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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 […]

Phoenix, Arizona – Nine lawyers from Gust Rosenfeld P.L.C. were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Copyright 2007 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on […]

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 […]

Phoenix, Arizona – Barbara Rodriguez-Pashkowski has joined Gust Rosenfeld PLC as a Member (Partner) in our environmental practice group. Her practice focuses on environmental law and compliance, including due diligence, air quality permitting, asbestos, underground storage tanks, state Superfund, litigation, legislation, and environmental rule writing. Prior to joining Gust Rosenfeld, […]

The Arizona Board of Education has adopted new regulations that govern school district procurement of construction services using alternative project delivery methods, including construction-manager-at-risk, design-build, job-order contracting and qualified select bidders list methods. The new regulations provide school districts direction on the procurement and contracting of these alternative project deliver […]

Phoenix, Arizona – Gust Rosenfeld is proud to announce that eight of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 (Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, S.C.). The 2007 edition is the thirteenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Since its inception […]