[ Editor's note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any employer who discharges or threatens to discharge, or in any other way discriminates against an employee because such employee serves upon a wage board, or is active in its formation, or has testified or is about to testify, or because the employer believes that the employee may testify in any investigation or proceeding relative to enforcement of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each violation. The director shall investigate and report to the proper prosecuting officials whether employers in each occupation investigated are obeying his decrees, and the director or employees of the division may cause informations to be filed with and prosecutions to be instituted by the proper prosecuting officials for any violation of the provisions of this article.
Structure Colorado Code
Article 6 - Minimum Wages of Workers
§ 8-6-104. Wages Shall Be Adequate - Conditions Healthful and Moral
§ 8-6-105. Director to Investigate
§ 8-6-106. Determination of Minimum Wage and Conditions
§ 8-6-107. Powers of Director - Duty of Employer
§ 8-6-108. Public Hearings - Witness Fees - Contempt - Director to Make Rules
§ 8-6-108.5. Minimum Wage - Rules
§ 8-6-109. Methods of Establishing Minimum Wages - Wage Board
§ 8-6-110. Wage Board - Duties - Report - Quorum
§ 8-6-111. Director to Review Report
§ 8-6-112. New Determination of Wages and Conditions
§ 8-6-115. Discrimination by Employer - Penalty - Prosecutions
§ 8-6-115. Discrimination by Employer - Penalty - Prosecutions
§ 8-6-116. Violation - Penalty
§ 8-6-117. Minimum Wage Presumed Reasonable - Conclusiveness
§ 8-6-118. Recovery of Balance of Minimum Wage