Signature by Governor Ed C. Johnson was expected today to a measure putting teeth into Colorado’s fair employment practices legislation. The measure won passage after the lower house of the Legislature concurred in two Senate amendments.
The measure incorporated recommendations of the Governor’s commission on Human Relations, the effect of which will be to place the Fair Employment Practice office under the supervision of the Commission. The Commission itself becomes the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Division of the Department of Industrial Relations.
The bill gives the agency authority to initiate complaints, facilitates the filing of bias complaints by aggrieved employees and extends provisions of the act to cover those engaged in any work “financed in part or in whole by money raised by taxation.
The anti-bias legislation does not cover private employment in the State.
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