As an attorney, I have represented countless hardworking employers.
These employers took similar paths: They took risks, followed their dreams, started businesses, and created jobs. But by creating jobs, these employers would be required to comply with a labyrinth of complex wage-and-hour laws. Worse, not only are these laws complex, the monetary penalties for even a minute violation of wage-and-hour laws are exorbitant.
Indeed, even if employers mistakenly violate wage-and-hour laws, the monetary penalties are often so exorbitant that employers have no choice but to close their businesses forever.
Even worse, not only are the employers’ businesses at risk, but employers, supervisors, and managers can be held personally liable for wage-and-hour violations.
Filing wage-and-hour lawsuits has become big business for plaintiffs’ attorneys, allowing plaintiffs’ attorneys to enrich themselves off the backs of hardworking employers.
Frustrated and outraged, I partnered with others to offer an employee time-tracking web application that functions as an in-house counsel, assisting employers to comply with wage-and-hour laws thereby preventing plaintiffs’ attorneys from enriching themselves by filing wage-and-hour lawsuits.