Employment Law, Business Litigation & Personal Injury Legal Updates

A grouchy boss, an unpleasant work environment, a rude coworker, low pay across the board or in comparison to colleagues, below norm benefits, long hours, unfair promotions, unequal training, demeaning comments, each alone or all together do not necessarily support a...

Arizona recently passed legislation strengthening the state's data breach notification law. Highlights from the new state law include: Expanding the definition of protected “personal information” to include online account credentials, as well as an individual’s name...

Most non-government workplaces in Arizona must comply not only with Federal laws relating to discrimination, harassment and family medical leaves of absence, but also with Arizona and Municipal laws on those same subjects.  Following is a brief discussion of various...

As we previously advised, effective July 1, 2017, Arizona employers were required to begin allowing their employees to accrue paid sick leave (“PSL”) under the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act, Arizona’s new paid sick leave law. The Basics ALL...

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion relating to exemptions from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.  The decision relates not to the most commonly relied upon exemptions to the overtime rule -- the executive, administrative,...

On August 31, 2017, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the highly controversial Obama-administration ruling that would have significantly expanded eligibility for overtime pay which originally was slated to take effect December 1, 2016. The...

As set forth in our prior articles, the new Arizona law, Proposition 206, requires employers post a notice in the workplace describing employees’ rights under the Act.  We recommend the policy also be set forth in employee handbooks. Employers should take action now...

Proposition 206, the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (“the Act”), which incrementally increases minimum wage over the next several years became effective January 1, 2017, raising the state’s minimum wage from $8.05 per hour to $10.00 per hour. The Act also...

The Industrial Commission of Arizona recently published an unofficial guide to Proposition 206 (the Fair Wages and Health Families Initiative mandating increased minimum wage pay and mandatory protected sick leave for employees), entitled “Frequently Asked Questions,”...

All U.S. employers must complete a Form I-9 for every newly hired employee, verifying their eligibility to work in this country. The current Form I-9 has been in use since March 2013, and since that date numerous rules relating to proper completion of it have exposed...

Background: The Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) sets a minimum wage for most employees in the United States (with states having the right to increase it). The FLSA also requires that overtime be paid to employees when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. As...

A solid majority of Arizonans who voted in the November election favored Proposition 206, and as a result, approximately 800,000 minimum wage earners in our state will get a raise on January 1, 2017, and they, along with hundreds of thousands of other Arizona...

Background: The Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) contains rules regarding overtime, including which job positions are non-exempt versus exempt, and it dictates that employees in non-exempt job positions receive overtime pay. In contrast, the FLSA does not require...

Background: Almost every workplace and almost every employee in the United States is covered by a U.S. law named the Fair Labor Standards Act, the FLSA for short.  The FLSA, in partnership with laws passed in each state, sets a minimum hourly rate that must be paid...

For many years, a majority of non-government employers, and federal contractors and subcontractors, have had to complete an Employer Information Report (EEO-1) annually, charting the number of their employees by gender, by race and by ethnicity in each job category...