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Maine DOL's $47,100 overtime floor: the 2027 classification audit for HR directors

Maine's salary threshold for overtime exemption rises from $45,300 to approximately $47,100 on January 1, 2027, triggering a classification decision for every salaried Maine employee whose pay falls between those two figures. For HR directors ...

Return to office costs workers $6,700 a year, analysis finds

A Resume.io analysis of 1,000 full-time US employees puts the annual cost of in-office work, branded the RTO tax, at approximately $6,736 per worker , equivalent to 9.3% of a typical salary . For HR directors finalizing 2027 headcount budgets, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting January 1, 2027, Washington State's minimum wage climbs from (United States)

Starting January 1, 2027, Washington State's minimum wage climbs from $17.13 to $17.73 an hour , a 3.5% increase that the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) confirmed on September 30, 2026. The 60-cent jump, described by ...

10/05/2026

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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

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

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