High time and attendance compensation has led to nurses overtaking police officers and firefighters as San Francisco's highest paid city workers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

A Washington State Patrol lieutenant whose employee attendance compensation earnings were unusually high has been placed on administrative reassignment pending the results of a criminal investigation, according to the Seattle Times.

Fort Scott, Kansas-based contractor Mid-Continental Restoration was recently ordered to pay more than $99,000 in employee attendance back pay to 47 workers at its Murfreesboro, Tennessee, location.

An electrician from LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, recently filed a lawsuit against his employer for alleged violations of the time and attendance provisions set by the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to the Louisiana Record.

A former employee of Los Angeles, California candy store Sweet Harts recently sued the establishment for racial discrimination and violations of time and attendance legislation.

In order to meet guard-to-inmate ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the Cameron County jail division increased its overtime employee attendance payouts between 2008 and 2010.

According to a recent report by Connecticut budget officials, state employees were paid $250 million in overtime over a 12-month period that ended on June 30, the Hartford Courant reports.

The labor commissioner of California recently filed a $17 million lawsuit against real estate company ZipRealty, claiming that it failed to observe state and federal time and attendance regulations.

Earlier this year, Texas-based Hill Country Farms was ordered to pay $1.76 million in overtime back wages and damages for repeatedly violating time and attendance compensation requirements.