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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 ...

09/16/2026

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 ...

09/16/2026

8 min

Florida's $15 floor and the FLSA shift every employer must plan for

Florida's six-year march to a $15 hourly minimum wage reaches its final step on September 30, 2026 - the last scheduled increase written into the state constitution when voters passed Amendment 2 in November 2020. Starting in 2027, the wage floor ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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