Workforce and Unemployment Guidance

The ability to continue production and maintain quality levels, staff, retention of experienced staff, ease of returning to full production when economic conditions are better, and lower costs for hiring and training new employees.

• You are applying to be in the Program instead of laying off your employees.
• You are reducing the hours of at least 2 employees in a certain unit. You would have laid off at
  least that many employees.
• You are reducing the work hours of that group by at least 10 percent but by no more than 40
  percent.
• You will not hire or have other employees work in that group.
• Your employees’ collective-bargaining agent (union), if any, must agree to the plan.
• You cannot get rid of or reduce employees’ benefits that you currently provide. These include
  health insurance, retirement/pension benefits, vacation pay and holidays, sick leave, and any
  other similar benefits you normally provide.

For more information and to apply for the Work Share Program, please click here.

Job placement assistance, on-site layoff transition workshops, services to help reduce employee attrition prior to defined layoff date, and more.

For more information, request it via email here.

Allows a 50% refundable tax credit on up to $10,000 in wages per employee, per quarter. The CARES Act also created an advance option for this credit, which can be applied for via this form (7200).

The conditions that need to be met are:

1. Business is fully or partially suspended due to a government order during COVID-19 outbreak, OR
2. Decline of 50%+ of gross receipts, until gross receipts recover to 80% of a quarter in a prior year (2019)

Employers can be immediately reimbursed for the credit by reducing their required deposits of payroll taxes that have been withheld from employees’ wages by the amount of the credit.

Eligible employers will report their total qualified wages and the related health insurance costs for each quarter on their quarterly employment tax returns or Form 941 beginning with the second quarter. If the employer’s employment tax deposits are not sufficient to cover the credit, the employer may receive an advance payment from the IRS by submitting Form 7200, Advance Payment of Employer Credits Due to COVID-19.

To determine if you are eligible, please visit this page. Currently, this includes employees:

• That, for any reason, has had reduced hours or wages (including hourly
  and tipped employees) OR have been furloughed and will be returning to your job;
• That has been laid off permanently with no intention of returning to your job; or
• Unable to go to work because the place of employment is closed as a result of an Executive Order or other shelter-in-place order.

All other COVID-19 related claims, including self employed are not yet being accepted. Please bookmark this page and check back often for the latest information.

Regular unemployment benefits (26 weeks) + (Under the CARES ACT – No action needed) $600/week on top of your regular unemployment benefits and up to 13 additional weeks of expanded unemployment benefits.

Please note:

• If your last name begins with a letter from A to M: Please file your unemployment claim on a Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, or after 12 noon on Saturday.
  If your last name begins with a letter from N to Z: Please file your unemployment claim on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or before 12 noon on Saturday.
• The State of Colorado is waiving the standard waiting-week requirement before benefits can be paid. This waiver applies to all claimants regardless of the reason for filing for any waiting week not yet served as of 03/15/20 and later until the Governor’s Executive Order expires. The waiting week will also be waived in the system, as well as work-search requirements.