Colorado Revised Statutes Title 24. Government State § 24-50-804. Development of recommendations for an employee incentive program

(a) Criteria for eligibility for the employee incentive program;

(b) A formula for calculating and distributing cost savings;

(c) Employee protections against retaliation for initiating or participating in an employee incentive program;

(d) A means of providing public recognition and financial compensation to employees whose innovations result in cost savings to the state;

(e) A method for the centralized or departmental administration of the employee incentive program; and

(f) A mechanism for returning an amount equal to fifty percent of the cost savings realized by any department as a result of an employee's cost-savings innovation to the Colorado taxpayers and for allowing the department in which the employee is employed to retain an amount equal to fifty percent of such cost savings.