Colorado Code
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 8-2-108. Unlawful for Employer to Prevent Employees Participating in Politics

(1) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022. ] It is unlawful for any corporation, company, partnership, association, individual, or any employer of labor, or for any agent thereof to make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy forbidding or preventing any of his or her employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming a candidate for public office or being elected to and entering upon the duties of any public office. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section commits a class 2 misdemeanor.


Source: L. 29: p. 429, §§ 1-3. CSA: C. 97, § 75. L. 37: p. 795, § 1. CRS 53: § 80-4-8. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-11-8. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3138, § 78, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

Structure Colorado Code

Colorado Code

Title 8 - Labor and Industry

Article 2 - Labor Relations, Generally

Part 1 - General Provisions

§ 8-2-101. Combination of Employees for Peaceable Objects Lawful

§ 8-2-102. Coercion of Employees Unlawful

§ 8-2-103. Penalty for Coercing Employees

§ 8-2-103. Penalty for Coercing Employees

§ 8-2-104. Obtaining Workmen by Misrepresentation Unlawful

§ 8-2-105. Penalty

§ 8-2-105. Penalty

§ 8-2-106. Armed Guards - When Lawful

§ 8-2-107. Workman Engaged by False Representations to Recover Damages

§ 8-2-108. Unlawful for Employer to Prevent Employees Participating in Politics

§ 8-2-109. Rights of Person Charged With Contempt

§ 8-2-110. Unlawful to Publish Blacklist

§ 8-2-111. Penalty for Blacklisting

§ 8-2-111. Penalty for Blacklisting

§ 8-2-111.5. Certain Employment References - Exception to Blacklisting Prohibition

§ 8-2-111.6. Health-Care Employers - Immunity From Civil Liability - Requirements - Exception to Blacklisting Prohibition - Legislative Declaration

§ 8-2-111.7. Employees Working With Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Immunity From Civil Liability - Requirements - Exception to Blacklisting Prohibition - Legislative Declaration - Definitions

§ 8-2-112. Unlawful to Publish Notice of Boycott

§ 8-2-112. Unlawful to Publish Notice of Boycott

§ 8-2-113. Unlawful to Intimidate Worker - Agreement Not to Compete

§ 8-2-114. Immunity From Civil Liability for Employer Disclosing Information - Employer Shall Not Maintain Blacklist - Credit Lists Excepted

§ 8-2-115. Violation of Sections - Misdemeanor - Repeal

§ 8-2-118. Cost of Medical Examination - Employer and Employee Defined

§ 8-2-119. Awards of Back Pay - Deduction of Unemployment Compensation

§ 8-2-120. Residency Requirements Prohibited for Public Employment - Legislative Declaration - Definitions

§ 8-2-122. Employment Verification Requirements - Audits - Fine for Fraudulent Documents - Cash Fund Created - Definitions

§ 8-2-123. Health-Care Workers - Retaliation Prohibited - Definitions

§ 8-2-124. Electronic Verification Program - Availability - Notice to Employers - Definitions

§ 8-2-125. Identification of Workers Engaged in Off-Site Work - Permissible Forms of Identification - Exceptions - Definitions

§ 8-2-126. Employer Use of Consumer Credit Information - Violation - Short Title - Definitions

§ 8-2-127. Prohibitions of Employer - Requiring Access to Personal Electronic Communication Devices - Definitions - Rules

§ 8-2-128. Prohibitions of Employer - Requiring Social Security Number - Exceptions

§ 8-2-129. Access to Personnel Files and Records - Definitions - Exemptions

§ 8-2-130. Criminal History - Limits on Advertisements and Applications - Exceptions - Enforcement - Rules - Short Title - Definitions