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Labor/Employment

Jan. 6, 2007

Audit Thy Work Force

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Mary C. Dollarhide - Wage-and-hour suits are not going away, so employers should conduct their own audits to prevent their workers from being misclassified.

Employment Column

By Mary C. Dollarhide
     
      Despite years of wage-and-hour class action litigation, many employers continue to take the ostrich approach to the classification of their workforce, burying their heads in the sand and hoping for these lawsuits to go away. Unfortunately for employers, wage-and-hour suits are not going away, in fact they are becoming more complicated and costly.
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