A minimum wage spike and expansion of mandatory paid leave, set to take effect in February, were overturned by a Michigan Court of Appeals panel Thursday, teeing up negotiations between industry and state Democratic leaders.

The layoff announcements coming lately from the chief executive officers of big technology companies all contain variations on the theme of “we hired too many people during the pandemic,” expressed with varying degrees of contrition.

Final instructions for the 2022 Form 1042 were released Jan. 24 by the Internal Revenue Service.

Foreign per diem rates for more than 200 locations, including Jakarta, Tokyo, and Sydney, were updated by the US State Department and take effect Feb. 1.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposes to cancel a planned $750 million payment to the US Treasury to pay back what it borrowed during the pandemic, when the state doled out billions of dollars in jobless benefits. Business leaders and their advocates in the Legislature suggest that keeping the state in debt could threaten job growth in California and harm the private sector as they face rising compliance costs.

Democrats and safety organizations want the US Labor Department to go further in its child labor enforcement efforts by revisiting certain limits on the types of jobs minors can work, but the Biden administration says it doesn’t have the rulemaking bandwidth to take on such an update.