A new bill sponsored by Democratic senator Bob Casey seeks to make misclassification of employees a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A California worker is filing a class action lawsuit against her national specialty clothing store employer for shorting her pay.

Six firefighters have filed a lawsuit against the city of Charleston, claiming the city failed to compensate them with overtime pay.

After closing in 2011, a Miami Beach restaurant finally compensated its former workers with 75 percent of the back pay owed to them.

A furniture distributor based in Calexico, Calif. agreed to pay more than $120,000 in back overtime pay to current and former employees.

On Nov. 9, the city of Topeka, Kan. ended an overtime pay practice that affected management positions within the fire department.

Veterans Affairs is suspending a program that required disability claims processors to work at least 20 hours of overtime per month.

A recent case demonstrates that violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act can bear more serious results than being required to compensate employees for back wages and overtime pay.

President Barack Obama endorses raising the federal minimum wage to at least $10 per hour.