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      Brian Nugent wins PEO unemployment case of first impression

                              in the Colorado Supreme Court

On February 27, 2012, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision that the Colorado Division of Employment and Training could not combine unemployment insurance accounts for five commonly-owned PEO entities.  Read the decision here.

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