Wage & Hour Audit Tips Library

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Week 1 - Beware The Rule of the Repeating Eight

Week 2 - Use Audit Trails To Flag Potential Timekeeping Issues

Week 3 - Pay Heed to the Executive Exemption's "Two or More Employees" Requirement

Week 4 - Concentrate on Your Concentration of Exempt Employees

Week 5 - Outside v. Inside Sales -- Who Is Exempt?

Week 6 - Remote Access For Salaried Exempt Employees – A Salary Basis Risk

Week 7 - Taking Advantage of the Safe Harbor Provision for Improper Deductions from an Exempt Employee's Salary

Week 8 - Rounding, Clock-In / Out Windows, And Tardiness Policies: A Potentially Dangerous Combination

Week 9 - Walk Your Employees' Walk To The Time Clock

Week 10 - Exercise Discretion in Your Use of the Administrative Exemption

Week 11 - Trust But Verify: Authentication of Pay Records Reduces Risk of Wage Claims

Week 12 - If it Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck . . . (Or, How to tell an Independent Contractor from an Employee)

Week 13 - All Work and No Pay Makes Jack a Litigious Intern

Week 14- Avoiding "Donning and Doffing" Off-the-Clock Challenges

Week 15 - Many Bonus Payments Require Additional Overtime Pay

Week 16 - Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Are Your Field Employees Working From Home Before They Go?

Week 17 - Ensuring Time Worked Counts Towards the Proper Work Week

Week 18 - Determining Whether Training Time Is Compensable

Week 19 - Making Sure Your Professionals Are Really Professionals

Week 20 - Tip Off Employees to the Tip Credit

 
Consolidated Tip Digest (all 20 Tips)

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