Wage & Hour Compliance Assessment

How The Service Works

A Complete Assessment For Complete Compliance

Our experts, including former Department of Labor investigators, have extensive experience with employment law. They'll take the time to give you a thorough and effective assessment of your wage and hour practices by:

• Interviewing key stakeholders.
• Reviewing job descriptions and employee classifications for exempt, non-exempt, temporary workers and contractors.
• Auditing payroll and time-keeping records, time off/leave, and child labor compliance.
• Reviewing your existing policies or developing new ones that include your procedures for managing work hours, working off the clock, whether meals and breaks are paid, and how deductions are handled.
• Providing insight into industry best practices and helping you establish effective procedures and processes.

Finally, we'll give you a detailed report of our findings and recommendation for how to maintain compliance and mitigate your risk exposure.

Who Needs To Comply?

• Any employer with two or more employees and $500,000 or more per year in revenue. Federal contractors may have additional compliance obligations.

Why is Compliance Critical?

• The FLSA is enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor.
• FLSA cases have increased 438% since 2000.
• In 2015, the agency collected nearly $175 million from employers for FLSA violations.
• In 2013, nearly 270,000 employees were awarded back wages. Payment of back wages typically runs into hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
• Over the last decade, the Department of Labor has received an average of 27,350 complaints per year.
• DOL has added 350 more investigators since 2009, with plans to hire 300 new investigators starting in 2015.
• Numerous well-known national companies have been involved in wage and hour lawsuits in recent years.
• The most common violations include a failure to record all hours worked and failure to pay overtime.

Why J. J. Keller?

J. J. Keller has over 60 years of experience helping organizations assess and improve their compliance. Every day, our internal team of regulatory specialists researches HR-related regulations, reviews new or potential legislation, writes industry white papers, creates our widely-utilized HR compliance manuals and answers customer questions about HR regulatory compliance.

Resources

• J. J. Keller HR Consulting Brochure (PDF)
• Wage & Hour Compliance Assessment Fact Sheet (PDF)