Three Steps for Immunizing Your Company From Overtime Suits
Posted by Sean Rehder (Permalink) | 0 Comments | | Thursday, August 31, 2006


By taking a few simple precautions, companies can avoid falling prey to wage and hour lawsuits. By Alan L. Rupe

"If lawyers who represent employees against employers—plaintiffs’ attorneys—were rats in a maze, they would get to the cheese faster than a politician gets to a handshake.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers are maze-wise. They know how the system works. They know that if they can create factual issues of "he said, she said," throw in some "David and Goliath" pathos and skip past the trapdoors leading to legal issues, they will most likely get their client in front of a jury. And that leads to dollars in their pockets, either through settlement (because many employers would rather settle than go through a lengthy, painful trial) or through a substantial dollar award by a jury."

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