Court: Arizona law doesn’t make real estate agents employees
A new court ruling says Arizona laws and regulations don’t make real estate salespeople employees of their brokers so brokers aren’t necessarily legally responsible for some work-related activities of their... […]
Senate advances minimum wage ballot measure
Republican lawmakers agreed Thursday to ask voters to increase the state's minimum wage -- but in a way that businesses actually want.
Ducey leans toward supporting minimum wage ballot measure
Gov. Doug Ducey now finds himself in the position where he is leaning toward supporting a ballot measure that actually would boost the state minimum wage even higher than it is now.
Congress must pass the Employees Rights Act
Arizona’s economic success in recent years can be attributed to our pro-business environment, fiscal conservatism and common sense approach to government regulation. But it is Arizona employees that make and keep businesses strong. Their skills and productivity are the foundation success is built upon.
Legislators to cities: no corporate sick leave requirements
Unable to block local “living wage” laws, state senators voted on April 5 to stop local governments from telling employers they have to provide everything from paid sick leave to pensions.
Legislators pursue minimum wage hike to counter ‘insane socialism’
Arizona lawmakers want voters to strip counties, cities and towns of the ability to set their own minimum wage and their explicit right to adopt employee benefits of their own liking.
Revised pay bill would exclude sick leave, health insurance, maternity leave
State lawmakers are moving to undermine the ability of cities to require employers to provide things like sick leave to local workers. And they're doing it in a back-door way.
Mandatory E-Verify law rarely enforced in state
Arizona’s 2008 law mandating that all employers use the federal E-Verify system has fallen through the cracks on every level of enforcement, raising questions as to whether the system can be successfully implemented nationwide, as several Republican presidential candidates suggest.