The U.S. Department of Labor recently followed up with The Metropolis Diner in Medford, New York to ensure the restaurant issued employees checks for the back wages they were owed, but found it had disregarded the settlement.

Twenty Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) employees boosted their salaries with more than $100,000 in overtime wages.

Pennsylvania Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) sergeant Edwin Rivera doubled his base salary last year by collecting over-the-top overtime wages.

Four diners in Connecticut were recently ordered to pay more than $370,000 in back wages and penalties for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime and child labor provisions.

If they aren't properly compensating workers for their employee attendance, they could be investigated by the Wage and Hour Division and ordered to pay back wages or penalties.

The Supreme Court denied pharmaceutical sales representatives the right to overtime pay in a lawsuit brought against drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline in a recent ruling.

Unauthorized tasks completed before a scheduled shift do not always count toward overtime, according to Business Management Daily.

Employers without proper payroll processing services may be vulnerable to overtime and minimum wage violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which can result in double pay, as reported by Business Management Daily

The Temp Team, a Dallas-based recruitment agency, recently agreed to pay 252 employees $244,104 in back wages for unpaid overtime.