Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed legislation Monday that would have set strict time limits on when fired workers could sue their former employers for wrongful termination.

Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed legislation Monday that would have set strict time limits on when fired workers could sue their former employers for wrongful termination.

WASHINGTON - For eight years, Joy Vizi, a nurse practitioner at a suburban orthopedics treatment center, had worked under an oral employment contract, but she signed a written work agreement in April 2002 that said she could be fired for such specific reasons as being disciplined by a professional organization, committing a crime or being grossly negligent at work.

If Proposition 203 passes in Arizona, employers can say goodbye to the drug-free work place, and hello to employment for life.

The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce is holding an informational breakfast with speeches by legal and employment specialists to help members of the business community understand the impact of the Fair and Legal Employment Act, which takes effect statewide Jan. 1, said Tom Dorn of the Dorn Policy Group, the forum’s moderator.

Blog warnings: A blog — your personal Web page journal — is a fairly new way of keeping a record of your activities, expressing your innermost thoughts and exchanging information with your cyberspace readers.

The rhetoric from Washington about “immigration reform” has stopped — for now. Tempers have cooled from their peak of last spring and summer.

Arizona's new medical marijuana law is going to create new problems for employers trying to promote a safe workplace while respecting the new rights of those who will be able to legally inhale the drug.

Arizona's new medical marijuana law is going to create new problems for employers trying to promote a safe workplace while respecting the new rights of those who will be able to legally inhale the drug.

Arizona's new medical marijuana law is going to create new problems for employers trying to promote a safe workplace while respecting the new rights of those who will be able to legally inhale the drug.

Arizona's new medical marijuana law is going to create new problems for employers trying to promote a safe workplace while respecting the new rights of those who will be able to legally inhale the drug.

Members of Scottsdale’s business community got a look Friday at a new state law aimed at preventing employers from hiring illegal immigrants that some called a “business death penalty.”

Arizona can punish employers who are found guilty of knowingly hiring undocumented workers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit this week alleging age discrimination at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix.

All four security checkpoints at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport’s largest terminal were shut down briefly Wednesday night when federal screeners lost sight of a man who had been flagged for a secondary check.

Job loss is one of the most stressful situations a person can go through. But there are steps to take to assure you’ll get back on track.

By 2014, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in the eyes of many civic and business leaders will look much different. The airport celebrated 15 years of service with a luncheon Monday that marked many of its milestones and the hard work of past leaders, while directing an eye toward the future.

Although many East Valley residents, especially those living in north Tempe and south Scottsdale, would like to see the growth of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport come to a screeching halt, that wish is unrealistic. As the Valley’s population continues to mushroom, so will the volume of air traffic at Sky Harbor.

As Washington debates the various methods of simulating economic growth and job creation including new “investments” to kick start the economy, current investments must not be forgotten or terminated. One such investment, that is especially important to Arizona, is the F-35 program. In one word, the F-35 means JOBS.

Berge Ford has paid $70,000 to a Mesa woman and agreed to provide employees with more training in pregnancy discrimination to settle a federal lawsuit, the Phoenix office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.

A House panel voted Wednesday to require those seeking unemployment benefits to prove that they were fired and did not just quit.

East Valley Diagnostic Imaging will pay $150,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Mesa will offer its own money to advance construction of the Route 802 freeway by four years, allowing work to begin in 2012. The new timeline could shave roughly $39 million of the freeway’s cost.

Jeff Fisher, a former high-ranking Scottsdale employee who said he was suddenly fired last year for blowing the whistle on a firefighter-owned nightclub that had potential safety violations, has reached a settlement allowing him to resign.