DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 12 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Employer Costs for Employee Compensation for the Regions - June 2025 * Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $39.94 per hour in the South to $56.67 in the Northeast in June 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In the other two regions, h  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Former Plant Supervisors Indicted for Discharging Wastes to Nashville Sewer System and Tampering with a Monitoring Device * A grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging two individuals for their alleged involvement with bypassing treatment processes and tampering with a monitoring device at a Nashville waste treatment facility. The indictment alleges that Randall Ray Stark, of Texas, and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * Interventional Pain Management Associates and Baxter Regional Medical Center to Pay $350,000 in EEOC Retaliation Lawsuit Resolves federal suit charging Arkansas clinic and hospital fired employee because she opposed discrimination *  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Interventional Pain Management Associates (IPMA), a Mountain Home, Arkansas pain management clinic, and Baxter Regional Medical Cen  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Employment Tax Fraud Scheme * A Tennessee man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to tax crimes and wire fraud for his role in a scheme to claim fraudulent refunds based on false COVID-19 employment tax credits. The following is according to court documents and statements made in court: Edward Zanes, of Kingsport, Tennessee, conspired with others to file false tax  more