Category: Paychecks & Work
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Sutter Roseville will pay $200,000 after refusing a nurse’s disability accommodation
A disability can change which tasks or work locations remain possible without ending a person’s ability to work. Sutter Roseville Medical Center has agreed to provide $200,000 in back pay and compensatory damages to a former staff nurse after a federal investigation found the hospital refused to consider reassignment to an open position and terminated…
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D.C.’s minimum wage is now $18.40, and employers must cover any tip shortfall
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…
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Bouchon and Thomas Keller Restaurant Group will pay $2 million to settle an EEOC harassment case
A workplace case at a celebrated Las Vegas restaurant ended with a dollar amount large enough to command attention and a compliance plan designed to change what happens after a worker complains. Bouchon and Thomas Keller Restaurant Group agreed to pay $2 million to resolve a federal harassment and retaliation lawsuit. The settlement does not…
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Average hourly pay and consumer prices both rose 3.5% over the past year
Average hourly earnings rose 3.5 percent over the year to $37.64 while the CPI rose 3.5 percent over the same window. Long-term unemployment is up 286,000.
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Unclaimed back wages go to the Treasury after three years
The Labor Department holds recovered back wages for three years before sending them to the U.S. Treasury. Here is how the Workers Owed Wages search works and what it requires.
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Third-party apps send a 1099-K only above $20,000 and 200 payments, but your side income is taxable either way
A household clears out a garage over the summer, lists a couple dozen things on a resale app and collects a few thousand dollars. January comes and no tax form arrives in the mail. The natural conclusion is that the amount was too small for the Internal Revenue Service to bother with, and that the…
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$2.6 million will go to women an Alabama recycling plant refused to hire as laborers, federal investigators said
Somewhere in Pell City, Alabama, and the towns around it, are women who applied for laborer work at a recycling plant and never heard back. By the federal government’s account, some of them were turned away as long ago as 2006, and the pattern ran until late 2022. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says…
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$105,000 went to a male surgical technician after a jury found two doctors barred him from most of his duties
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on July 28 that it had won a jury verdict in the kind of case most people never picture the agency bringing. A federal jury in Fayetteville, Arkansas found that a hospital allowed two of its doctors to strip a male surgical technician of most of the work…
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Florida’s minimum wage rises from $14 to $15 an hour on September 30
On September 30, the wage floor under Florida’s hourly workers moves up by a dollar. For someone scheduled 40 hours a week at that floor, the step is worth about $40 more per week before taxes, or roughly $2,080 across a full year of full-time hours. The increase has not taken effect yet, and the…
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DC Water will pay nearly $217,000 to settle claims it fired a worker over his age
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority had written policies covering performance notification, progressive discipline and internal appeals. When it fired a member of its own human resources department in September 2023, federal regulators say it followed none of them. That gap between the rulebook and the firing became part of an age discrimination…