Sergeant Shawn Helbig of the Bowling Green, Kentucky, police department is suing the city for two hours of overtime compensation that he received at a normal pay rate, according to the Bowling Green Daily News.

The United States Department of Labor recently recovered more than $100,000 in overtime back wages for 57 Hurricane Ike cleanup workers who had been inaccurately classified as independent contractors by their Anahuac, Texas, employer.

A former Texas kindergarten teacher recently filed a lawsuit against the company alleging that she was fired for complaining about not being awarded the correct overtime compensation, according to the Southeast Texas Record.

A recent employee recruiting survey by Jobvite found that 21st century workers are likely to switch jobs considerably more often than their 20th century counterparts.

Brentwood, Missouri, officials recently struck a deal to reclaim overtime payments erroneously made to firefighters on the suburb's payroll over a period of more than two decades, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The former bookkeeper for a Norman, Oklahoma-based company was recently sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on the charges of embezzling from her employer, according to the Norman Transcript.

Wells Fargo Bank recently agreed to pay $105,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming that some of its Nevada business banking specialists were required to work off the clock and denied overtime.

A lawsuit was recently filed against the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and its CEO, Sheldon Adelson, alleging that nine security agents and a driver on its payroll had not been paid overtime in accordance with provisions set by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Class action suits were recently filed against Enterprise Products Partners and American Commercial Lines for failing to pay their employees overtime, according to the Southeast Texas Record.