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A recent decision by Facebook to allow members to assign a vanity URL to their profile pages could prove problematic for trademark owners around the world. That’s why you’ll want to take steps to prevent Facebook users from hijacking your trademark. Read on to learn more. (Just in case you […]

Effective August 1, 2009, businesses and organizations with consumer or other accounts at risk for identity theft must develop and implement an Identity Theft Prevention Program. They also need to heed identity theft “red flags.” Who Must Comply Covered entities include banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, any business […]

Recent amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) significantly increases employers’ obligations. It not only increases the number of individuals covered but also increases the types of impairments protected. The amendments specifically reverse two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that narrowed ADA coverage. Congress criticized the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]

However true the saying, A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, it offers little consolation to a business that has spent large sums of money and time to promote its company name or product names only to have to later change them as a result of a trademark infringement […]

Our legislature recently made important changes to the employer sanctions statutes (HB 2745) for employees hired after December 31, 2007. Unauthorized Aliens Employers that knowingly or intentionally hire, directly or indirectly, unauthorized aliens are subject to liability. Penalties include: terminating all unauthorized aliens, employer probation and terminating business licenses. Economic […]

Sample Contract Insert Containing Arizona’s New Employer Sanctions Provisions: E-verify requirements. To the extent applicable under ARIZ. REV. STAT. § 41-4401, the Contractor and its subcontractors warrant compliance with all federal immigration laws and regulations that relate to their employees and compliance with the E-verify requirements under ARIZ. REV. STAT. […]

Effective January 1, 2008, Arizona’s minimum wage will increase from $6.75/hour to $6.90/hour. Importantly, Arizona employers must pay Arizona’s rate, which is $1.05 higher than the Federal rate. Tipped employees will also benefit with an increase to at least $3.90 per hour. These increases result from the November 2006 Arizona […]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a new I-9 form (employment eligibility verification) that must be completed when hiring new employees. Various documents have been removed and/or added to the lists of acceptable documents to be provided by employees to prove their identity and eligibility to work in the […]

Effective September 19, 2007, all subcommittees, advisory boards or commissions of a public body will be required to keep minutes under a recently adopted amendment to Arizona’s Open Meeting Law. Such subcommittees and advisory boards will now be required to make available to the public the minutes of a meeting, […]

Arizona employers will have to contend with two new employment mandates this Fall and at the start of 2008. New Federal Homeland Security requirements, effective September 12, 2007, apply to Social Security Administration no-match letters. On January 1, 2008, a new state law becomes effective prohibiting the hiring of unauthorized […]