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10/05/2026

Florida hits $15: BLS data and the 15-month freeze HR directors should act on now

Florida's minimum wage reached $15 an hour on September 30, 2026, completing the six-year phase-in voters approved under Amendment 2 in November 2020 with 60.8% of the vote. For HR directors across the state, the more consequential number is not ...

10/05/2026

6 min

H-1B crackdown targets US employers that lay off American workers

If your company sponsors H-1B workers and cut jobs in the past year, those two facts now sit in the same regulatory file. On September 18, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14431 on H-1B program integrity, directing federal agencies ...

10/05/2026

6 min

BLS JOLTS August data exposes a two-speed U.S. labor market

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for August landed below every major forecast: U.S. employers posted 7.079 million open positions at the end of August, a drop of 256,000 from July and well ...

09/28/2026

8 min

Nearly 1 in 5 workers say their job isn't what they were hired for

Nearly 18% of U.S. employees say the job they perform today is significantly different from, or completely unlike, the role they were hired to fill, according to a ResumeBuilder.com report released September 14. For HR directors and CHROs, that ...

09/25/2026

7 min

H-1B in 2026: the DOL prevailing-wage floor is not the finish line

The offer letter arrives and the number looks life-changing. Six figures in US dollars, a role at a name-brand tech company, and a path toward permanent residency that your family back in India has been watching closely for years. Then you open ...

09/16/2026

6 min

026 Oxfam ranking: US states with the strongest worker rights

Step across a state line and your hourly pay floor can jump by more than $11. That gap separates Washington DC's $18.40 minimum wage from the federal $7.25 floor set by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a floor that has not moved since July ...

09/08/2026

7 min

If you work in games, or you were planning to break in before 2027, the (United States)

If you work in games, or you were planning to break in before 2027, the top-line number is sobering: the industry could shed more than 14,000 roles by the end of 2026, according to figures published by ASGC founder Amir Satvat. But the more ...

09/08/2026

7 min

US hiring rebounds with 162,000 jobs added in August

August's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) payroll print offered a headline that looked solid on its face: US employers added 162,000 jobs, more than doubling the 65,000 that forecasters polled by FactSet had projected, and the unemployment rate ...

09/08/2026

8 min

DHS $103,265 H-1B fee: USCIS cost model HR directors must stress-test now

A $103,265 per-petition charge, payable upfront on every cap-subject H-1B filing, is now the number that belongs in every HR director's 2027 workforce cost model. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the proposed rule in the ...

09/07/2026

7 min

DOL jobless claims hit 203K, but BLS hiring data tells a harder story for job seekers

Initial jobless claims dropped to 203,000 for the week ending August 22, according to the Department of Labor (DOL), beating a consensus forecast of 209,000 and landing below the prior week's revised figure of 207,000. If you have been sending ...

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