Check pay policies for massive lawsuit threat–simple underpayment can quickly balloon

Make a small mistake in how you pay hourly employees, and the stakes can be quite high. Individually, a wage-and-hour claim may amount to just a few hundred dollars. But multiply an underpayment as small as $350 by 1,000 employees and now you’re looking at a $700,000 tab--that’s because courts routinely double unpaid wage awards in FLSA cases.