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Wage and hour law has certainly been top interest the last few weeks. In my last blog I wrote about the Department of Labor hiring 250 new wage and hour investigators. At the same more than 700 people registered for our educational Wage and Hour webinars. And our very happy sales director Todd Hotham informed me this morning that last month 24 dealerships signed up for our online HotlinkHR software which is specifically designed to help avoid the most common HR and Wage and Hour Law mistakes.
Fact is that employers today are highly vulnerable with the increased awareness by workers of their rights, the complexity of wage and hour law (Fair Labor Standards Act) and the stated goal by the Department of Labor of increased enforcement. In fact, both webinar speakers, leading labor lawyers John Boggs of Fine, Boggs & Perkins, and Jim Hendricks of Ford & Harrison, empasized that Wage and hour litigation — specifically FLSA overtime collective action — far outpaces employment discrimination class action filings. In fact, there are more wage and hour lawsuits pending in the federal courts than all other employment claims combined.
I’d like to hear your feedback on this topic: are wage and hour law and methods to migitate associated risks surfacing to be a top priority?
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Tags: Department of Labor, FLSA, Ford & Harrison, HotlinkHR, Jim Hendricks, Todd Hotham