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05/12/11

Filed under: General
Posted by: RPLaw Firm @ 4:03 pm

Well employees can now start tracking all hours of work performed for their employers on their smartphones or iphones by using  an app.  There is now an app for everything, even one that helps you when lawsuits.  The Department of Labor recently announced that is “to help employees independently track the hours they work and determine the wages they are owed.”

This application will assist in the investigation and presentation of evidence of employers failing to maintain proper and accurate time records of their employees.  This will also help employee/plaintiff attorneys across the country verify and support the unpaid wages violations.   DOL is in the process of creating other “apps” that can assist with FLSA compliance for both employees and employers.

FLSA is a federal law that generally requires employers to pay overtimewages of time and a half (1½) to certain employees for work performed in excess of

forty (40) hours per week. This may include employees who work forced to work

“off the clock” to those who were told they are “exempt” but truly are not.Generally, if an employer knows or reasonably should know that covered employees

are working more than forty (40) hours per week, those employees should probably

be paid overtime.After the amendments to FLSA, several employers mistakenly believed that if

their employees were paid a “salary” instead of “by the hour” then the employee was

“exempt;” and therefore, the employees were not entitled to overtime wages. Salary

wages alone will not be enough to deny an employee from overtime compensation.

Consideration has to be given to the specific job duties performed by the employee

and the amount of wages before denial of overtime wages is appropriate.