In Colorado, some of the legal rights of workers are: Age discrimination is covered by a federal statute under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and by state law. Like federal law, Colorado labor laws protect break periods for employees . An official website of the United States government. The following deviations from the standard break rules include: If an employer does not allow an employee to take a required break period, the employees shift is effectively extended 10 minutes of work without compensation and the employer would be required to pay that employee for that time at the parties agreed-upon or legally required rate. /*-->