Two Gallup residents get wages paid after years in court and lawsuit against DWS

KRQE News 13— GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – After claiming they weren't paid for work they did at 505 Burgers in Farmington, a Gallup couple has received a payout after a settlement agreement. But the lengthy legal battle took more than five years – and a lawsuit against the state agency tasked with helping workers. “Persistence is the keyword. We didn’t []

Fortune—A 60-year-old worker in Texas says she’s dependent on apps that let her get paid early: ‘They get you hooked on having that money’. Between 2018 and 2020, transaction volume on wage-access apps tripled from $3.2 billion to $9.5 billion, according to Datos Insights.

Yahoo Finance—US manufacturing sector regresses in April; prices paid near two-year high. U.S. manufacturing contracted in April amid a decline in orders after briefly expanding in the prior month, while a measure of prices paid by factories for inputs approached a two-year high. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.2 last month from 50.3 in March, which was the highest and first reading above 50 since September 2022. A PMI reading above 50 indicates growth in the manufacturing sector, which accounts for 10.4% of the...

The Independent—Two-year-old boy dies after getting swept away in bounce house by wind. A two-year-old boy was killed, and another child was injured after a bounce house they were playing in was swept away by a strong gust of...