Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Learn wage + hour math — 2.5 hours could cost you $42 million

Two costly cautionary tales that made recent headlines should send a chill up your spine and then running to double and triple check your wage and hour compliance.

In one case, an Indiana trial court has awarded $42.4 million to current and former Indiana state employees who were required to work 40-hour workweeks from 1973 until 1993, even though other state employees holding the same positions were required only to work 37.5-hour workweeks for the same pay.