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There are already plenty of good reasons why every prudent company should keep accurate time and attendance records. For one, it’s the law. As I’ve noted before, accurate records can protect your company from a number of risks. And without accurate time records, it’s impossible to pay your overtime-eligible employees correctly.

As of May 9, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has added yet another reason, with the launch of a free smartphone application designed to help employees easily track their own work hours and calculate their own pay.

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You may have noticed there are plenty of people on the Internet dispensing free advice on just about any topic you could imagine. Time and attendance is no exception. A big problem, of course, is that often you get what you pay for. Even worse, if you follow this bad time and attendance advice, it could end up costing you a lot of money.

Unfortunately, just because someone sounds authoritative, that doesn’t mean they have any idea what they’re talking about. Recently, I’ve come across several examples of people masquerading as “experts” but handing out perfectly terrible advice.

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