170518 Resource 147682 147762 147762 1180458258216 1180458258216 Controlled New Cause for Concern: State Overtime Compliance Litigation

Litigation is on the rise for state overtime compliance.

<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: "Trebuchet MS"">CCH Human Resources Management reports that claims of state overtime violations are increasing due to the attention that the new white-collar regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) received. The change caused many plaintiff&rsquo;s attorneys to focus their efforts on the differences between the federal and state requirements. Steven S. Greene, managing member of the law firm of Helms &amp; Greene, LLC, while speaking at WorldatWork's 2007 Conference and Exposition, stated that attorneys are exploiting the material differences between the federal and state standards, causing settlements and verdicts to soar.<p /></span></p><p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: "Trebuchet MS"">StaffScapes, a <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Colorado</place></state> based Professional Employer Organization (PEO), guides our clients through the complicated maze of human resource management, including state and federal labor law compliance. Please contact us at 303-466-7864 or <a href="mailto:info@staffscapes.com"><font color="#0033cc">info@staffscapes.com</font></a> to discuss what our services can do for you. <p /></span></p> 10 application/xml false compliance fair labor standards act federal FLSA labor law litigation overtime PEO professional employer organization state Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jstratton false true false false true 147682 blog blogsite/StaffScapes/web