Colorado's HFWA paid sick leave applies to every employer — regardless of size.
The Healthy Families and Workplaces Act requires every Colorado employer to provide paid sick leave. Workers accrue 1 hour per 30 worked, capped at 48 hours per year, with up to 48 unused hours carrying over annually. Effective February 2026, you must surface real-time balances to workers on request.
HFWA Sick Leave Balance & Carryover
Accrues 1 hour per 30 worked, caps annual usage at 48 hours, carries over unused balance up to 48 hours. Surfaces real-time balance in the worker app.
What the rule does as workers accrue and use HFWA leave.
The hero card configuration: Flag on every paystub. Here's what that does at runtime.
The worker's HFWA balance shows on every paystub: accrued this period, used year-to-date, available now. The 2026 recordkeeping rule requires this; Teambridge applies the standard automatically.
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1 hour per 30, capped at 48, no employer-size exception.
HFWA's accrual rule is straightforward; the bigger compliance burden is the breadth (every employer) and the use rules (you can't deny a qualifying request).
Universal applicability
HFWA applies to every Colorado employer. There is no employer-size exemption. A 1-employee business has the same obligation as a 10,000-employee business.
Accrual rate
1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. A 40-hour-per-week worker accrues 1.33 hours per week, hitting the 48-hour cap around mid-year.
Teambridge accrues, caps, carries over, and surfaces — without anyone tracking it.
HFWA compliance is mostly bookkeeping that humans get wrong. The accrual is automatic. The visibility is automatic. The denial guardrails (covered by the HFWA Approval Guardrails policy) are automatic.
1 hour earned per 30 worked.
Every time a worker clocks out, Teambridge accrues HFWA at the legal rate. Balance updates in real time, visible to both worker and manager.
Annual 48-hour cap, carryover preserved.
Workers stop accruing when balance reaches 48. At year-end, unused hours up to 48 carry over. The cap on usage stays at 48 per year, but available balance can be up to 96 (current year + carryover).
Balance shown in real time.
Worker can see their balance any time in the worker app, including a 12-month history of accrual and usage. The 2026 recordkeeping rule is satisfied without admin intervention.
Every paystub shows the balance.
Pay stubs include 'HFWA accrued this period,' 'used YTD,' 'available now' — fulfilling the disclosure requirement.
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