Walmart may be the most frequent defendant named in wage-and-hour lawsuits, but insurers and pharmaceutical companies are also caught up in a maze of rules they didn't know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts say.
The bigger surprise is that the impacted workers didn't know the rules applied to them, according to David Bradford, executive vice president of New York-based Advisen.
"There are so many different professions and job descriptions that in the past have been assumed to be exempt, and if you talked to people who were in those jobs, they would have emphatically proclaimed that they were in exempt positions themselves," Mr. Bradford said. "They weren't pursuing any opportunities for overtime pay."
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