Colorado § 8-7.5-109 - Compliance assistance - violations - enforcement.
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§ 8-7.5-109. Compliance assistance - violations - enforcement.
(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).
Source: Entire section added, (HB 25-1328), ch. 263, p. 1349, § 3, effective August 6.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 25-1328, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2025.
ARTICLE 8
Truck System Abolished
8-8-101 to 8-8-109. (Repealed)
Source: L. 95: Entire article repealed, p. 194, § 6, effective April 13.
Editor's note: This article was numbered as article 20 of chapter 80, C.R.S. 1963. For amendments to this article prior to its repeal in 1995, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume.
ARTICLE 9
Assignment of Wages
8-9-101. Assignment of wages - requirements.
8-9-102. Copies to be given employer and assignor.
8-9-103. When assignment must be recorded.
8-9-104. Joinder of wife or husband in assignment - acknowledgment.
8-9-105. Burden of proof of validity on assignee.
8-9-106. Deductions for union dues.
8-9-107. Other authorized deductions.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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