Elevate HR

11/03/2026

AI layoffs backfire as firms rehire boomerang employees

In May 2026, employers named AI as the primary reason for almost 40% of announced job cuts , according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Six months on, a measurable share of those decisions is reversing. For CHROs and People & ...

11/03/2026

8 min

USCIS deference rollback turns every H-1B renewal into a fresh eligibility test

If you have held an H-1B visa for nine years, renewed your status three or four times, and built a career on the assumption that an unchanged situation carries forward the last approval, that assumption is now formally under threat. The US ...

11/03/2026

8 min

16 states lift pay floors on January 1: a multi-state HR compliance brief

The Economic Policy Institute's Minimum Wage Tracker counts 16 states set to raise their wage floors on January 1, 2027, while 20 states, including North Carolina, will remain at the federal floor of $7.25 an hour - a rate the Fair Labor ...

10/28/2026

9 min

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, ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Why tech firms are rehiring the workers they cut for AI

If you were laid off from a tech role in the past year and told that automation would absorb your work, the company that let you go may be circling back. A Wakefield Research survey conducted in August 2026 on behalf of GFT Technologies found ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Teikametrics CFO and BLS data reframe what accounting grads need in 2026

You just finished your accounting degree, passed a professional exam or two, and you're sending out applications for your first junior role. Then you read a job description and realize that much of the work you expected to do during those early ...

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 ...

09/22/2026

7 min

Alameda County's $30 wage floor: California workers face an 11-year wait

Alameda County has handed its lowest-paid workers a promise attached to a very long fuse. The Board of Supervisors voted to place a $30 minimum wage measure on a future ballot, but the implementation timeline stretches more than a decade: large ...

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 ...

09/18/2026

5 min

Three weeks after hitting submit on that application: United States reward implications

Three weeks after hitting submit on that application, the job posting is still up and your inbox is empty. According to ManpowerGroup's Employment Outlook Survey released September 8, 2026, that wait is not a fluke, and the AI screening software ...

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