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August 18, 2026

If you employ people across state lines, paid sick leave is one of the hardest benefits to standardize. Rules and regulations are set state by state and, in several states, by city. An employee in …

July 27, 2026 · updated August 11, 2026

Washington has had a version of this law since 2018, when it passed a "ban-the-box" statute: the national shorthand for laws that remove the criminal-history checkbox from job applications and dela…

July 16, 2026 · updated July 21, 2026

If you have employees in more than one state, you're subscribed to a dozen legislatures you never voted for. Here's an honest map of every method HR teams actually use to keep up — free government …

July 13, 2026 · updated July 19, 2026

Five of the six states we track require pay disclosure — and no two of them require the same thing. One wants an application deadline in every posting. One lets "testers" sue over a bad posting. On…

July 5, 2026 · updated July 7, 2026

Mid-year effective dates are where multi-state employers get caught. Here's what took effect on July 1, 2026 across the states we track — verified against primary sources — plus a list of changes t…

March 1, 2026 · updated June 18, 2026

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