Colorado Supreme Court Says Employers Can’t Maintain “Use-it-or-Lose-it” Vacation Pay Policies
By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21
The Colorado Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision on vacation pay yesterday, ruling that an employer must pay an employee’s earned but unused vacation pay upon separation from employment – and any agreement or policy forfeiting this pay is void as a matter of law. Colorado employers do not have to offer vacation pay to their workers as nothing in state law creates an automatic right to vacation pay. However, as confirmed by the June 14 decision in Nieto v. Clark’s Market, once an...
By: Fisher Phillips