WITHDRAWN (Amendment 57 -- Additional Remedies for Injured Employees)

WTITHDRAWN - Will appear on ballot, but votes won't count.

This would allow an employee injured on the job to file suit to seek compensation beyond that already allowed under workers’ compensation if the employee believes that lack of a safe and healthy workplace contributed to the injury. Only employers with 10 or more employees would be subject to such suits.

STATUTORY Change

Recommendation: lean no
Of the four amendments (53, 55, 56 and 57) petitioned onto the ballot in retaliation for Amendment 47, this one appears to have the least support from organized groups. Allowing damages over workers’ compensation levels might be a good idea, but I need to hear more before I'd be willing to change the current law.


Website for Yes side (Coloradans for Middle Class Relief)
No initiative-specific website found, but some info at website below.
http://ufcw7.canvastoolbox.com/

Website for No side (Coloradans for Responsible Reform)
http://www.nopoisonpills.com/


Amendment 57 (Approved ballot title below)

Additional Remedies for Injured Employees

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a safe workplace for employees, and, in connection therewith, requiring employers to provide safe and healthy workplaces for their employees; restricting such requirement to employers regularly employing ten or more employees in the state; and enabling employees who are injured because of an employer's violation of this requirement to file suit in district court, with the right to a jury trial, to recover compensatory and exemplary damages, actual past or future pecuniary losses, and noneconomic losses including pain and suffering, emotional distress, inconvenience, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment of life, but prohibiting injured employees from recovering any damages for which the employee already received compensation pursuant to the "Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado"?

Yes ________________ No ________________

To see the full text of the proposed measure, click here, then click on “2008 State Ballot Information Booklet” at the top of the page.