A former worker for a Texas oil field equipment company recently filed a lawsuit claiming his employment was unfairly terminated after he complained that he was inaccurately classified as a salaried employee in order to be exempted from overtime.

According to a recent survey by Expedia, only 38 percent of employed adults in the United States used all of the vacation time they accrued in 2010.

The Newark Fire Department is perilously close to consuming the overtime funds set aside in its annual budget, with just $2,350 remaining of the more than $230,000 it was originally apportioned, according to the Newark Advocate.

A Texan cable installer recently filed a lawsuit against his former employer, alleging that the company deliberately misclassified him to avoid paying him extra for his overtime employee attendance, according to the Southeast Texas Record.

The Canadian province of Alberta is in the process of hiring six additional employment standards officers and increasing its use of third-party auditors in an effort to address a rising number of complaints about unfairness in the workplace.

Despite a $171 million budget shortfall, the school district of Broward County, Florida, continues to pay employees with two jobs overtime at the hourly rate of their primary positions, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

According to a recent federal appeals court decision, more than 4,000 sergeants working for the New York City Police Department are eligible to receive overtime back pay, Reuters reports.

In a bid to improve its employee recruiting and retention rates, the Otay Water District in San Diego County, California, recently approved lifetime healthcare benefits for its union workers.

The four agencies in Montgomery County, Maryland, that spent the most on overtime in 2010 were found to have increased their spending in the last quarter of the fiscal year that ended on June 30, according to the Washington Examiner.