Denver sick leave measure loses big
Denver’s Initiative 300, which would have required all businesses in Denver to provide paid sick leave to employees lost big tonight, with a margin approaching 2-1.
Denver’s Initiative 300, which would have required all businesses in Denver to provide paid sick leave to employees lost big tonight, with a margin approaching 2-1.
Restaurant owner Jason Bailey said Thursday he supports Denver’s paid sick days initiative and he blasted the Colorado and National Restaurant Associations for fighting the ballot measure.
The Campaign for a Healthy Denver said today it is “outraged” that voters most affected by a lack of paid sick days could be prevented from voting on Initiative 300, a measure to allow all Denver voters to earn sick leave.
Colorado State Rep. Joel Judd, D-Denver, has come out in opposition to Denver Ballot Initiative 300, the so-called impound initiative. He criticized the proposed law as overreaching and unnecessary. “If Initiative 300 becomes law, police officers would be forced to…