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Zanzibar lifts private sector minimum wage by about 30% from January

The monthly floor moves from Sh347,000 to Sh450,000, foreign workers go to $1,500, and every worker must hold a written contract by December.

7 Nov 2026

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UK sets six-month unfair dismissal rule for 1 January in Act timetable

6 Nov 2026

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UK plans a law making employers publish salaries in job adverts

6 Nov 2026

Employment Law

Peru gives 30,600 small firms 20 working days to file a pay policy

6 Nov 2026

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Payroll Management

Upwork's Lifted buys Berlin employer of record WorkMotion

WorkMotion adds direct employment in more than 30 countries to Lifted's contractor services in 180+. It stays a separate German company with its own brand, and existing contracts, prices and EU data storage are…

4 Nov 2026

Employment Law

Singapore brings retirement age 65 and re-employment 70 forward to 2029

The government accepted all six recommendations of its senior employment workgroup, including a Flexi-Load Programme from 2028 and a Re-Employment Credit. Grant amounts and rules come in the first half of 2027.

26 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Peru sets make-up non-working days for the papal visit, 11 to 16 November

Decree DS 020-2026-TR covers seven departments and Callao on different days. Private employers opt in by agreement with staff, every hour off must be worked back, and tax deadlines do not move.

24 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Turkey's data regulator limits how employers read staff work email

Principle decision 2026/2035 says a general warning that mailboxes may be checked is not enough, consent is rarely a valid basis, and reading content needs a concrete suspicion. Breaches fall under the KVKK fines regime.

24 Oct 2026

HR Software

Dayforce agrees to buy Ribbon, a Toronto AI job interviewer

Ribbon, founded in 2022, says its voice AI has run more than a million screening interviews. Dayforce, taken private by Thoma Bravo this year, will build it into a new agentic recruiting product. No price was given.

24 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Kenya raises the fringe benefit and deemed interest rates to 9%

KRA's notice for October to December 2026 lifts both rates from 8%, which raises the taxable benefit on cheap staff loans. It was published three weeks into the quarter it covers.

23 Oct 2026

Employment Law

UK employers face a duty to stop third-party harassment from 30 October

The government's updated Employment Rights Act timetable confirms the harassment and trade union measures for 30 October, with six-month unfair dismissal protection and uncapped awards following on 1 January 2027.

22 Oct 2026

HR Software

BambooHR went offline for six hours to patch PHP, halting payroll work

The HR platform pulled its US, Canadian and Irish services as a precaution against the critical PHP flaws on 21 October and came back after patching, saying the outage interrupted payroll.

22 Oct 2026

HR Software

Instacart pays $5m to settle claims its PERM hiring shut out US workers

The Justice Department and the EEOC say Instacart made applicants mail paper applications for jobs advertised in green-card recruitment, while its normal hiring accepted online applications.

20 Oct 2026

HR Software

Singapore asks for 6% to 8% raises for lower-wage workers from December

The National Wages Council guidelines run from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2027 and add a category for unprofitable firms, which should still give at least $120; the wage credit scheme now runs to 2028.

20 Oct 2026

HR Software

Bullhorn restores its staffing platform after a three-day cyber incident

Recruiters on the ATS and CRM lost access from 17 October while CrowdStrike investigated; every region was back by 20 October, and Bullhorn has not yet said whether customer data was taken.

20 Oct 2026

Payroll Software

Hong Kong starts MPF Full Portability for newer staff on 21 December

Employees hired on or after 1 May 2025 can move their employer mandatory MPF contributions to a scheme of their choice. Phase Two, for everyone else, needs a bill due by mid-2027.

16 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Denmark cuts work permit salary bar to DKK 322,000 for 16 countries

The new scheme starts on 1 January 2027 for jobs covered by a collective agreement. Employers must be certified by SIRI first, with applications expected to open in early December.

15 Oct 2026

HR Software

Humanly buys CareerArc to add recruitment marketing to AI hiring

CareerArc brings HireSocial and Job Maps to a platform that screens and interviews candidates by chat, phone and video. Price and closing terms were not disclosed.

15 Oct 2026

HR Software

Personio buys Circula to put expenses next to HR and payroll

Circula, used by more than 3,000 companies, keeps its DATEV link and existing integrations. Personio says salaries, benefits, expenses and company cards will run on one platform; no price or timetable was given.

11 Oct 2026

Employment Law

ACLU asks California to investigate Criteria's Emotify hiring test

The complaint also names Criteria's cognitive, personality and AI video interview tools, and arrives while Workday still faces a California discrimination case over its screening software.

9 Oct 2026

Immigration Management

DHS proposes a $70,000 school fee for each student's first OPT

Later OPT recommendations, including STEM extensions, would cost schools $30,000 each. DHS says schools may pass the cost to students or employers, and the proposal is not yet in force.

9 Oct 2026

Employment Law

EEOC moves to withdraw its 2012 guidance on arrest and conviction records

The rule went to the White House for review on 6 October, and employment lawyers say employers still face Title VII risk if a background policy hits one group harder.

9 Oct 2026

Employment Law

US suspends eight IT and software firms from PERM green card filings

Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini are named as outsourcers; Microsoft and Adobe are cited for active federal investigations. Duration and effect on pending cases were not stated.

8 Oct 2026

Payroll Software

Ireland lifts PRSI by 0.15 points for payrolls from 1 October

The employee Class A rate moves from 4.2% to 4.35% and the employer rate above EUR 552 a week from 11.25% to 11.4%. Self-employed Class S also reaches 4.35%.

8 Oct 2026

Employment Law

DOL drops plan to pull FLSA guidance out of federal regulations

The Wage and Hour Division had proposed in July 2025 to remove nine interpretive parts from Title 29. It received six substantive comments, four of them opposed.

8 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Fifteen employment rule changes in nine countries this autumn

Nine of the fifteen tighten duties and six ease terms. Eleven carry a calendar date, the first on 30 October, and Singapore’s rule is not due until 1 July 2028.

8 Oct 2026

Employment Law

DOL sets $14.05 minimum wage for older federal contracts from 2027

Tipped workers move to a $9.85 cash wage. The rate covers only contracts signed from 2015 to January 2022 and not renewed since, and starts 90 days after publication.

8 Oct 2026

Employment Law

Austria lets single-permit holders change employer after 45 days

The law, which passed parliament as Federal Law Gazette I No. 81/2026, also lets permit holders keep status for six months of unemployment and caps most decisions at 90 days.

7 Oct 2026

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