After a six-year run in Las Vegas, this year's Miss America pageant, was held in Atlantic City, N.J., and the event cost the city nearly $400,000 in overtime.

A Pennsylvania resident is suing his employer, a large Internet retail company for failing to compensate hourly workers for overtime accumulated during mandatory security searches in a warehouse facility located outside of Allentown

For the second time in just a few months, an electronics company is faced with a class-action lawsuit brought on by employees who waited in security lines while off the clock.

California's Red Bluff City Council is struggling with budget concerns and is faced with public safety issues as a result of overtime-pay allocation problems.

A California federal district judge recently ruled that the 51 information technology job titles listed in an exempt status misclassification case differed too much from one another to be unified under a collective or class-action lawsuit.

The New Orleans city agency that manages the French Market spent nearly $75,000 in budget excesses in overtime pay in 2010, according to a report issued last week.

With the changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act, there is a lot of concern that business owners may simply cut hours of employees to avoid paying for health care.

The California state legislature recently passed a bill that will increase minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016.

Salary increases over the next year are projected to average at about 3 percent, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.