Equal Pay

8-5-101 - Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Repealed.

(2) "Director" means the director of the division of labor.

(3) "Division" means the division of labor in the department of labor and employment.

(4) "Employee" means any individual in the employment of any employer.

(5) "Employer" means the state and every county, city, town, and body corporate and politic therein and every person, corporation, partnership, and association, including those operating in a representative capacity.

(6) "Employment" means any trade, occupation, job, or position in which any person may be engaged in the service of another for wages or salary, except household and domestic servants and farm and ranch laborers.

8-5-102 - Wage discrimination prohibited.
No employer shall make any discrimination in the amount or rate of wages or salary paid or to be paid his employees in any employment in this state solely on account of the sex thereof.

8-5-103 - Enforcement - rules and regulations - complaints.

(1) The director has the power to administer, carry out, and enforce all of the provisions of this article and may promulgate rules and regulations for that purpose. Copies of the rules and regulations shall be furnished by the division to all employees and employers upon written request.

(2) Upon written complaint, duly executed and verified, by any employee that any employer has, within one year from the date of such complaint, violated the provisions of section 8-5-102, the director or any referee of the division may proceed to hear and determine such complaint, and the director may make an award upon said complaint. Judicial review may be had of any award of the director under this article pursuant to section 24-4-106, C.R.S.

8-5-104 - Employer liability - awards - suits.

An employer who violates the provisions of section 8-5-102 is liable in an amount equal to the difference between the amount which he paid to the complaining employee and the amount which the employee would have received had there been no discrimination; and, if the director finds that such discrimination was willful, the director may impose a penalty upon the employer in addition thereto of not more than the amount of such difference. The amount of such liability so determined by the director shall constitute the award of the director. Such award shall be the property of the employee but may be recovered for the employee in a suit brought by the director in his name in any court in the county of the residence of the employer within this state having jurisdiction of the amount of the demand in the suit. The director may join in one suit all of his awards against any one employer under this article.

8-5-105 - Records open to inspection.

When complaint is made to the division by any employee against any employer for a violation of this article, all books, records, and payrolls of such employer, material and pertinent to such complaint, shall be open for inspection by the division or any of its agents duly appointed for that purpose.