Wisconsin Proposes $15 Minimum Wage
Late last month, lawmakers at the Wisconsin State Capitol proposed to raise the state鈥檚 minimum wage to US$15 per hour with a scheduled path to...
Fortify Aligns Insurcomm Restoration and Rytech Restoration
Fortify Cos. today expanded its national catastrophic large loss response capabilities across the Fortify network, aligning Insurcomm Restoration's large loss disaster team with Rytech Restoration's...
BluSky Restoration Contractors Appoints Drew Nannis as Chief Revenue Officer
BluSky Restoration Contractors LLC appointed of Drew Nannis chief revenue officer. This strategic addition to BluSky鈥檚 executive team underscores the company鈥檚 commitment to driving its...
Labor Department Rescinds Independent Contractor Rule
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor鈥檚聽Wage and Hour Division proposed a new rule聽to help workers and employers better understand when a worker is an...
Half of States Need $30 an Hour Wage to Live
U.S. families residing in half the nation must earn US$30 an hour, or roughly $53,000 per year聽after taxes, to live, according to聽analysis聽from finance app platform聽MoneyLion....
JUNKCO+ Earns 2026 Best Emerging Franchise Award
BELFOR Franchise Group, a leading global residential and commercial services franchisor, announced that JUNKCO+聽has been named the 2026 Single Market Award winner for Best Emerging...
Most Workers Are ‘Hugging’ Their Jobs
A new ResumeBuilder.com survey showed a sharp increase in 鈥渏ob hugging,鈥 a phenomenon in which employees stay in their current roles out of fear rather...
What is Sinking Customer Experience?
Most (43%) of U.S. employees strongly agreed they feel great responsibility for the customer experience, according to a Gallup study from the third quarter of...
Minimum Wage Creeps Up in Virginia and West Virginia
Last week,聽Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger said聽she would sign legislation to raise the state鈥檚 minimum wage to US$15 per hour by 2028. The bill, which would...
Bipartisan Airborne Act Reintroduced
Earlier this month, Rep. Don Beyer (Democrat-Virginia) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Republican-Pennsylvania) reintroduced the Airborne Act, legislation that would incentivize nonresidential building owners to conduct...
