A prominent timeshare company could face nonpayment litigation from a large group of employees in a lawsuit alleging improper compensation for employee time worked across a multi-year period.

One former staff member said that the business paid its timeshare vacation home salespeople an hourly base salary along with commission on completed sales, according to local news station WFTV. The worker claimed that the organization required time to be put in off the clock, violating one of the basic tenets of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Even though the employee behind the suit wasn't compensated on an hourly basis, the non-exempt nature of the position means he would still qualify for overtime pay if working more than 40 hours in a week. The law firm handling the case said that up to 2,000 previous and current workers at the business could qualify for inclusion in the legal action.

Even if each one of those employees are owed just a few hours of pay at one-and-one-half times their average hourly rates under the FLSA, the financial liability is still significant.

Companies that have non-exempt workers have to account for the possibility of paying overtime. Employee management software helps organizations keep track of their payment obligations and maintain work-related records.

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