Labor Law Poster Spotlight: Important New Posters from California, Colorado, and Illinois

In this monthly series, the GovDocs Employment Law and Compliance Team highlights three recent labor law poster releases that employers need to know about.   

California’s Healthy Family Acts Poster

The Healthy Family Acts poster, which provides employees information on California’s paid sick leave entitlements, paid sick leave usage, and employee protections, updated due to two recently enacted bills.  

Back in 2024, Governor Newsom signed AB 2499, expanding the definition of “victim” to include individuals impacted by a “qualifying act of violence” and allowing them to use paid sick leave to attend related judicial proceedings. Then in 2025, AB 406 was enacted, clarifying the permissible reasons employees may use paid sick leave. As a result, the Healthy Family Acts Poster updated its paid sick leave usage section with a new table outlining the following: 

The Healthy Families Act poster is required for all employers, except for those covered by collective bargaining agreements, providers of in-home supportive services, or individuals employed by an air carrier as a flight deck or cabin crew member subject to the Federal Railway Labor Act.  

Both the GovDocs Update Program and Spanish Update Program customers will receive updated posters for their California locations.      

Colorado’s Minimum Wage Poster

The Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards (COMPS) Order is the state’s minimum wage poster. The poster is updated annually to include any minimum wage increases at the state level.  

Accordingly, Colorado updated the poster with a minimum wage increase to $15.16 per hour, effective Jan. 1, 2026. In addition, the poster updated the exempt salary threshold for executive, administrative, and professional employees to $57,784, effective Jan. 1, 2026.  

Colorado’s minimum wage poster is required for all employers. The GovDocs Standard Update Program is currently shipping updated Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards (COMPS) Order posters to impacted customer locations in the state.  

Illinois Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) Poster

The Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) provides eligible employees the right to take up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave within a twelve month period when they or their family/household members have experienced domestic violence, sexual violence, gender-related violence, or other crimes of violence.  

The state’s VESSA poster has been updated to expand the information provided in the Accommodations and Discrimination and Retaliation sections. In the Accommodations section, the poster now states that employees have “the right to access any digital documents or communications stored on an employer-issued device relating to domestic, sexual, or gender violence, or any other crime of violence.” 

In the Discrimination and Retaliation section, it now clarifies that VESSA prohibits employers from discriminating, retaliating, or otherwise treating an employee or job applicant unfavorably if the individual involved “used employer-issued equipment to record domestic, sexual, or gender violence, or any other crime of violence committed against them or a family or household member.” 

VESSA provisions require all employers in the state to display the VESSA poster in the workplace. GovDocs is shipping the updated poster out to impacted customers in Illinois, and the poster will also be included in the GovDocs Intranet Poster Program.