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Avoiding FLSA Legal Landmines: How Employers Can Avoid Penalties & Back Pay Liabilities Training Class |
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Avoiding FLSA Legal Landmines: How Employers Can Avoid Penalties & Back Pay Liabilities Training Seminar
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record-keeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
This webcast covers what you need to know about avoiding mistakes in classifying exempt jobs, calculating overtime, making deductions from wages and leave banks, plus more!
CONFERENCE OUTLINE
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP- Which workers are covered by the FLSA
- Independent contractors
- Interns and trainees
- Home-workers
FLSA EXEMPTIONS- Classifying employees correctly as exempt or non-exempt
- Synopses of the most common exemption categories under regulation 541z
- Avoiding employer actions that can jeopardize a regulation 541 exemption
- What happens when a non-exempt employee has been incorrectly classified as exempt
- When an employer can - and cannot - legally deduct from an exempt employee's pay, including:
- Company closings (due to inclement weather, planned full- or partial-week closings)
- Full-day absences after sick or paid-time off allotment has been exhausted
- FMLA
- FLSA impact on deductions from exempts' paid-time-off banks for partial-day absences
HOURS WORKED ISSUES- What counts as "time worked"
- Calculating hours worked
- What is the de minimis rule (clock-rounding)
- Avoiding typical problem areas for calculating working time, including:
- Meetings
- Training programs
- Preparatory and concluding activities
- Travel time
- Meal periods
MINIMUM WAGE/PAYMENT OF WAGES- How to make sure minimum wage is assured
- Effects of employee work-related expense deductions on minimum wage requirement
- Special minimum wage rules for tipped employees and commissioned employees
- State law mandates for final paychecks
- Payout of vacation and sick time required by state law
OVERTIME COMPENSATION- How to correctly compute overtime
- Principles of overtime standards, including defining a workweek
- Exceptions to the basic requirements for overtime under regulation 778
- Common practices that result in OT violations
- "Comp time" plans - are they legal?
- How commission, piece-rate, job rate, salary, and daily rate compensation plans affect OT liability
- Effects of bonuses, commissions, and non-cash rewards on computing the base rate for OT
About Your Speaker
Mitchell Quick, Esq., is a partner in the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich. His practice includes all aspects of management, labor, and employment law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination litigation, wrongful discharge, and wage and hour legal issues.
Suggested Participants
Anyone who makes decisions regarding compensation policies should attend this conference. Suggested participants include: payroll administrators, HR professionals/directors, controllers, CFOs, accountants, and small business owners.
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$149.00
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