Overtime Hours News Today

VIRGINIA BEACH — An increase in overtime shifts has led to burnout for Virginia Beach firefighters, costing $3.7 million last fiscal year, all the while more employees are leaving the department. Fire Chief Ken Pravetz shared the struggle with the City Council last month. He requested 140 new full-time positions divided into two tiers including an initial immediate need of 60 positions for ...

The new rule expands the number of employees eligible for extra pay after working more than 40 hours. Legal challenges have derailed previous changes.

Millions more Americans could become eligible for overtime pay.

An Elburn firefighter was found guilty of theft after adding unworked overtime hours to his schedule and earning over $17,000 extra, according to the Kane County State's Attorney.

Former employees of Kentwood-based Fifth Wheel Freight are suing the company, claiming they weren't paid properly for overtime hours.

Early research from two California universities show different results on the financial impact of the 2016 law.

Find yourself a ‘lazy’ job.

(KRON) — A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, showed that California farmworkers made less money since a bill meant to increase wages for overtime work passed in 2016. The bill, AB 1066, removed overtime exemptions and introduced new standards phasing in lower overtime standards until normal work week hours (eight hours per […]

A Burbank business kept nearly half a million dollars from more than 100 workers as overtime pay, then lied to investigators and said that the employees did not work overtime hours, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday. The Rodin Group, a paint and wall-covering company, paid more than $481,000 to the DOL after investigators […]

Virginia Beach firefighter Max Gonano was coming off a 24-hour shift on Father’s Day when he was told he’d have to work another 12 hours to cover for a staffing shortfall.