Económico

California's 11-city wage floor: what your July paycheck must show

If you work hourly shifts in one of eleven California cities, your pay floor went up on July 1, 2026. The increases vary by city, but across a full-time month the dollars add up fast, and they change the math on whether a job offer across town is ...

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Kentucky's $25 minimum wage debate and what it signals for HR

Senator Chris Murphy's Living Wage for All Act puts a single number on the table: $25 an hour as the new federal minimum wage . For Kentucky, where state law ties the wage floor directly to the federal rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act ...

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1,000 workers replaced by 50 robots: what it means for jobs

One factory. One thousand workers out. Fifty robots in. According to Futurism, a major union expressed anger after that swap went through at a single manufacturing site, a 20-to-1 replacement ratio that lands differently depending on which side ...

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Oregon BOLI's July 1 wage tiers: what your paycheck should show now

Oregon's minimum wage went up on July 1, and if you work an hourly job anywhere in the state, your pay stub now reflects a number that didn't exist last month. The standard tier rose by 50 cents, and the Portland metro and nonurban tiers moved ...

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The numbers have finally caught up with the anxiety: United States reward implications

The numbers have finally caught up with the anxiety. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, AI has been cited as the leading reason for U.S. layoffs for four consecutive months running through June 2026, and the technology sector accounts ...

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San Francisco's $19.61 FLSA gap: a worker and HR guide to the July 2026 wage floor

San Francisco's hourly minimum wage moved to $19.61 on July 1, 2026, under the city's Minimum Wage Ordinance, making it one of the highest municipal wage floors in the country. For a full-time worker clocking 40 hours a week, that works out to ...

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Pennsylvania's FLSA floor at $7.25: what the Senate vote means for workers and HR teams

Pennsylvania's minimum wage sits at $7.25 an hour, tied to the federal floor set by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 2009 and never moved since. Cross the Delaware River into New Jersey and the legal minimum is $15.49. Cross into Delaware ...

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More than 90% of organizations have deployed AI in talent acquisition (United States)

More than 90% of organizations have deployed AI in talent acquisition, yet fewer than 5% report transformational outcomes. That is the headline finding of a study titled "The New Talent Equation: Building Better Talent Decisions," commissioned by ...

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