NU Online News Service, June 21, 2:10 p.m.
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 did not know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts said.
The bigger surprise is that the impacted workers also did not know the rules applied to them, according to David Bradford, executive vice president of New York-based Advisen.
For more information about employers at risk to become defendants in wage-and-hour suits and recent lawsuit statistics, see Who's At Risk For FLSA Suits in the Exclusives section of our website.
For more information on wage-and-hour coverage endorsements to employment practices liability insurance policies, see the cover story of this week's print magazine, and an NU website Exclusive giving specific information on coverage providers and their target markets.
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