New Jersey wrote its nursing-home and assisted-living pay floor as a gap, not a number: direct care staff in long-term care facilities must earn at least $3.00 an hour more than the state minimum wage. That is why the floor lifts by exactly as much as the general rate on January 1, 2027, rising 56…

A tipped server in Michigan paid the lowest cash wage allowed in 2026 earns $5.49 an hour from the employer and has to make up the other $8.24 in tips to reach the state floor of $13.73. On January 1, 2027, the cash wage steps up to $6.30 and the floor to $15.00, which leaves…

The clock behind a corporate layoff is measured in weeks, and the weeks are already running at Pep Boys. The auto-care chain has told Pennsylvania that 169 workers at its Bala Cynwyd corporate site will be separated, with the first separations falling on December 31, 2026, which is New Year’s Eve. The last falls on…

The address on the filing is 11955 Democracy Drive, Reston, Virginia 20190, and the notice type is written as a single word: Closure. Bechtel Power Corporation told the state that its Reston office will shut on November 16, 2026, and that 200 employees will lose their jobs when it does. The notice was filed on…

Owens & Minor is closing its Avid Medical plant in Toano, Virginia, and the state has the paperwork to prove it. The notice puts the closure’s impact date at November 25 and the number of affected employees at 419, all at one address. The filing arrived on September 16, leaving roughly ten weeks before paychecks…

Starbucks has told Washington regulators that 224 corporate and remote employees will lose their jobs, with the first separations expected on October 19, 2026 and every one of them complete by November 1. The count is a single figure from one layoff notice, covering two groups: 120 Seattle headquarters staff and 104 remote workers. Two…

A signature block of 110 names closes a September 15 letter to the four top leaders of Congress, and every name backs one request: do not let federal civilian employees go into January 2027 with a pay freeze. The document is a plea to the leadership, not a law, and no pay figure has been…

New York’s automatic inflation raise to the minimum wage is not coming this winter. The state Department of Labor has declared that a built-in safety valve in the 2023 wage law was tripped, which freezes the general rate where it stands today. Workers in the downstate counties stay at $17.00 an hour, and workers everywhere…

“We are investing more than $230 million in the year ahead,” said Jason Buechel, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Grocery Stores and the CEO of Whole Foods Market, calling it “one of the most significant investments in our more than 100,000 Whole Foods Market team members to date.” The $230 million is Amazon’s own number,…

New York’s general minimum wage will not move on January 1, 2027. The state Department of Labor says the usual inflation-based increase is off the table for the year, so the floor stays at $17.00 an hour in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County and at $16.00 an hour everywhere else in the…