C.R.S. Section 8-70-141
Wages

  • definition

(1)

“Wages” means:

(a)

All remuneration for personal services, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, other than remuneration paid in other than cash to an agricultural worker or a domestic worker. When an employing unit during a calendar year acquires the experience of an employer as provided in section 8-76-104 and if, immediately after such acquisition, the successor employer continues to employ an individual who immediately prior to the acquisition was an employee of the predecessor, any remuneration previously paid to the individual by the predecessor shall be considered as having been paid by the successor.

(b)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(I)

Repealed.

(II)

Any amount treated as an employer contribution under 26 U.S.C. sec. 414 (h)(2); and

(III)

Any employer contribution under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan. For the purposes of this subparagraph (III), “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” means any plan or other arrangement for deferral of compensation other than a plan described in section 8-70-142 (1)(c). Any amount deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan shall be taken into account for the purposes of this paragraph (b) as of the date that the services are performed or the date that there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such amount, whichever date is later, and shall not thereafter be treated as “wages” for the purposes of this section.

(IV)

Any payment included in the definition of wages in the “Federal Unemployment Tax Act”.

(c)

Tips which are received while performing services that constitute employment and which are made known to the employer through a written statement furnished to him by the employee; and

(d)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(I)

With respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after January 1, 1978, wages for insured work paid for previously uncovered services. For the purposes of this paragraph (d), “previously uncovered services” means services which were not employment as defined in sections 8-70-126 to 8-70-140.8 and were not services covered pursuant to section 8-76-107 at any time during the one-year period ending December 31, 1975, and:

(A)

Which are agricultural labor as defined in section 8-70-103 or domestic service as defined in section 8-70-121; or

(B)

Which are services performed by an employee of this state or a political subdivision thereof, as provided for in section 8-70-119, or by an employee of a nonprofit educational institution which is not an institution of higher education, as provided for in section 8-70-103 (15).

(II)

“Previously uncovered services” shall not apply to services to the extent that assistance under Title II of the “Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974” was paid on the basis of such services.

Source: Section 8-70-141 — Wages - definition, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-08.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

8‑70‑101
Short title
8‑70‑102
Legislative declaration
8‑70‑103
Definitions
8‑70‑105
Banks as instrumentalities of United States
8‑70‑106
No vested rights or immunities
8‑70‑107
Disposition of funds in event of unconstitutionality
8‑70‑108
Conformity with federal statutes
8‑70‑109
Agricultural labor
8‑70‑110
Benefits - classifications
8‑70‑111
Benefit year - definitions
8‑70‑112
Claims - classifications
8‑70‑113
Employer - definition
8‑70‑114
Employing unit - definitions - rules - employee leasing company certification fund
8‑70‑115
Employment - federal unemployment tax act
8‑70‑116
Employment - location of services
8‑70‑117
Employment - base of operations
8‑70‑118
Employment - nonprofit organizations
8‑70‑119
Employment - hospitals - institutions of higher education
8‑70‑120
Employment - agricultural labor
8‑70‑121
Employment - domestic services
8‑70‑122
Employment - American employer
8‑70‑123
Employment - vessels - aircraft
8‑70‑124
Employment - credit - state unemployment fund
8‑70‑125
Employment - educational institutions
8‑70‑125.5
Employment - Indian tribes
8‑70‑125.7
Employment - property tax work-off program participants
8‑70‑126
Employment does not include - agricultural labor
8‑70‑127
Employment does not include - domestic service
8‑70‑128
Employment does not include - employer’s trade or business
8‑70‑129
Employment does not include - spouse - minor
8‑70‑130
Employment does not include - instrumentalities of United States
8‑70‑131
Employment does not include - school - college - university
8‑70‑132
Employment does not include - educational institution
8‑70‑133
Employment does not include - hospital
8‑70‑134
Employment does not include - unemployment compensation system
8‑70‑135
Employment does not include - paper routes
8‑70‑136
Employment does not include - brokers
8‑70‑137
Employment does not include - organization exempt from income tax
8‑70‑139
Employment does not include - insurance agents
8‑70‑140
Employment does not include - nonprofit organizations - governmental entities - Indian tribes
8‑70‑140.1
Employment does not include - foreign government service
8‑70‑140.2
Employment does not include - nonresident alien service
8‑70‑140.5
Employment does not include - drivers of taxis or limousines
8‑70‑140.6
Employment does not include - nonprofit youth sports organization coach - definitions
8‑70‑140.7
Employment does not include - land professionals
8‑70‑140.8
Employment does not include - owners
8‑70‑141
Wages - definition
8‑70‑142
Wages - remuneration not included as wages
8‑70‑143
Applicability of legislation
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 8-70-141’s source at colorado​.gov