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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 @ 15:19 || State Amendments and Referendums || Politics

• Amendment 46: Discrimination and Preferential Treatment by Governments
• Amendment 47: Prohibition on Mandatory Labor Union Membership and Dues
• Amendment 48: Definition of Person
• Amendment 49: Allowable Government Paycheck Deductions
• Amendment 50: Limited Gaming in Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek
• Amendment 51: State Sales Tax Increase for Services for People with Developmental Disabilities
• Amendment 52: Use of Severance Tax Revenue for Highways
• Amendment 53: Criminal Accountability of Business Executives
• Amendment 54: Campaign Contributions from Certain Government Contractors
• Amendment 55: Allowable Reasons for Employee Discharge or Suspension
• Amendment 56: Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance
• Amendment 57: Additional Remedies for Injured Employees
• Amendment 58: Severance Taxes on the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
• Amendment 59: Education Funding and TABOR Rebates
• Referendum L: Qualifications for Serving in the State Legislature
• Referendum M: Obsolete Constitutional Provision Relating to Land Value Increases
• Referendum N: Obsolete Constitutional Provisions Relating to Alcohol Beverages
• Referendum O: Citizen-Initiated State Laws

So, I poked around and found out more about these.

53 Criminal Accountability of Business Executives

I'm voting NO on this one.

55 Allowable Reasons for Employee Discharge or Suspension

Hell NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO.

This changes our "At-Will" status to "Just Cause". Currently, I can fire employees at my discretion. I don't have to have a reason. If changed, I could not trim back the employees due to lack of demand. This has only happened once, but it saved the company. In fact if this passes I will consider moving the company to other state.

56 Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance

A weak no on this one.

All companies should provide health care to all employees. However.. it shouldn't be mandated by the state. I offer all my W2 employees full employer paid health care. I do not require anyone to pay any portion. Very few companies do this, I do it out of choice. Every company should be able to chose to offer this benefit or not.

57 Additional Remedies for Injured Employees

An average NO

Seems like this is covered under workmans comp insurance. I'm not sure of the purpose of this amendment, and I can't seem to find information on it other than what I've linked to. On the face it seems to want to allow workers to sue employers if they collect workmans comp.

This type of ad is not the way I would have tried to get the word out to vote no against these amendments. But it worked, kinda, I almost didn't bother reading up on these and mkight have voted YES, based on the terrible ad. The ad comes off sleezy, as if it's hiding something.

Illuminating Colorado Issues has an interesting write up on each Amendment.

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