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• Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs recently signed Executive Order 2025-09 to enhance worker safety amid rising summer temperatures.
• The Industrial Commission of Arizona’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will establish a Workplace Heat Safety Task Force to draft

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• Unlike England, Scotland, and Wales, Northern Ireland’s employment law is devolved, meaning the existing United Kingdom gender pay gap reporting requirements for employers with 250 employees or more do not extend to Northern Ireland.
• In February 2025, the

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• The UK government has published a white paper which proposes significant changes to the immigration rules, including a 32 percent increase in the Immigration Skills Charge.
• The proposed changes include extending the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to

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• On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court order that had temporarily halted the rescission of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program, allowing the administration to

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• Washington’s Public Records Act has been amended to expand the list of items that must be redacted from public workplace investigative records.
• The amended provision, effective July 27, 2025, also requires that voices in audio recordings be altered

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• On June 2, 2025, Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling announced the DOL’s renewed commitment to issuing opinion letters to provide clear and authoritative guidance on federal labor laws.
• The DOL aims to enhance transparency and legal certainty

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