BOISE, Idaho–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In May 2011, The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released an iPhone application for employees to independently track time. The first-ever app designed for a smartphone by the government agency, the DOL time sheet app allows employees to track hours worked in contrast to their employers time tracking system, a critical and often contested element in wage and labor disputes.
“Unfortunately, while designed with good intentions to protect employees, the DOL time sheet app will create substantial problems for employers”
“Unfortunately, while designed with good intentions to protect employees, the DOL time sheet app will create substantial problems for employers,” says Matt Rissell, president and CEO of TSheets, based in Boise, Idaho.
TSheets, a private sector time tracking technology firm with over 40,000 users worldwide, now offers a DOL-compliant smartphone application that tracks, manages and reports time to protect both employees and employers. It also improves on the capabilities of the DOL technology to better address the nationwide nuances of labor law.
“This new DOL time sheet iPhone application is a game changer for employers and employees everywhere,” says Rissell in a recent blog post. “However, even with the best intentions, we think this new app is going to create an onslaught of problems and a landslide of litigation. With two separate time tracking systems in play, how often will employee hours realistically align? And why spend taxpayer money to develop an app that’s going to create a wedge between employees and employers?”
Well before the DOL release, TSheets had already developed a mobile time tracking application designed for iPhone and Android smartphones as well as other platforms. In contrast to the DOL technology, the TSheets time sheet offers an undeletable log that tracks and accounts for not only elapsed time, but who checked in when and even where with GPS time stamping.
“No longer can an employer dishonestly change someone’s timesheet without it being accounted for. And no longer can an employer be vulnerable to an illegitimate accusation by an employee for changing their timesheet,” notes Rissell. “With technology like this, it’s all tracked. Period.”
Instead of allowing the new DOL timesheet to create a dissonance in the work place, employers should install a flexible, user-friendly system that protects both sides of the paycheck, with existing DOL-compliant solutions like TSheets.
TSheets is a fast-paced time tracking technology firm based in Boise, Idaho with over 40,000 worldwide users. The company designs time keeping solutions that empower business leaders with more accurate, mobile and flexible ways to track, manage and report employee time.