State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released a report showing that New York state workers accumulated 12.2 million hours of overtime that earned them $469 million in extra wages last year.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) paid patrolmen an additional $166,000 in wages for their overtime employee attendance during last month's Occupy demonstration

Following an investigation into Boston-area restaurants, the Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division found that Metropolitan Club in Chestnut Hill was in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions.

Matthew Tobin filed a lawsuit against his employer, Sussex, Wisconsin-based Beer Capitol Distributing Inc. for failing to pay him proper wages for his employee overtime, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Delivery giant Federal Express has come under scrutiny for its practice of improperly classifying drivers as independent contractors

The DOL's investigation discovered the company wasn't paying laborers, machine operators and foreman for overtime employee attendance.

Investigators said the Boston-area restaurants owed 478 workers back wages totaling $1,307,808.

Rainbow Riders Childcare Center in Blacksburg, Virginia, recently came under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division for unpaid overtime.

To avoid investigations by the Wage and Hour Division and avoid paying penalties, employers should take special care when writing job descriptions