Archive for March 2020

The Department of Labor (DOL) recovered a record $322 million in back wages in FY2019, following a $304 million record-breaking year in FY2018 – all while cutting over 100,000 enforcement hours. And this year, DOL plans to hire dozens of additional investigators. Is your company prepared for a DOL Fair Labor Standards Act investigation or,…

Should exempt employees track their time? Under the FLSA, exempt employees are not required to track their work hours, but an employer can require them to do so. An employer may want to have exempt employees track hours in order to bill services to clients or, to have a record if an exemption is challenged,…

We kick off 2020 with the DOL’s New Overtime Rule in effect as of January 1, 2020. As DOL enforcement reaches an all-time high, employees (and their lawyers) will be scrutinizing vulnerable positions for potential FLSA (and state law) violations more than ever. Former DOL WHD Administrator and ComplianceHR VP Tammy McCutchen together with ComplianceHR…