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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Healthcare & LaborThe minimum wage in the state of Illinois is $15.00 per hour for workers 18 and older, the rate that took effect January 1, 2025, completing a phased schedule of six annual increases. But Illinois doesn't operate on a single number.
Labor Policy & LawTexas does not set its own minimum wage dollar amount. The state's minimum wage law, administered by the Texas Workforce Commission, defers entirely to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which means workers in Texas earn a floor of $7.25 per hour, a rate unchanged since July 24, 2009.
The National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel Crystal Stowe Carey issued a memo on August 26 identifying the Cemex precedent—a Biden-era rule enabling unions to organize through card-check campaigns—as a target for reversal, according to FreightWaves.
Labor Policy & LawThe National Labor Relations Board is the independent federal agency that decides whether your employer broke the law when it fired you for talking about wages, interrogated you about a union meeting, or refused to bargain after workers voted to organize.
Labor Policy & LawAmendment 42, approved by Colorado voters in 2006, turned the state's minimum wage into a self-adjusting constitutional provision indexed to the Consumer Price Index for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.
Truck drivers rallied outside the Etobicoke office of Secretary of State for Labour John Zerucelli on September 12, demanding the federal government redirect enforcement of wage-theft laws away from workers and toward the employers violating Canada Labour Code protections, according to Justice for T
Healthcare & LaborThe state of Missouri minimum wage is set through voter-approved ballot initiatives rather than ordinary legislation, a mechanism that carried the rate to $12.30 per hour in 2024 and will push it to $15.00 by January 2026.
Union OrganizingDutch employers' associations announced Friday they will push to redirect 2027 collective bargaining negotiations away from wage increases toward investments in training and artificial intelligence, arguing that productivity gains must precede higher pay.
Workers & the EconomyThree separate legal floors governed what California employers owed their workers during 2025: a $16.50 statewide baseline, a $20.00 fast-food sector rate, and a healthcare scale climbing as high as $23.00 per hour at large hospital systems.
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating the automatic right for more than 2 million federal and D.C.
