The healthcare industry faces a lot of challenges when it comes to compliance issues, and especially, payroll. Ask any healthcare practice for their biggest expense, and you’re likely to hear overtime costs in response. Overtime is almost always one of the top-ranked expenditures, and when you factor in incorrect overtime configurations, it’s even more costly.

Yes, employees who don’t turn in their timesheets can be disciplined; provided that the discipline doesn’t involve withholding, reducing, or delaying pay, as employers are always required to pay for all hours worked. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the employer is responsible for ...