Employers Should Beware of Colorado Employment Verification Audits

The Colorado Division of Labor is conducting more than a thousand audits on employers each year to enforce Colorado’s Employment Verification Law. The Division has conducted approximately 200 complaint-based audits, 5,400 random audits, and 650 re-audits (more than 6,000 audits total) of employers with employees in Colorado since the Law went into effect on January 1, 2007. It has levied over $500,000 in fines and fined more than 160 individual employers.