Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, also known as Scotiabank, recently lost an appeal of a class action lawsuit alleging that it denied overtime pay to more than 5,000 of its employees, the Globe and Mail reports.

A former head waiter at the Paterson, New Jersey-based The Brownstone recently filed a lawsuit against the restaurant, claiming that he was never compensated for the 850 hours of overtime he worked per year between 2005 and his resignation last month.

Poughkeepsie, New York, officials are working with the city's police department to formulate a plan that will help the department cut costs, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

A Honolulu police officer was recently found not guilty of tampering with a government record and being an accomplice to third-degree theft after he was accused of falsifying a police report for his supervisor to collect six hours of overtime pay.

A time and attendance dispute has erupted in the city of Tyler, Texas, after an employee of the Hospice of East Texas filed suit over unpaid overtime wages, the Southeast Texas Record reports.

A recent payroll investigation by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs found that at least 17 Trenton Parks and Recreation Department employees may have committed time theft, the Times of Trenton reports.

The Scottsdale, Arizona, city council recently approved an overtime policy that has prompted protests from local police union representatives.

A former police officer was recently indicted on 12 counts of tampering with a governmental record and one count of theft by a public servant after traffic supervisors discovered that he had received nearly $22,000 in overtime for hours he had not worked.

California's stringent workplace regulations are thought to have contributed to the loss of more than 600,000 private sector jobs over the past decade - the highest loss in the U.S.