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A bit more on the background of labor law in the state of Arizona and in the country as a whole. Remember, we explained before how in the 1990s—1996 to be exact—Congress passed a law to try to help government officials catch people breaking labor laws regarding unemployment benefits as well as people breaking the law on child support payments.

That congressional law was called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The idea behind the labor law was that an efficient way for human resource departments to report new hires would make it easier to keep track of child support payments, to make it easier to get payments from adults who change jobs frequently, and to locate those parents who are trying to avoid the payments.

For these ends, the labor law as the Arizona state developed it makes it the responsibility of all employers and all labor organizations operating in the state to report new employees, old employees who are rehired, and all temporary employees.

As defined, new employees can even include folks who you hire and then fire within the first day (and I’ve seen some of those, trust me). All that matters is that the employees live and or work in Arizona, and that you had intended to pay them wages.

Any worker who you have fired, laid off, furloughed, given a leave of absence to, or in any way shape or form let go, but then hired back, counts as a re-hire. This can count even if the employee stayed on your books while they were gone, so teachers, seasonal workers, and even sub teachers count in this category.

Temporary workers kind of fall in the middle ground between the first two categories when it comes to the labor law on new hire reporting. For temp workers, you only need to report them once—not every time they come to work for you.

Contacting and working with the Arizona (AZ) Department of Human Resources can allow for many benefits to those that are within the state. Yet, while most of us tune into the news each day to hear about how the country is doing, not many will tune in to learn how the state itself is doing. What’s more is that they can be on two completely different tracks in many ways. Nevertheless, those that are interested in learning how the state is doing in comparison to other states in the nation, there are some ways to do so using the Arizona Human Resource Department.

For example, a gauge of the economy within our state is difficult to do. Yet, the Department of Labor regularly puts together this information. One thing that they do is provide for the unemployment rate for the state. Using figures in relation to how many people within the state have applied for or are receiving unemployment, they tell use that the rate for the state is that of 4.4 percent as of July of 2006. While that rate may seem a bit high, it is actually below the national average unemployment rate which is set at 4.8 percent. The Arizona Department of Human Resources provides this information as a way for us to see how well our state is doing in comparison to others.

There is much more to what the department does as well. For many, the most important factor is the help that it provides for business owners in the way of workmen’s compensation and laws protecting the employee and the employer. In addition, they provide for job training even apprenticeships through various state sponsored programs. The Arizona Department of Human Resources also provides for the necessary laws that govern minimum wage and child labor laws within the state. It is by far an important governmental agency that we all need to know about.