§ 1.1.13 LEGISLATORS VERSUS VOTERS.

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§ 1.1.13 Legislators Versus Voters. With the shift in Arizona voter registration and the change in voting patterns that has since the 1980s resulted in growing Republican majorities in the legislature, as of the 1990s there have been increasing legislative efforts to limit or reverse employee rights.256 Recent legislation has prohibited cities and towns from passing any enactment that rights to employees greater than exists in state law.257 These prohibitions preempt the efforts of cities and towns to pass their own minimum wage standards, to require private employers to provide leave and other employee fringe benefits, or to pass...

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