If you work overtime, the tax code just changed in your favor, and it is the kind of change that shows up as money kept rather than money spent. A new deduction lets many workers subtract a chunk of their overtime pay from the income the IRS taxes, up to $12,500 a year. It runs…

For households following a Tennessee overtime recovery involving incentive bonuses, the key issue is where the money moves and which official record controls. The latest primary record supplies a concrete answer about a Tennessee overtime recovery involving incentive bonuses while drawing limits that matter before anyone acts. Separating the verified dollars in a Tennessee overtime…

A popular bakery’s labor bill now includes the wages it failed to pay and penalties for putting children to work illegally. Federal investigators found a 13-year-old employee, overnight shifts for a 15-year-old and overtime errors across three San Antonio locations. The company has paid a combined $45,000. The total combines worker money and government penalties…

Temp work runs through layers. A staffing agency hires the worker, a client company gets the labor, and the person actually doing the job can end up with two businesses above them and no clear answer about which one owes what. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced citations on August 5 against four staffing…

Federal investigators say four Detroit-area coney island restaurants ran payroll off two sets of timecards for the same workers. One set counted the first 40 hours of the week; the other tracked everything past 40, the hours federal law prices at time and a half. That second set was regularly destroyed, investigators allege, but the…

A factory closing over more than a year can squeeze a community long before the final shift ends. Goodyear has approved the permanent closure of its Fayetteville, North Carolina, tire plant, a plan that includes roughly 1,750 job reductions and is expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2027. The long runway gives…

A covered, nonexempt employee who works 50 hours in one workweek generally earns 10 hours of overtime, even if the next week contains only 30 hours. Federal law treats each workweek separately and does not let an employer average the two weeks into 40 hours apiece. Payroll schedules can group weeks on one check, but…

Hybrid schedules can put a commute in the middle of a day that contains work on both sides. A new Labor Department opinion says that travel can remain unpaid when the employee voluntarily chooses the split, controls the arrangement and is fully off duty while moving between home and the office. The result protects flexibility,…

A field employee’s workday may begin before the first client appointment when the job requires real scheduling and coordination from home. In a new fact-specific opinion, the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that required client calls and related coordination were compensable work and could start the continuous paid day. The answer does not convert every…

For a worker paid at the District of Columbia’s wage floor, July changed the value of every hour on the timecard. The citywide minimum rose to $18.40, while the direct cash wage for tipped employees rose to $10.30. Tips can fill the gap, but the legal duty to guarantee the full minimum remains with the…