January proved to be a particularly important month for many states this year. That was the month that new minimum wage hikes took place—in fact 20 states saw adjustments in their employees' base earnings. On state, Arkansas increased its minimum wage from $7.25 an hour up to $7.50 per hour.Shanna Tippen was one of...

Ronald Rice was excited to share the news of his wife's pregnancy with his co-workers and employer in January 2012. Within days of his announcement, however, his work relationship turned sour.Suddenly, Rice was assigned a multitude of extra duties that were outside his job description. He endured the extra workload for six months until...

John Padgett, head of the Georgia Republican Party, is facing allegations that he engaged in racial discrimination against an employee of one of his privately owned firms. Vanessa Dewberry, a former manager of Southeast Ambulance Inc., run by Padgett's firm, filed a federal lawsuit against the politician in Atlanta.Dewberry had a meeting last February...

The home furnishing chain, Bed, Bath & Beyond has yet another wage and hour lawsuit filed against them, alleging misclassification, failure to pay overtime, and failure to pay to double-time wages. Joshua, a department manager at the company's Houston store, became the lead plaintiff in this new lawsuit.He was classified as a salaried, exempt...

Leonardo DiCaprio's “Wolf of Wall Street” depicts powerful men in high places living a life of sex and drugs. It seems a Humphrey's County, Tennessee superintendent saw himself as one of DiCaprio's men. Jimmy Long is now being sued by a bookkeeper for the school district, Teresa Smith.Smith alleges in her suit that Long...