Earlier this month, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor recently rolled out what it probably thought was an awesome idea: an iPhone app that “allows employees to independently track the hours they work and determine the wages they believe they are owed.”

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