Holly Krier

She has over 30 years of experience in data analysis and assists in a wide variety of class action and individual plaintiff matters involving wage and hours issues and allegations of age, race, and gender discrimination.

Ms. Krier has considerable experience with cases involving the correct calculation of the regular rate of pay. Additionally, she has assisted Fortune 500 companies with the proper identification and payment of meal and rest break premiums.

Ms. Krier has assisted several large companies with audits of their managers’ time punch editing practices and alerted those companies to managers who may have improperly edited employee time records to reduce overtime payments or added meals or rest breaks to time punch data to avoid paying meal and rest break premiums.

Ms. Krier has extensive experience with the analysis of diverse types of unusual measures of time data. Holly has combined badge swipe and login authentication data with time punch data in call center cases to measure potential time worked off-the-clock. Holly also has experience combining GPS data with time punch data to analyze when and where employees working in the field may have taken breaks.

Along with identifying and quantifying the issues above for clients, Ms. Krier calculates potential damages and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) exposures that could arise from these issues.

Prior to joining CRA, Ms. Krier was a director in the Los Angeles office of Welch Consulting. While at Welch Consulting, Holly worked with one of the firm’s sister companies, Unicon Research, where she assisted with the analysis of defaults on FHA-insured mortgages; Holly was the lead programmer on the initial development of the FHA Total Score.