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In California, unused vacation hours are considered wages and, while employers can’t enforce a “use it or lose it” policy, they can set caps on how much vacation an employee is allowed to accrue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The agency said its officers are trained to enforce immigration laws while protecting public safety and complying with federal law.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

"If someone gets an award at an employment tribunal then there are systems in place to help them enforce it if necessary," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

On Wednesday, regulators were obliged to enforce the circuit breaker, suspending all trading temporarily, for the second consecutive day and the tenth time this year.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The powerlessness of dictionaries to enforce the prescriptivists’ dream of preventing linguistic change does not mean that the dictionaries are doomed to preside over a race to the bottom.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

For more than a decade, aircraft entering Yemeni airspace have needed prior clearance from the Saudi-led coalition that backs the government and says it enforces the restriction at its request.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Aronowitz, as head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Department of Labor office that enforces ERISA, is responsible for following through.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

The FTC today enforces some 80 statutes that cover “almost every facet of the Nation’s economy, and the tasks it undertakes are ‘the very essence of “execution” of the law,’” the Chief writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

U.S. law generally enforces a quiet period for 40 days after the IPO during which time the company and any of the underwriters are prohibited from any communications on the stock.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

The sewage of our towns must be cleaned of its deleterious parts before being run into the streams which give drink to the lower animals, because an Act of Parliament enforces the process.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by M'Pherson, J. G.

In the workshop, I enforced another rule: Clean up every day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Inevitably, though, order would be enforced, and Piker would once again be painted as the enemy.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Beijing warned leading automakers that safety rules would be more tightly enforced after a fatal crash in 2025 involving a Xiaomi car in assisted driving mode.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Lewis says there is more focus on the Lake District at busy times, but not all bad parking can be enforced by the council.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Over the years, some English teachers have enforced the notion that conjunctions like and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to join one sentence with another.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis said the department is “simply enforcing our nation’s laws and established policy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Saree added that the Houthis promised to continue their naval operations and would continue "enforcing the 'siege for a siege' equation".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“We are simplifying the organization, strengthening leadership, enforcing accountability and aligning our structure with the priorities that matter most: customers, quality, and innovation,” Napoli said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Canada and the UAE are among other countries that have announced similar bans, while Indonesia began enforcing its ban for users under 16 in March.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

There have always been laws against killing or selling bonobos in Congo, but the government had trouble enforcing them before because there was nowhere to place confiscated infants.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer