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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

Unpopular with the majority of Americans, it had proved too expensive to enforce.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

"Before you commit yourself on that point, just tell me who or what enforces obedience with a triangular knife?—Let her alone!"

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

Athena is not the only academy trust that has enforced strict discipline.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Advocates of private-school voucher programs argue against restrictions on how the schools operate and push back against the type of oversight enforced on public schools.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

These parents read the new constitutional guarantees of freedom for themselves, and demanded they be enforced, long before any Supreme Court told them what those words meant.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

The program is specific to the city of Santa Monica and will only be enforced within city limits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

At fifteen, I would have been sort of eligible to play, though no one really enforced the rules.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Nominally, Jeanine Pirro is the U.S. attorney for D.C., appointed by Donald Trump and tasked with enforcing the law in the nation’s capital.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, a Democrat, is aggressively enforcing the statute against recalcitrant communities in the state.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Even if legislation and associated technical standards were introduced, Richard Dilks acknowledges enforcing them would remain difficult.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson