Timeout! Guidance for Employers amid Kronos Outage and Best Practices to Ensure Compliance

On December 11, the Ultimate Kronos Group sent a notice to its customers of “issues impacting the availability” of its services which would take “at least several days” to resolve, leaving many employers scrambling to figure out how to make payroll, keep track of employees’ schedules and time worked, and maintain compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws.