Workers in Mississippi's healthcare industry have cleaned up in overtime pay over the last five years, according to the Jackson Clarion Ledger.

A group of Ohio state lawmakers is crafting a bill that could redefine how employees at small businesses in the state can be paid, the Mansfield News-Journal reports.

Small business owners have through the end of the day on Monday, January 31, to file Form 1099s for independent contractors

California has been subject to one of the worst statewide unemployment rates in the country. However, there may finally be some good news for hopeful jobseekers in the Sacramento region, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Tight state budgets nationwide have affected the ability for college and university professors to receive annual increases.

The city of Nitro, West Virginia, endured a significant payroll glitch when officials accidentally overdrew the city's payroll account earlier this week, the Charleston Gazette reports.

The Internal Revenue Service has ramped up its case against an executive in San Antonio, Texas, who is accused of pilfering nearly $66 million through an elaborate payroll tax scheme, KENS-TV reports.

Guards for the Allegheny County Jail accumulated more than double the budgeted amount in overtime pay during 2009, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Millions of resumes have been sent to countless companies nationwide as unemployed workers hope to take advantage of improving economic conditions.