By Chris M. Mason, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. To continue our Arizona Restaurant Week series, below are tips to help Arizona restaurant employers comply with immigration laws to avoid costly fines and litigation: Tip 1: Employers should work with new hires to complete I-9 forms The burden rests…
By Chris M. Mason, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. To kick off Arizona Restaurant Week, below are tips to help Arizona restaurant employers comply with laws involving tipped employees and avoiding costly fines and litigation: Tip 1: Be Sure Tipped Employees Earn Minimum Wage Arizona and federal law permits…
By Daniel J.F. Peabody, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. A federal court in Arizona just gave Arizona employers some much-needed guidance for navigating Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA). In a case of first impression, the court held that individuals with medical marijuana cards can sue their employers under the…
By: Chris M. Mason Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. With another possible government shutdown looming, Arizona employers are understandably concerned with hiring new employees and handling E-verify requirements. Employers should quickly E-verify while they can. While both major political parties appear hopeful that they may have achieved an acceptable…
Labor and Employment Group Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. Effective as of September 18, 2017, employers must now use the new version of the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on July 17, 2017. The revised version of the Form I-9 includes…
By: Lindsay Leavitt Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. The Arizona hospitality industry needs to brace itself for another tidal wave of ADA litigation. ADA plaintiffs Fernando Gastelum and Theresa Brooke have recently filed nearly a dozen lawsuits alleging that the hotels’ online reservations policies violate the ADA. Mr. Gastelum…
ADA plaintiffs have often targeted the hotel industry and Theresa Brooke’s latest round of lawsuits is no different. This time, she is suing hotels over their online reservation policies. The Department of Justice issued regulations relating to hotel reservation policies that went into effect in March 2012. 28 CFR §…
By: Lindsay Leavitt Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. Serial plaintiff Theresa Brooke is back in Arizona filing more ADA accessibility lawsuits. Arizona hotel owners will remember that it was Theresa Brooke who, in 2015, opened the floodgates of accessibility lawsuits—she personally sued more than 100 hotels for failing to…
By: Otto S. Shill, III, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. Late last week, the Arizona Industrial Commission (the “Commission”) issued a Notice of Supplemental Proposed Rulemaking, adding proposed regulations that clarify several issues under Arizona’s new paid sick leave requirements. Below are summaries of the most significant proposed rules:…
By: Ottos S. Shill, III Arizona’s new voter-approved law, ARS Sec. 23-371 et. seq., gives virtually every employee in the State the right to 24 or 40 hours per year of paid sick leave (depending on the size of the employer). Employers have just under 30 days to prepare for…
