This is your guide to a rapidly developing area of law. Use it as a handbook for counseling your clients about compliance with complex wage and hour rules or as a primer for litigating a wage and hour case whether you represent the employer or the employee.

• Covers both state and federal law
• Explains meal and rest break rules, a frequent source of litigation and liability
• Helps avoid misclassification problems
• Offers advice for workplace policies and best practices
• Explains state and federal agency proceedings
• Provides in-depth treatment of the mediation process
• Assists with litigation strategy whether you represent the plaintiff or defendant