EOR & Compliance Digest, June 28: Singapore CPF Platform Workers, EU Pay Gaps, and a Big July 1 If you pay anyone through a gig platform in Singapore, this one…
Editor's Note This week, AI tools kept showing up in places people assumed were off-limits. A studio known for hand-made cinema took money to build AI filmmaking tools. India scrambled…
If you employ anyone in California, France, or Singapore, July 1 is the date to circle. The California healthcare minimum wage steps up again. France just reset the salary floors…
The AI money moved in two directions this week, and the gap tells you something. On one side, private inference compute funding hit a record, as a single platform raised…
UK Senior Manager Liability Goes Live June 29 If you run a distributed team with anyone in Britain, this week matters. UK senior manager liability becomes real on June 29,…
The Workforce Data Cutting Against the AI Job Panic All week the headlines read like a countdown to mass unemployment. One enterprise software giant confirmed 21,000 job cuts and pinned…
Pay transparency stopped being a coastal experiment this month. On July 1, the Virginia salary history ban takes effect. At the same time, the EU's pay transparency deadline has passed.…
Four countries just lined up the same deadline. If you hire across the UK, the US, Singapore, or Australia, July 1 is not a normal Wednesday. In Britain, the new…
AI News Deep Dive, June 24: AI Job Cut Disclosures Go on the Record For three years, executives blamed layoffs on "macro headwinds" and "efficiency." This week the language changed.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 21: Australia's Payday Super Deadline Lands Two compliance clocks are running down this fortnight, and both reset how you run a distributed team. The biggest…
Governments and AI labs spent the week trying to agree on rules nobody is legally bound to follow. At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, heads of state shared a…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 19: UK Guaranteed Hours Contracts Move From Paper to Deadline If you employ anyone in Britain on flexible shifts, this week matters. The UK government…
Every chart this week pointed up. SHRM told a room of 20,000 HR pros in Orlando that 92% of CHROs want deeper AI. Investors handed $60 billion to a single…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 17: Germany's Active Pension Goes Tax-Free as US Overtime Rolls Back If you run payroll in Germany, the rules for older workers just changed. The…
Microsoft just turned an experiment into a billing line item. On June 16 it moved Copilot Cowork, its agent for long-running, multi-tool work, to worldwide general availability after a three-month…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 16: UK Enforcement Bites While the US and Australia Redraw Pay Rules If you employ anyone in Britain, the rules just got teeth. The UK…
One funding round can tell you where a market is heading. This week, India produced its newest homegrown AI unicorn. The timing is not a coincidence. In the same week,…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 15: Singapore Employment Pass Renewals Tighten as UK, India, and Thailand Shift the Rules If you sponsor talent in Asia or Europe, this is the…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 14: Saudi Arabia's June 30 Deadline and the UK's New Day-One Rights If you employ anyone in Saudi Arabia, the clock is loud this week.…
The China humanoid robot IPO wave is no longer a forecast. It is paperwork. A Shenzhen startup that did not exist three years ago just filed to go public. Two…