Colorado expands whistleblower protections beyond complaints related to public health emergencies to complaints regarding health and safety concerns

Previously during the pandemic, Colorado passed a whistleblower law that protected complaints in the workplace regarding a public health emergency. By way of SB 22-097, Colorado expanded that protection to “any reasonable concern about workplace violations of government health or safety rules, or about an otherwise significant workplace threat to health or safety” that is raised in “good faith.”