A credit card processing sales representative may be owed continuing commissions on certain services he sold before resigning even though his former employer and American Express altered their relationship after he left, a federal judge in New Jersey ruled.

Servers and bartenders at barbecue chain Famous Dave’s of America Inc. won class certification of their claim that the restaurant failed to properly notify employees of its intent to use the tipped wage credit, but failed to convince a federal judge other wage and overtime claims were common to the class.

Hawaii’s annual reconciliation form for withholding was replaced with a similar annual return, released Sept. 22, that does not require reconciliation, the state tax department said.

The United Kingdom is to begin a second wage-replacement program Nov. 1, the day after its first program ends, the country’s treasury said Sept. 24.

A U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator who was misclassified as exempt from overtime pay is entitled to compensatory damages and back pay but not additional “liquidated damages” because of the agency’s good-faith error, the Federal Circuit said Thursday.

A federal court has upheld a magistrate judge’s recommendation not to compel arbitration of individual claims in a lawsuit over Salt Creek Midstream’s alleged failure to fully compensate pipeline inspectors staffed by Kestrel Field Services.