During a recent 12-month period, more than 7,750 Fair Labor Standards Act wage-and-hour lawsuits were filed in federal courts, an increase of almost 10 percent over the preceding 12 months. Wage and hour lawsuits are attractive to plaintiffs and, perhaps more importantly, their attorneys.

When employees win these cases they are typically entitled to recover their attorneys' fees and court costs. In wage-and-hour cases attorneys' fees can go into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more! A single lawsuit may include claims on behalf of many employees or former employees. That means the combined damage award for all employees represented in the lawsuit can be staggeringly high.

For all those reasons, employers may be more inclined to settle these cases. The good news is that there are some simple ways for employers to reduce the risk of wage-and-hour suits.

Attend this seminar to hear different ways to avoid these types of claims in your workplace.