As a business owner, you likely do everything you can to discourage employees from stealing from your business.

Increasingly, however, employees are applying the same scrutiny to employers by filing so-called wage theft lawsuits against employers who fail to properly compensate them for their work. These lawsuits, including recent suits against large employers such as McDonalds and Walmart supplier Schneider, typically involve violations of minimum wage and overtime laws, reports The New York Times.

How can you stay clear of a potential wage theft lawsuit? Here are five tips:

To learn more about your obligations to your employees under state and federal employment law, check out FindLaw’s Learn About the Law section on Employment Law.

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Related Resources:

  • Do You Have to Give Your Employees Lunch Breaks? (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
  • Independent Contractor vs Employee: IRS Cracks Down (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
  • Wage Theft? AT&T Lawsuit About Pay for Overtime (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)
  • Employees Sue Mario Batali Over Waiters’ Tips (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)

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