Many Arizona workers operate under a common but costly assumption: if you receive a salary, you’re not eligible for overtime pay. This misunderstanding contributes to a nationwide problem of wage ...

Sheriff OT: Dozens of sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers in Cuyahoga County saw their base salaries double — and in some cases triple — in 2024 by working extraordinary amounts of overtime, ...

Most people think of being a police officer as a blue-collar job that pays a working-class salary, but that isn't always the case at the Austin Police Department, where some officers make double their ...

It hasn’t received much public attention, but there’s a potential blockbuster case pending before the Illinois Supreme Court involving worker pay that could cost businesses many millions of dollars.

The city of West Des Moines will pay nearly $350,000 to settle a lawsuit with 15 fire captains and lieutenants. Firefighters alleged the city violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by misclassifying ...

CHICAGO — The City of Chicago’s Inspector General Office (OIG) claims $26.5 million in overtime was paid to employees potentially ineligible for it from 2020 to 2024. The period of time reviewed was ...

Imagine working for a company on a project where there’s a deadline you have to meet. If you were told that everyone needed to work overtime in order to meet the deadline, would you be willing to work ...

Cash-grabbing state employees boosted their bottom lines last year with coveted overtime shifts, contract buyouts and more, with State Police hiking their pay into six-figure heights by claiming ...

Kroger has been sued more than 20 times since 2020 by managers who accuse the grocer of misclassifying them to avoid paying overtime. The company recently settled a collective action lawsuit involving ...

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