Rhode Island’s hourly minimum wage is to rise to $11.50 from $10.50 on Oct. 1.

France is to double the length of its paid paternity leave entitlement to 28 days and is to require new fathers to use at least seven of those days.

Plaintiffs in a wage suit against Medical Transportation Management Inc. were denied class certification after a D.C. federal court decided they hadn’t shown that common questions of law or fact or predominated over individual issues in the case.

Alabama extended tax filing deadlines for taxpayers in Hurricane Sally’s declared federal disaster area, the state revenue department said Sept. 23.

State unemployment agencies have borrowed $32 billion and counting from the U.S. Treasury to pay record-high jobless benefits claimed during the coronavirus pandemic. Repaying that debt is likely to involve raising the unemployment taxes that employers pay.

Paying federal employment taxes and filing reports to the Internal Revenue Service are among the many key duties of payroll professionals.