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Appeals Court Upholds Employer’s OT Calculations: What Payroll Got Right

The Seventh Circuit held that a Wisconsin employer properly included certain pay differentials and incentive premiums in employees’ regular rate of pay before calculating the overt...

Overtime Pay Violations: When Employers Improperly Deny Overtime Compensation

Overtime pay violations represent among the most common wage and hour issues affecting American workers. Various employer practices including misclassification, off-the-clock work,...

This bill would double overtime pay, but not every worker would benefit

A worker earning $25 an hour who logs 10 hours of overtime a week is paid $37.50 an hour for that time right now. A bill introduced in the Senate this month would push that same ho...

Seventh Circuit’s ‘Extra Pay’ Decision Confirms FLSA Standards Apply to Wisconsin Employer Overtime Calculations

Payroll Scheme to Avoid Overtime Backfires: $457K Payout

What happens when an employee works 50 hours per week, but payroll makes it look like 25 hours for each of two companies to avoid overtime premiums? That was the setup allegedly de...

Which States Allow Deductions for Overtime Pay in 2026?

The federal deductions for up to $25,000 in tipped income, for a similar amount of overtime pay, and for some auto loan payments have not been widely adopted by states. As of late...

IRS Releases Updated W-2 Guidance for Reporting Qualified Overtime

Employers have new details on how to report qualified overtime compensation on 2026 Forms W-2. On Aug. 6, the IRS issued updated guidance in Fact Sheet FS-2026-13, which supersedes...

How Does a Clawback Clause Affect Overtime Calculations? What Payroll Should Know

Not every sign-on bonus belongs in the overtime calculation – and a recent federal case out of Virginia shows why. A fired employee filed a lawsuit against his former employer, cla...

MTA already blew overtime budget by $176M — as 1K workers raked in more from extra pay than base salaries

The cash-hungry MTA spent nearly $764 million on overtime in the first six months of the year, putting it on pace to break the record of nearly $1.5 billion set in 2025, according...

IRS updates overtime deduction FAQs, adds reporting details

Workers generally may claim the overtime pay deduction only for amounts reported on Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, beginning in tax year 2026, according to updated IRS FAQs. The...

IRS Sheds Light on Taxation for Tips and Overtime

The Evolution of Qualified Overtime Compensation Deductions: Analyzing IRS Fact Sheet FS-2026-13 and Its Practical Impli...

Internal Revenue Service, Fact Sheet FS-2026-13, “Updates to Questions and Answers About the New Deduction for Qualified Overtime Compensation” (August 2026) The enactment o...

New IRS overtime rules are now in effect: What restaurants should know

New "No Tax on Overtime" rules require employers to include eligible overtime on workers’ W-2 forms.

Fifth Circuit Allows Employer’s Hybrid Pay Plan for Exempt Oilfield Workers

An Ohio Transit Worker Made Over $200,000 in Overtime Pay—Only the CEO Made More in 2025. People Are Split on How to Fee...

Understaffing, union rules, and an unbeatable work ethic allowed a vehicle technician to more than triple his base salary.

UPS Freight Diary:

Now, i have to say that: 1) i had to take the entire month of April off do deal with some family issues. So the yearly gross would have been 43-44K-ish instead. 2) i have another...

New Jersey Minimum Wage Law May Have Broader Implications for Fire Departments

In this special edition of Fire Law VLOG, Bill Maccarone and Curt discuss an important development out of New Jersey with significant implications for firefighter and police overti...

North Carolina Firefighter Challenges Volunteer Fire Department’s Use of FLSA 7(k) Overtime Exemption

A paid North Carolina firefighter has filed suit against his fire department claiming that because the department is a private nonprofit corporation, it is not eligible to use the...

Wage Law Still Runs on a Punch Clock. Work Doesn’t.

An employee closes her laptop at six p.m. After dinner, she answers a few work emails from the couch. A manager texts her a question after the kids are asleep. She responds when th...

Do we have to pay nonexempt employees when we close due to severe weather?

Question:  Do we have to pay nonexempt employees when we close due to severe weather? Answered by the HR Experts:  When you close due to severe weather, nonexempt employees (those...

Overtime costs at national agri-body exceeded €1.1m in 2025

Teagasc paid overtime to 138 staff in 2025, almost unchanged from the previous year, with the highest individual payment at the national body also lower than in 2024. The highest a...

Overtime lifts average pay for Gardaí to €95,000 on an annual basis

Carthage tables overtime changes that could cost officers $2,000 a year

A proposal to change overtime rules for Carthage, Missouri, police officers and firefighters is on hold after a lengthy City Council debate.Council members voted Tuesday night to t...

It Pays to Work For the SF Sheriff's Office, Like Over $800K Per Year for Some

Some of the city's highest paid employees are part of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office, with overtime pay driving overall compensation well into the high six figures for dozens o...