According to the eighth annual Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking Report, companies that invested in a mobile workforce in 2012 gained more revenue on average than companies that did not.

The Sonoma County Fair used a labor law exemption to avoid paying overtime to roughly 600 temporary workers employed during the annual 16-day fair in July.

In an attempt to keep overtime hours under control, on Oct. 2, the Jefferson Parish Council in Louisiana proposed that employees seeking more than 15 percent of their base pay in overtime need to request a letter from the parish president, as well as approval from an ethics committee.

An overtime dispute has surfaced within the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency, a five-person group that handles the cases of inmates seeking early releases from prison.

Workplaces have employee attendance policies for good reasons; a consistently late colleague can disrupt workflow and decrease the efficiency of the entire office.

Small businesses can rarely afford a costly lawsuit, so whenever possible, managers must take particular care to ensure full compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

With the mobile technology that is increasingly available to the workforce, employers are often faced with the difficult task of managing a large number of remote staff members.

A fire department dispatcher in Gates, a suburb of Rochester, NY, is faced with charges of falsifying his time card.

A long-raging dispute between Brinker Restaurant Corporation and five California employees was extended last week, as the California Supreme Court ruled to allow the employees to continue the case as a class-action lawsuit.