A legal action filed by a former cheerleader for a California professional football team has created enough attention to initiate an investigation into the situation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

There wasn't much comment from a DOL representative because of the ongoing nature of the case, according to news source SFGate. The lawsuit itself is conditionally a class action, including all other members of the team's cheer squad, which numbers about 40 performers in all.

A second member of the cheer group has recently joined the suit, a separate article from SFGate reported. This may open the door for more current and former employees of the team to participate.

The ex-employee alleged in the suit that the team's administration set a schedule where the cheerleaders' fixed pay dropped below the federal and state minimum wage levels, and that fines related to performance and appearance also brought pay rates below the acceptable minimum. The Fair Labor Standards Act fixes the federal minimum wage at $7.25 per hour. A California state law also requires workers be paid at least twice a month, which is supposedly not the case for the team's pay structure.

Proper hours and pay tracking is much easier when organizations use employee management software.

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