The Internal Revenue Service has awarded new contracts to three private-sector collection agencies to track down overdue tax debts.

Florida’s hourly minimum wage is to rise to $10 from $8.65 on Sept. 30, according to an updated poster that was issued Sept. 21 by the Department of Economic Opportunity.

A new Iowa online portal is to allow business filers to make tax payments and file tax returns starting in November, with withholding among the first tax types to be supported, the state revenue department said Sept. 20.

Puerto Rico’s hourly minimum wage is to rise to $8.50 on Jan. 1, 2022, under a bill (P.C. 338) (Spanish) that was signed Sept. 21 by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia (New Progressive Party), according to a Tweet that was posted to the governor’s official Twitter page.

A group of Valentino USA Inc. employees can’t proceed as a certified collective in their Fair Labor Standards lawsuit alleging the luxury fashion brand misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.

The Chinese city of Shenzhen increased its maximum housing fund contribution base to 34,860 yuan (U.S. $5,391.19), according to a notice (Chinese) released on June 21, 2021, by the Shenzhen Housing Provident Fund Management Center.