The HR Mistake That Hits Harder After 15 Employees #WageAndHourLaw

20 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short interview-style YouTube segment (host: Chrissy Myers) discussing HR compliance pitfalls that emerge as small businesses grow. The speakers flag wage-and-hour law as a primary, often-overlooked issue that becomes urgent once a business moves past roughly 15–20 employees, and note that questions about overtime, comp time, and vacation can arise even when only a few non-family employees are paid.

Questions this video answers

Around 15–20 employees (speakers cite this range as the point when many wage-and-hour questions arise).

The guest suggests wage-and-hour issues can be impactful even with one or two paid non-family employees (quote: 'I think it's two employees, maybe one or two employees').

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Tell me more about some of those tasks that tend to sneak up on owners and office managers once they cross that 15 to 20 line. You said you know, policies, procedures. But what are some of those other sneaky tasks on the compliance side where they're like I had no idea.
Usually the big one is wage and hour law, which is impactful immediately really when you have a business, it hits you. I think it's two employees, maybe one or two employees. But we don't think about it. Maybe we have family members and we're not concerned. Maybe we brought in friends to help us and they're just taking 500 bucks a week and they're happy and it's all good. But when you start building more of a workforce, people start asking questions about things like overtime or comp time or vacation time and you don't maybe you don't have the answers. Yeah, that is a huge, huge red flag.