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DHS Workers Watch Netflix, Charge Overtime: Report

Nov 1, 2013 9:09 AM CDT

DHS Workers Watch Netflix, Charge Overtime: Report

Dipping into 'candy bowl' cost department $8.7M a year

(Newser) - An Office of Special Counsel report has detailed a "profound and entrenched problem" at six Department of Homeland Security offices, where employees have been dipping into a "candy bowl" of unearned overtime money to boost their paychecks. The routine practice of claiming Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime—meant to compensate...

80% of Workers
Tied to Job—at Home

STUDY SAYS

Jul 3, 2012 6:02 AM CDT

80% of Workers Tied to Job—at Home

Extra time adds up to nearly an extra work day per week

(Newser) - Mobile devices are keeping huge numbers of workers chained to the office in their downtime, according to a study by Good Technology . Some 80% of workers polled by the company said they kept working after leaving the office mainly by answering calls and emails, and half of those said they...

Walmart
Slapped With
$4.8M Bill for
Unpaid Wages

May 2, 2012 8:07 AM CDT

Walmart Slapped With $4.8M Bill for Unpaid Wages

About 4,500 employees weren't paid for overtime

(Newser) - The Labor Department has ordered Walmart to pay $4.8 million in back wages to around 4,500 workers it short-changed between 2004 and 2007. Over that span, Walmart had refused to pay overtime to its vision-center managers and asset-protection coordinators, for some reason believing them exempt from federal regulations...

Second Group of Groupon Workers Suing for OT

More Groupon
Workers Suing
for Overtime

Sep 27, 2011 6:57 AM CDT

More Groupon Workers Suing for Overtime

This time, 50 employees allege they weren't paid overtime

(Newser) - Groupon employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company claiming unpaid overtime, the second such suit filed against the daily deals website in the past month. This time around, Groupon’s so-called “deal vetters”—a position that no longer exists—say they weren’t paid overtime...

Chicago Cop Sues for OT
for Checking Blackberry

Aug 14, 2010 4:12 PM CDT

Chicago Cop Sues for OT for Checking Blackberry

Case raises sticky smartphone concerns

(Newser) - A Chicago police sergeant is suing the city for overtime pay for all the times he checks his Blackberry while off duty, reports NPR . The case might help iron out (or further complicate) the rules governing the increasingly blurred lines between work and private life. The mayor scoffs at this...

NY Poised to Pass Nation's First Nanny Protection Law

Jun 3, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

NY Poised to Pass Nation's First Nanny Protection Law

Bill gives domestic workers overtime pay, weekly day off

(Newser) - New York is about to become the first state to recognize nannies and domestic workers as workers with rights. A bill passed by the state Senate this week guarantees full-time domestic workers overtime pay and one day off a week, as well as sick days and vacation days. It will...

Overtime Is Bad
for Your Heart

May 11, 2010 2:52 PM CDT

Overtime Is Bad for Your Heart

Study shows that working late could literally kill you

(Newser) - Have you ever joked that the hours at your job will kill you? Stop laughing: you could be right. Those who work 10 or more hours a day are 60% more likely to develop heart-related problems, according to a new study in the European Heart Journal. That correlation held true...

NFL May Rewrite OT Rules

Mar 6, 2010 11:38 AM CST

NFL May Rewrite OT Rules

If one team wins toss and kicks a field goal, other team gets the ball

(Newser) - NFL fans who hate the overtime rules have reason to hope. More often than not it seems, the team that wins the coin toss zips down the field and ends the game with a field goal. League owners are considering a revision to try to even things up: The game...

Saints Work OT, Earn
1st Super Bowl Berth

nfc championship

Jan 24, 2010 11:11 PM CST

Saints Work OT, Earn 1st Super Bowl Berth

Favre interception helps sink Vikings

(Newser) - The New Orleans Saints are heading to their first Super Bowl after battering Brett Favre and beating the Minnesota Vikings in overtime tonight, 31-28, on unheralded Garrett Hartley's 40-yard field goal. Favre threw away Minnesota's best chance to win, tossing an interception to Tracy Porter deep in New Orleans territory...

Employers Offer
More OT, Fewer New Jobs

green shoots

Nov 27, 2009 1:33 PM CST

Employers Offer More OT, Fewer New Jobs

Brightening economy results in more overtime, fewer new jobs

(Newser) - Manufacturers skeptical about economic improvement are hedging their bets and forgoing hiring in favor of scheduling overtime work to fill welcome new orders. The tactic may be working for now—employees surely aren’t complaining—but the phenomenon is likely to be short-lived. “Overtime is more costly,” an...