state who is influenced, induced, or persuaded to engage with any persons mentioned in section 8-2-104, through or by means of any of the things therein prohibited has a right of action for recovery of all damages that each such workman has sustained in consequence of the false or deceptive representations, false advertising, and false pretenses used to induce him to change his place of employment against any person, corporation, company, or association, directly or indirectly, causing such damages. In addition to all actual damages such workmen may have sustained, they shall be entitled to recover such reasonable attorney fees as the court shall fix, to be taxed as costs in any judgment recovered.

Source: L. 11: p. 487, § 4. C.L. § 4159. CSA: C. 97, § 74. CRS 53: § 80-4-7. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-11-7.

ANNOTATION

No false representation by defendant where, although plaintiff expressed an interest in "permanent" employment at time of interview, defendant never represented employment as "permanent" and handbook provided to plaintiff specifically stated that employment was subject to changing conditions. Further, fact that plaintiff moved to Colorado from out-of-state for the job and provided services commensurate with position, alone, without plaintiff providing any extra or special consideration for which a jury might find that plaintiff had purchased the job, inadequate for finding of promise of permanent employment. Schur v. Storage Tech. Corp., 878 P.2d 51 (Colo. App. 1994).