Under the terms of the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers have numerous obligations. In addition to paying covered workers a minimum wage and time-and-a-half overtime compensation, employers also have an obligation to keep to an array of records related to their workers, the time they worked, and the compensation they received. Failing to keep these records can be very damaging to an employer. For answers to questions about the FLSA’s recordkeeping requirement, get advice from an experienced Atlanta wage-and-hour lawyer.
The FLSA recordkeeping troubles of a steel mill in South Alabama began after a group of its employees discovered what they believed to be a “series of wage-and-hour violations.” Those alleged transgressions included not paying the workers for all the hours they worked and shorting them on overtime compensation.
The case was a complicated matter, implicating things like multiple regular rates of pay that “changed based on the shift worked, the way time was rounded, the level of work, and the company’s monthly incentive plan.” (The employees’ overtime claims hinged, in part, on whether or not the employer assigned the correct regular rate to all the employees’ hours.)