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09/16/2026

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 ...

09/16/2026

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 ...

09/08/2026

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 ...

08/25/2026

13 min

Why people are searching for Claude watermark removers, and what it means for hiring

An invisible change to AI-generated text produced a very visible reaction: people started looking for ways to strip it out. In August 2026, Anthropic confirmed that text generated by Claude would carry a watermark. The announcement drew ...

08/25/2026

6 min

One in three American workers has quietly moved their retirement target (United States)

One in three American workers has quietly moved their retirement target further into the future, and the math behind that shift is straightforward: housing, healthcare, debt, and family obligations are consuming the dollars that would otherwise ...

08/25/2026

6 min

Women filled just 26% of AI hires in 2025: United States reward implications

Women filled just 26% of AI hires in 2025, while accounting for roughly half of all non-AI hires, according to LinkedIn research published this year. In a labor market where the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) consistently tracks widening wage ...

08/24/2026

6 min

University of Pittsburgh research: AI layoffs are not delivering for U.S. workers

Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. If you are job-hunting right now , or weighing an offer from a company that just made an AI-driven restructuring announcement, that ...

08/19/2026

5 min

A $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications has been blocked , United States reward angle

A $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications has been blocked by a federal court, and as of today it is not being collected. But the legal fight is not over, and the policy debate it sparked raises a harder question for anyone building a tech career ...

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