Editorial

10/28/2026

Public Holidays in the United States 2027: Official Dates and Long Weekends

The 2027 federal holiday calendar delivers a small but real bonus for workers on a standard Monday-to-Friday schedule. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which publishes the official federal holiday schedule under 5 U.S.C. 6103, ...

09/28/2026

7 min

US rewrites collective bargaining rules for strike-prone sectors

If you work at a US port, on the freight railroads, or for a commercial airline, the legal framework that governs your next contract dispute looks very different from what your Canadian counterparts are navigating right now. Canada's new Bill ...

09/22/2026

6 min

Maine's indexed wage floor hits $15.70: the FLSA framework and Q4 payroll audit

Maine's minimum wage is heading to $15.70 per hour on January 1, 2027, up from $15.10 in 2026. The Maine Department of Labor confirmed the adjustment in a September 18, 2026 press release, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as ...

09/17/2026

6 min

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring (United States)

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring on the surface: initial jobless claims for the week ended September 5, 2026, fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 206,000, and the four-week moving average settled at the ...

09/16/2026

7 min

The $100,000 H-1B tax and what it means for HR

Between the September 2025 presidential proclamation and 15 February 2026, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recorded fees for just 85 qualifying H-1B applications. In the same window a year earlier, the agency was processing ...

09/16/2026

5 min

Arizona's indexed wage floor: what the 2027 FLSA gap means for HR planning

On 1 January 2027, Arizona's statewide minimum wage moves from $15.15 to $15.65 an hour, the product of a 3.4% August-over-August CPI reading applied through the state's inflation-indexing statute, Proposition 206 (the Fair Wages and Healthy ...

09/08/2026

6 min

US layoffs hit 4-year low in August as AI blame fades

Layoff announcements just hit their lowest August level in four years, and on paper that looks like welcome news. In practice, if you have been submitting applications since June and getting mostly auto-rejections, the headline number is ...

09/08/2026

6 min

DHS targets H-1B grace period: what CHROs need to model now

A Department of Homeland Security proposal now under White House review would eliminate the 60-day grace period that currently gives H-1B and other nonimmigrant workers a structured runway after employment ends. The proposed rule was submitted ...

09/08/2026

6 min

H-1B spouses set to lose US work permits under new DHS rule

If you hold an H-4 Employment Authorization Document (EAD), or your partner does, the regulatory news out of Washington has been hard to sit with. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has placed on its 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda a ...

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 ...

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