Companies using outdated job titles for delivery drivers could face lawsuits seeking proper compensation for overtime wages and now it’s happening in Ohio. A collective-action lawsuit by route drivers working for Alfred Nickles Bakery, based in Stark County, is expected to go to trial following a judge’s decision to deny a motion by the company [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners are rushing to get their companies — in particular their employees — ready for an upcoming change in overtime rules. With federal regulations that are expected to affect the paychecks of 4.2 million workers going into effect Dec. 1, human resources consultants say they’re seeing a surge in [...]
TOKYO — Matsuri Takahashi’s dream career at Japan’s top ad agency, Dentsu, ended with her suicide as her overtime pushed past 100 hours a month. “I’m emotionless and only wish to sleep,” she wrote, exhausted and depressed, in a Twitter post in October 2015, six months after starting the job. On Christmas day, the 24-year-old [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Farmworkers in the nation’s largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a law that California Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he had signed. The new law, which will be phased in beginning in 2019, is the first of its kind [...]