Wage and Hour Law Guide

The Employment Law Advisory Network is pleased to announce the availability of its newest software product designed especially for employers, the Wage and Hour Law Guide. It has been endorsed by the Texas Association of Business, the Texas Association of Staffing, the Texas Network of Youth Services, the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Travis County Bar Association, and other trade associations. Written by longtime employment law attorney William T. (Tommy) Simmons, this online reference work covers all of the most important wage and hour law issues that every employer must know about. A tutorial and reference work all in one, the Wage and Hour Law Guide is the most comprehensive source of commentary, statutes, regulations, court cases, and administrative guidance that has ever been available in interactive software format. The following list of features gives an idea of the scope of this software reference work:

• Extensive commentary, including many practical tips, on the full range of state and federal wage and hour law issues, including coverage, exemptions, pay and benefit agreements, leave time, minimum wage, deductions from pay, overtime, hours worked, compensatory time, audits and investigations, remedies, and enforcement by the courts
  
• Full text of the major wage and hour statutes, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Texas Payday Law, as well as the complete wage and hour and FMLA regulations of the U.S. Department of Labor, the complete regulations on the Equal Pay Act from the EEOC, and the complete Texas Payday Law rules from the TWC
  
• Substantial portions of the Department of Labor's Field Operations Handbook
  
• The most important DOL administrative opinion letters are reproduced in whole or in part
  
• Important court decisions on various points of wage and hour law

The most useful feature of the Wage and Hour Law Guide is its organization. Instead of presenting the extensive body of wage and hour law in huge text blocks, the information is logically organized into small topics that present the needed information about particular issues in quantities that do not overwhelm the user. The topics are extensively hyper-linked and cross-indexed, so the user can quickly and easily navigate from topic to topic and back again as various questions present themselves. With its point-and-click interface, the Wage and Hour Law Guide can make quick work out of what would be an exhausting multi-volume search with traditional information sources. When researching a topic, the user can click on a statute and go straight to the actual law, then take a look at the relevant regulations; many topics include specific references to applicable administrative guidance and court decisions. For attorneys and wage and hour professionals, this guide is an indispensable research tool, enabling fast searches for specific topics and regulations. For employers of all sizes, the guide helps make a very technical body of law more understandable, with many nuts-and-bolts suggestions for dealing with thorny wage and hour issues.

The Wage and Hour Law Guide contains a detailed index and a full-text search facility that allows the user to type a word to be searched for and get a list of topics, statutes, regulations, and other sources containing that word; clicking any item in the list takes the user immediately to the item in question. The software also features a comprehensive set of navigational aids, including not only buttons for browsing back and forth, but also "Back" and "History" features that allow the user to retrace a path and quickly relocate useful topics that have already been visited

For more information, please contact the author, William T. (Tommy) Simmons, attorney at law, at 512-388-4529 or 1-877-454-3526 (phone), or 512-388-4533 (fax), or else send e-mail to .

The Wage and Hour Law Guide is compatible with Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, and XP. Versions for Mac OS 7, 8, 9, and OS X, as well as Linux and Unix variants, are also available. When ordering, please specify diskettes or CD-ROM and the type of operating system on your computer.

Cost: $119.95, which includes applicable sales tax and shipping and handling. The second and subsequent copies are $104.95 each, which includes applicable sales tax and shipping and handling.

Rebate for TAB, TAS, TNOYS, and TCBA members: $10.00 for each copy purchased upon proof of membership.

To order by credit card over the Internet:
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or by phone:
Call toll-free: 1-877-454-3526

To order by mail:
Please send a check or U.S. money order directly to:
Employment Law Advisory Network
P.O. Box 84
Round Rock, TX 78680

On all orders, please include your e-mail address, mailing address, and phone/fax numbers. Please allow one week for shipping.

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