Category: Paychecks & Work
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A South Carolina restaurant chain paid $618,666 to 779 workers over a tip pool that included managers
Investigators went looking for unpaid overtime at a South Carolina restaurant company and found something else stacked on top: managers with their hands in the same tip pool that servers, bartenders and bussers were splitting after their shifts. When the U.S. Department of Labor finished counting, the bill came to $618,666 in back wages for…
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Apple will pay $150,000 to a worker fired after asking for the Sabbath off
A federal lawsuit over a Virginia Apple Store employee’s request for two days off a week to observe his faith has ended in a $150,000 settlement. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that Apple Inc. agreed to pay the money and update its religious-accommodation policies after the agency accused the company of denying a…
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Fifty-one strikers will split $3.66 million after a company refused to take them back, about $71,813 each
After a six-year-old labor dispute in a small Pennsylvania town, the National Labor Relations Board has just announced one of the larger strike settlements it has issued this year. Langeloth Metallurgical Company will pay $3,662,485 to 51 former strikers after the Board’s Region 6 found the company illegally slow-walked or refused to bring workers back…
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Federal projections show office and clerical work losing 752,100 jobs by 2035, with AI named as a driver
A new 10-year forecast from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts a specific number on a trend office workers have been hearing about for years: artificial intelligence and automation are projected to shrink demand for administrative jobs more than any other line of work in the economy. The projection, covering 2025 through 2035, forecasts…
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Only 38.6 percent of displaced workers 65 and older found new work, and nearly half stopped looking
The newest federal snapshot of layoffs makes one thing plain: age is one of the biggest predictors of whether someone gets back to work after losing a job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that among long-tenured workers pushed out of a job between 2023 and 2025, only 38.6 percent of those 65 and older…
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Layoffs and closings displaced 7.4 million workers over three years, up 1.2 million from the prior survey
New federal data released this week puts a hard number on something many households have felt directly: losing a job is no longer a rare event. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 7.4 million American workers lost jobs to layoffs, plant closings, or abolished positions over the three years from January 2023 through…
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American Airlines will pay $200,000 after firing an employee who lost her sight
American Airlines will pay $200,000 to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the carrier of refusing to help a Fort Worth reservations employee keep working after she lost her sight. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the airline kept the worker on unpaid, involuntary leave for almost four years after she developed cortical blindness…
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Kroger will pay $75,000 to a cashier it turned away over nerve damage
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a national grocery chain will pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing it of shutting out a cashier who asked for a place to sit. The worker, a breast cancer survivor whose treatment left her with permanent nerve damage in her legs, asked only for a stool during…
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The salary line for guaranteed overtime pay is back down to $35,568
A federal salary line that determines whether a company can legally treat an executive, administrative, or professional employee as exempt from overtime pay is back at $684 a week, or $35,568 a year, after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division restored that figure on May 15, 2026. The move ends an 18-month…
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The government just erased 178,000 private-sector jobs from its count through March
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ running count of private-sector jobs through March 2026 was too high by 178,000, the agency disclosed on August 28, 2026, in a preliminary revision to its Current Employment Statistics program. Total nonfarm employment for that same month, once government hiring is folded back in, was overstated by 79,000. The gap…
