Top-level staff at a Montana hospital are taking furlough days and all hospital employees are foregoing earned vacation time to keep services functioning at 100 percent.

Alabama's Lawrence county is paying a group of seven employees a total of about $22,500 to clear up issues with comp time.

Police officers in East Haven, Conn. accumulated more than $600,000 in overtime pay since July 1.

Managers and union representatives at a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire agreed to terms of a new contract in the last day before a lockout involving significant numbers of employees would have gone into effect.

Emergency medical responders in Rutherford County, N.C. can no longer work part-time positions on local rescue crews because of their full-time employment with county-level EMS providers.

City officials in Ypsilanti, Mich. are considering a significant raise in the city's police overtime budget, bringing the total figure from $350,000 to $450,000.

Community activists in Massachusetts, including labor organizations and church groups, are advocating for a raise to the state's minimum wage.

A car wash in Santa Monica, Calif. was recently ordered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay back 75 workers for wage and labor violations after employee time was willfully miscalculated and sometimes totally ignored.

Another powerful reason to maintain proper employee tracking software and records recently came from a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which ruled that the CEO of a New York City grocery chain can be held liable for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.