by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here are some timely resources. First, with the state legislature underway, the Chamber’s state issues committee – the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance – is analyzing, tracking, and lobbying on bills. Click here for the NCLA 2020 bill tracker. Second, the...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
As expected, the issue of paid leave for family and medical reasons is being discussed again this year in the state legislature, though no bill has been introduced. Last year Senate Bill 19-188 called for the creation of a major state entitlement program. It would...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
This morning I received a ‘Client Alert’ from the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck with an update about the number of citizen-initiated ballot measures being proposed in Colorado. According to the firm, so far 257 ballot measures have been submitted for...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
On Saturday one of our friends and active members, Valerie Arnold, died from cancer. She lit up every room she entered. An attorney who became a realtor, she was a former Assistant Attorney General and counsel to Colorado Division of Real Estate. With the Chamber,...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
News broke over the weekend about the planned merger of Fort Collins-based Woodward and Stamford, Connecticut-based Hexcel Corporation. The deal will close in the fall. Two companies serving the aerospace and defense industries will merge to create one company with a...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jan 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Starting a few days ago, new overtime pay rules went into effect. On January 1, a new federal Labor Department rule requires employers to pay workers one-and-a-half times their hourly rate when they work more than 40 hours per week for those earning less than $35,568...
