Category: Paychecks & Work
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A disability services provider will pay $65,000 after rejecting a deaf applicant for a housekeeping job
An Indianapolis provider of residential services for people with developmental disabilities will pay $65,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit accusing it of rejecting a job applicant because he is deaf. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Damar Services, Inc. after a single phone interview in 2023 in which, the agency says, staff learned the…
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A senior living operator will pay $250,000 to women it left facing harassment from residents
A company that manages six senior living communities in Arizona has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of leaving female employees to deal with repeated sexual harassment from residents on its own. The case, brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Christian Care Management, Inc. (CCMI), centers on…
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Federal law still allows no overtime on a $35,568 salary, while California’s line rises to $72,384
Two salaried workers doing the same job for the same pay can have very different rights to overtime, depending only on which state they live in. Under federal law, a salaried employee who earns as little as $35,568 a year can be classified as “exempt” and denied overtime pay entirely, no matter how many extra…
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A federal proposal would make it easier to call a worker an independent contractor
Independent contractor status sounds like a technical HR label, but it decides three very concrete things: whether a worker is guaranteed the federal minimum wage, whether they are owed overtime, and whether they can take job-protected leave. A new Department of Labor proposal would redraw the line between contractor and employee, making it easier for…
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The EEOC says Family Dollar fired a pregnant worker over a doctor’s note she could not get
A federal agency says a North Carolina store manager gave a pregnant employee hours to produce a doctor’s note on New Year’s Eve, then fired her when she couldn’t get one in time. The case, filed as a lawsuit rather than settled quietly, is a reminder of a federal law many hourly workers and their…
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Ford will pay $2.3 million over racist graffiti at a Buffalo plant, and former workers can come forward
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced this week that Ford Motor Company has agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve a years-long harassment investigation tied to its stamping plant near Buffalo, New York. Investigators found reasonable cause to believe workers there were exposed to racist and ethnically targeted graffiti in bathrooms and break rooms,…
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Artificial intelligence was the top stated reason for layoffs for a fifth straight month
For the fifth month in a row, U.S. employers explaining why they cut jobs pointed to artificial intelligence more than any other reason. That isn’t a worker survey or an economist’s estimate — it’s what companies themselves wrote down when they announced the cuts, tracked by the outplacement firm that has logged layoff reasons since…
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A preliminary federal revision finds 79,000 fewer jobs than the government had reported
The federal government just confirmed the March 2026 jobs count was overstated. A preliminary estimate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds the U.S. economy had 79,000 fewer nonfarm jobs on the books that month than the monthly payroll survey had reported, with the private-sector shortfall running more than twice as deep. For anyone gauging…
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Hiring in professional and business services fell by 188,000 in a single month
The federal government’s monthly read on the job market flagged something narrower than the usual headline this week: hiring in professional and business services — the broad category covering law firms, accounting practices, consultants, administrative support and temp-staffing agencies — dropped by 188,000 in July, even as most other parts of the report barely moved.…
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Junior enlisted troops are set for a 7 percent raise in January under the same pay plan
The same White House document that would freeze civilian federal pay for 2027 does the opposite for the youngest members of the armed forces. Buried in the back half of an alternative pay plan built around holding General Schedule salaries flat sits a directed increase for military basic pay, and the biggest number in it…