Category: Paychecks & Work
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The Labor Department is scrapping the rules behind a 60-year-old federal hiring order on October 26
Executive Order 11246 never worked by inspecting anyone. It worked through a clause. Since 1965, covered federal contracts had to carry an equal opportunity clause, and a body of regulations sitting behind that clause told contractors exactly what they owed the people they hired and the people who applied: written plans, workforce analyses, records kept…
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Tyson closed two beef plants in one day, blaming one of the most historic cattle shortages ever
On August 13, 2026, Tyson Foods put out a news release announcing the end of operations at two beef plants on the same day: a beef facility in Joslin, Illinois, and a case-ready facility in Eagle Mountain, Utah. That same date now sits on Utah’s official layoff-notice table beside the name Tyson Fresh Meats and…
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An Alabama recycler will pay $2.6 million to women it refused to hire
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took TCI of Alabama, LLC to federal court after its administrative conciliation process failed to produce a pre-litigation settlement. On July 22, 2026, the agency announced how the case ended: a three-year consent decree under which the recycler will pay $2.6 million in monetary damages to compensate women who were…
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Cross $20,000 and 200 payments on a selling app, and a stale tax ID number costs you 24 percent up front
Backup withholding is not a penalty and it is not a tax bill. It is a switch a payment platform flips when the taxpayer identification number it holds for a seller is missing or wrong, and once it is on, 24 percent of a payment comes off the top before the rest reaches the seller’s…
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Langeloth Metallurgical will pay $3,662,485 to 51 workers it refused to rehire
The NLRB announced a $3,662,485 settlement for 51 former Langeloth Metallurgical strikers, covering backpay, 401(k) contributions, interest, taxes and $1.275 million in front pay.
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July brought the fewest announced layoffs in two years, though employers named AI as the top reason for a fifth straight month
The layoff numbers for July came in lower than any month in two years. Buried inside the same report is a detail that complicates the good news: for the fifth month running, the reason employers gave most often for cutting jobs was artificial intelligence. Both things are in the same tally, and a household trying…
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Five states have locked in January 1 minimum wage raises, led by California at $17.40 an hour
Five states have now published the minimum wage that will apply inside their borders on January 1, 2027. Each of the five arrived at its number by a different route — one by an inflation formula, one by statute written years in advance, one by a ballot measure’s schedule, two by legislation — and each…
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A wage judgment against Leo’s Coney Island returns $515,000 to 143 Michigan workers
Federal wage investigators keep finding the same arrangement in restaurants: one set of timecards for the payroll system and another that records the hours actually worked. A Michigan case resolved this summer describes exactly that, with a detail that turns an ordinary overtime case into something harder to explain away. The second set of records…
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North Carolina recovered a record $3.7 million in unpaid wages for workers this year
A record year for one state’s labor department is really a record year for the workers who got their money back. North Carolina announced that it recovered $3.7 million in unpaid wages this fiscal year — the most it has ever clawed back for workers shorted on their paychecks. Behind that headline number is a…
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An Arizona senior-living operator will pay $250,000 after the EEOC said it sent a worker alone with a resident who had harassed staff
Two hundred fifty thousand dollars is what an Arizona senior-living operator agreed to pay to close a federal sexual harassment lawsuit. The detail worth a working person’s attention is who the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said did the harassing: not a supervisor and not a coworker, but residents of the facility the employees were hired…
