As part of its recent employee recruiting efforts, McDonald's recently held a National Hiring Day with the aim of taking on 50,000 new workers.

A former nurse at Virginia's Lynchburg General Hospital was recently charged with embezzlement after allegedly stealing more than $46,000 from the healthcare provider's parent organization, according to WSLS.

The city of Kingston, located in New York's Hudson Valley region, recently approved measures to tighten authorization and recording regulations related to police overtime in the wake of a double-dipping scandal, according to the Times-Herald Record.

Last year, an engineer for New York's Long Island Rail Road earned more than triple his base salary as a result of overtime and other perks, according to recent payroll analysis by the New York Daily News.

A continuing study by University College London has found that those who typically clock in employee attendance of 11 hours or longer are more than two-thirds more likely to develop heart disease compared to those who worked seven- to eight-hour days.

San Francisco Supervisor David Campos recently proposed new legislation to crack down on employers who pay their workers less than minimum wage, according to the San Francisco Appeal.

A Watertown, Massachusetts school official was recently convicted of stealing money from the town, committing federal program fraud and filing false tax returns, according to the Watertown Patch.

The former postmaster of Bridgeton, New Jersey was recently charged with one count of misappropriation of postal funds and one count of aiding and abetting in connection with an alleged payroll scheme, the Daily Journal reports.

In the first appellate-level case to address denying break requirements to employees, the California Court of Appeals ruled that workers can recover up to two hours of pay for each day that they were not allowed to take the meal and rest breaks.