Mercado laboral

25/09/2026

H-1B in 2026: the DOL prevailing-wage floor is not the finish line

The offer letter arrives and the number looks life-changing. Six figures in US dollars, a role at a name-brand tech company, and a path toward permanent residency that your family back in India has been watching closely for years. Then you open ...

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22/09/2026

5 min

DOL jobless claims hit a 55-year low, but the hiring door is narrowing

The Department of Labor's (DOL) latest jobless claims report carries two very different stories depending on where you sit in the labor market right now. If you're employed and not planning to move, the numbers are genuinely reassuring. If you're ...

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22/09/2026

8 min

AI interview notes create legal risk for US recruiters

You log into the video call, adjust your camera, and the recruiter smiles and kicks off the meeting. What nobody mentions is the AI notetaker that joined a few seconds later. It is already recording. It is already transcribing. And before the ...

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22/09/2026

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 ...

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22/09/2026

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 ...

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18/09/2026

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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17/09/2026

6 min

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring (United States)

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring on the surface: initial jobless claims for the week ended September 5, 2026, fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 206,000, and the four-week moving average settled at the ...

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16/09/2026

6 min

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 ...

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16/09/2026

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 ...

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16/09/2026

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 ...

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