March 8, 2010
Some legislators seem to wake up every morning during the session, asking themselves, "What can I do today to make Colorado a less appealing place to do business?" Pueblo's Sal Pace is certainly doing his part, by offering a bill that, even in its watered-down version, would make it harder for companies to make the case against employees who are running workman's compensation scams.
Early renditions of the bill would have limited the ability of companies to conduct certain types of surveillance on employees claiming injuries. Some of those provisions were eliminated, as a result of one very obvious objection -- that this would green light more worker's compensation fraud. But the bill isn't dead yet, unfortunately, leaving Colorado's business community to wonder why, in the midst of an economic calamity, legislators seem to be looking for new ways to drive companies over the brink.
