Category: Paychecks & Work
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Virginia’s minimum wage climbs from $12.77 to $13.75 on January 1, and Michigan’s tipped cash wage rises to $6.30
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…
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Pep Boys told Pennsylvania it will cut 169 jobs at its Bala Cynwyd headquarters starting New Year’s Eve
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…
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Bechtel Power will close its Reston, Virginia office on November 16, ending 200 jobs
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…
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Owens & Minor will close its Avid Medical plant in Toano, Virginia on November 25, ending 419 jobs
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…
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Starbucks begins cutting 224 corporate and remote jobs on October 19
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…
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The EEOC sued Walmart and UPS over sign language interpreters for a deaf employee and a deaf applicant
Two of the country’s biggest employers are now defendants in federal disability suits brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and both turn on the same question: whether a deaf person was given a sign language interpreter. The suits were filed a day apart in the Eastern District of Virginia, one over a Walmart…
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110 lawmakers asked congressional leaders to cancel the January pay freeze for federal civilian employees
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…
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Maryland starts taking paid family leave contributions January 1, with no benefit until 2028
Wages paid on or after January 1, 2027 in Maryland will carry a new line on the pay stub: a contribution to the state’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance program, known as FAMLI. The worker’s share is 0.45 percent of wages, matched by the employer. The deduction arrives a full year before the first benefit,…
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New York’s minimum wage will not rise on January 1 after a statutory off-ramp was triggered, holding at $17.00 and $16.00
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…
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New Jersey farmworkers reach $15 an hour in January and the tipped cash wage goes to $6.61
For the first time, New Jersey’s minimum wage for agricultural workers will reach $15.00 an hour, and the cash wage an employer must pay a tipped worker rises to $6.61. Both changes take effect on January 1, 2027, and both come from the same annual adjustment. They sit on separate tracks, though, and one does…