A report issued last week by the Office of Special Counsel determined U.S. Department of Homeland Security workers were claiming unworked overtime in a systemic abuse of the overtime pay system.

A hotel chain in Texas and New Mexico — MCM Elegante and MCM Grande Hotels — recently agreed to pay $78,876 in overtime to some 200 employees.

After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, a Tennessee corporation paid back wages to employees.

Activists are petitioning an international thrift store non-profit chain that pays disabled workers less than minimum wage.

On Nov. 5, voters in the small town of SeaTac, Wash. voted on a bill that proposed to raise the minimum wage for certain workers.

Federal employees who performed work during the government shutdown are filing a lawsuit for double payment for hours worked between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, including overtime, if applicable.

A trial has been set for prison guards' lawsuit against a national private prison company.

All employees of a national bridal store chain have been changed to part-time workers.

A lawsuit filed by 800 current and former Indiana steel workers claims that time spent putting on and removing protective gear should be compensated by their employer.