NEW YORK — McDonald’s Corp. more than tripled the pay packages last year for its new CEO Don Thompson and the man he replaced, Jim Skinner. The pay increases from the world’s biggest hamburger chain came during a challenging time ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economic recovery hasn’t felt like one even for people who managed to find new jobs after being laid off. Most of them have had to settle for less pay. The Labor Department says in a report ...

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WASHINGTON — A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Monday weighed a potentially costly challenge to the pharmaceutical industry’s practice of not paying overtime to its sales representatives. The justices questioned whether the federal law governing overtime pay should apply to ...

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NEW YORK — Despite retiring as CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. in August, Ivan Seidenberg earned more in 2011 than he did in the last two full years of work. According to an analysis of a Monday regulatory filing from ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Senate rejected a floor amendment to freeze judges’ salaries at current levels Monday night as it cleared the way for final passage of a 3 percent pay raise over three years — an increase of up to ...

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WASHINGTON — In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years. ...

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A U.S. division of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG says it will pay $99 million to settle a class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for U.S. sales representatives. Attorney David Sanford says the case involves about 7,700 current and former sales representatives ...

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A poultry-plant operator must pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and taking off protective gear before and after their workday, but not before and after their lunch breaks, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

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Lawyers for several online travel companies and three local governments were back in federal court Wednesday, with both sides asking the judge to grant their motions for summary judgment. Much of the argument in U.S. District Court in Baltimore focused ...

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Baltimore, state mourn Schaefer William Donald Schaefer, Baltimore’s former mayor and Maryland’s former governor and comptroller, died Monday at 89. He will lie in repose Monday at the State House in Annapolis and Tuesday at Baltimore City Hall. His funeral will ...

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