Wages Telephone Seminars

Payroll Recordkeeping: What You Need to Know ...the number of lawsuits and claims for overtime and unpaid wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Did you realize that liability for FLSA violations can be enormous? Recent reports estimate that over the last few years companies have collectively paid out more than $1 billion annually to resolve FLSA claims! Learn the role of the FLSA and its requirements as to the records to be kept by the  more...

Portal to Portal Act: Determining Hours Worked at the Start and End of the Work Day ... action claims for off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime wages at a fever pitch. Thousands of wage and hour class actions asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are staggering. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor is issuing  more...

Portal to Portal Act: Determining Hours Worked at the Start and End of the Work Day ... action claims for off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime wages at a fever pitch. Thousands of wage and hour class actions asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are staggering. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor is issuing  more...

Understanding the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Employee Family Leave Laws and Return-to-Work Issues ...itigation and an award of damages that could include lost wages, back pay, reinstatement, retroactive benefits, compensatory damages and punitive damages. Employers need to understand the application and interplay between the laws protecting pregnant employees and providing medical leave. This live audio conference will help employers understand the protections provided by the PDA, when an  more...

Tax Consequences of Gifts, Prizes, Fringe Benefits, Business Expenses, and Other Payments To Employees ...wages. Today there are a myriad number of taxable and nontaxable benefits, such as gift cards, moving expenses, educational expenses, meals and travel expenses, that employers provide as part of employee's total compensation. Particularly in difficult economic times, employers are looking to provide such benefits to employees with the least cost, both to themselves and employees. Failure to  more...

Rules and Responsibilities Regarding Abandoned Wages ...xamine the rules and responsibilities regarding abandoned wages. If your payroll department is not handling unclaimed wages properly, you could be placing your company at risk for huge audit assessments, significant interest accumulations, and civil and criminal penalties. If your company issues any type of employment checks whether it be wages, bonuses, deferred compensation, employee  more...

Essentials of Florida Garnishment Laws ... writ is a directive from the court to withhold salary or wages from someone working for you (and not just an employee). This audio conference will explain the nuts and bolts of Florida's garnishment laws, from how a garnishment works to what happens if you don't properly comply. This audio conference is designed for human resource and payroll professionals, benefits managers, business owners  more...

Jeopardizing Exempt Status ... path to potentially ruinous liability for unpaid minimum wages and overtime. This teleconference is designed to help you identify issues which jeopardize exempt status and correct them. It will also address certain myths regarding what you can and cannot do. The topics to be covered will include payment on a salary basis, permissible and impermissible deductions from salary, supplementing  more...

Texas Nonsubscriber Claims 101: Perspectives From Employees and Employers ...rchase insurance products that pay for medical care, lost wages and indemnify the employer if a claim is filed. Other employers self-insure and handle claims in-house or send them to third-party claim administrators. Different than workers' compensation claims, employees, who work for nonsubscriber employers may pursue personal injury claims in court or at arbitration. The law governing Texas  more...

When Wages are Not FICA Wages ...wages by the IRS, thereby exempting those monies from FICA tax? If not, this teleconference will be beneficial to you in helping reduce employer liability for FICA taxes on money that is not wages. You already know that any cash or noncash remuneration received for employment, unless specifically exempt, is considered wages subject to the FICA tax. This teleconference will examine the  more...

Deductions From Pay BenefitsEmployers often have difficulties navigating through the complex requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Misclassifying employees' status can be costly to an employee. It is estimated that at least 70 percent of employers are not in compliance with the FLSA. As Department of Labor audits increase, it is critical for employers to understand the FLSA and to recognize the permissible  more...

Tip Credit and Tip Pooling: FLSA Considerations and Limitations ...ervice sector are compensated in part by tips rather than wages. This is particularly the case for restaurants and tourist service occupations. Employers are allowed in certain circumstances to claim a tip credit toward satisfying state and federal minimum wage laws. This means that the tips are credited against and thus satisfy a portion of the obligation to pay certain minimum wages. The laws  more...

Employee Wages: Administration of Caps, Freezes, Reductions and Furloughs BenefitsEmployers continue to search for ways to control payroll costs in response to economic uncertainty. Layoffs and force reductions have pared many workforces to the bone, but the pressure to manage costs is relentless. Adjustments to compensation and to working time can be viable alternatives to job cuts, but they are not without legal risk. This teleconference will address the legal and  more...

Discipline and Termination Considerations for Employees on Leave ...uld expose the company to unnecessary legal costs, unpaid wages and statutory penalties. This teleconference will review the various types of leave available to employees and whether the company is obligated to provide leave under certain federal and state laws. The teleconference also will review the termination prohibitions set forth in the statutes and recommend strategies for handling  more...

Supplemental Wage Payments: Common Withholding Guidelines ...g when wage payments should be classified as supplemental wages or regular wages, and the applicable withholding rules that apply to the payments. We will discuss the most common types of supplemental wages, such as commissions, signing bonuses, severance payments and sick leave, and explain the three approaches used for to determining the applicable withholding rate. Additionally, we will  more...

Presenteeism: Measurement and Intervention Issues for Employers and Health Plans ...rcent of a global company's total compensation (salaries, wages and all benefit costs) were lost due to presenteeism. Work site wellness programs can potentially make many important contributions to the measurement and reduction of productivity losses associated with presenteeism. This teleconference will cover a working definition of presenteeism, the major methodological approaches to its  more...