A former Chicago Public Schools principle was indicted on fraud charges Wednesday for allegedly scheming to falsely obtain overtime pay, according to officials.
Sarah Jackson Abedelal was charged in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, which said she allegedly carried out a fraud scheme from 2018 to 2019 while serving as principle of Joseph Brennemann Elementary School in the city's Uptown neighborhood.
Calif. top court: workers who miss breaks entitled to premium pay | Reuters
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(Reuters) - The California Supreme Court has ruled that employees who work through meal and rest breaks must be paid overtime premiums and other nondiscretionary compensation for those periods under state law, settling an issue that has divided state and federal courts.
Did Your Business Pay Break Premiums AND Bonuses?
In Ferra v. Loews Hollywood Hotel, LLC , the California Supreme Court rejected the longstanding view that meal and rest break premiums are paid at the employee’s base rate, rather than at the more complicated regular rate of pay used to calculate overtime premiums.
In 2001, as a disincentive to perceived meal and rest break avoidance, the California Legislature and the Industrial Welfare Commission introduced a penalty for the failure to provide recovery periods, i.e. , meal and rest breaks.
Infinity Healthcare Gets Overtime Pay, 401(k) Fee Suit Trimmed
A physician assistant who sued Wisconsin medical provider Infinity Healthcare Inc. over retirement plan fees and overtime wages saw her proposed class suit narrowed on Friday, when a federal judge ruled she lacked standing to bring ERISA claims.
Amanda Lange didn't invest in any of the actively managed retirement funds challenged by her lawsuit, nor did she invest any funds that paid the record-keeping fees she claims are excessive, Judge James D. Peterson of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin held.
» New Overtime Rules for Agricultural Workers
Mental Health Co. Illegally Interrogated Workers, NLRB Says - Law360
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Hot Job, Low Pay: What Utah is Doing To Recruit & Keep Wildland Firefighters
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah —It's a hot job: out in the heat, battling forest fires. Wildland firefighting is so hot, the Department of Labor lists it as one of the top 20 fastest-growing jobs. It's expected to see 24% growth from 2019 to 2029.
But it's a job fewer people want to do. Utah fire officials told KSL TV they used to have lists of people excited to sign up to be a wildland firefighter. Those days are gone.
Cops Are Getting Paid More Despite Calls To Defund The Police | NewsOne
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , the 2020 median salary for a police officer was $67,290 – more than one-third higher than the national median of $48,769 for all occupations.
Although there is a great deal of variation across the nation's roughly 18,000 police departments , the agency also reports that salaries for police have largely climbed in the past five years – from an 8.8% increase in Mississippi, the state that overall pays its police the least, to a 21%
Week Ahead in Employment: July 19, 2021 | Reuters
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NEW: You may remember my thread last week on the connection I made between the demolition of a former CPS building… https://t.co/dWSY5uWDTp evanFmoore (from South Side, Chicago ) Wed Jul 14 16:27:05 +0000 2021
NEW: A federal grand jury has accused a former Chicago Public Schools principal of scheming to collect overtime pay… https://t.co/3UM4ejHxbp Suntimes (from Chicago, IL) Wed Jul 14 18:01:11 +0000 2021
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