The former business manager of a Sharp County, Missouri-based company was recently found to have increased her weekly payroll amounts without authorization, the Area Wide News reports.

A former nurses' manager at Virginia's Lynchburg General Hospital was recently convicted of embezzlement after being accused of stealing from her employer by falsifying payroll records.

Dallas, Texas-based SuperMedia, which sells print and online advertising to small and medium-sized businesses, recently became the subject of a time and attendance-related class action law suit involving hundreds of its sales employees.

A former Citizens Bank assistant branch manager recently filed a class-action law suit against the bank on behalf of the more than 200 people who held her position at Citizens branches in Massachusetts since March 2008.

The former office manager for Sibley, Iowa-based company Ellerbroek and Associates was recently ordered to pay nearly $28,000 in restitution and serve 100 days behind bars for third-degree fraudulent practice.

A woman in Pennsylvania has consistently earned a weekly average of $1,094 in overtime on top of a $90,000 salary, despite the fact that her time and attendance while on the job clocks in at 42.6 hours per week.

CareerBuilder’s recently released 2011 Mid-Year Job Forecast offers those in the employee recruiting industry important insights into the current state of hiring.

Employees at the registry office in Florence, Italy, are now required to punch the timeclock when they take a cigarette break, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.

California-based Farmers Insurance recently agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in overtime back wages to nearly 3,500 employees at 11 of its customer service call centers in six states.