Compensation Best Practices: How to Find and Fix the Pay Errors You Don't Even Know You're Making

Compensation Best Practices Webinar Recording

Well-designed pay practices are more important than ever. Tough economic times have led many employers to cut compensation-related corners to reduce payroll expenses: merit budgets are smaller, compensation programs are challenged, and employers must do more with less. Even if you have the best intentions for compensating your employees, you could be violating the law without even knowing it.

From classifying someone as an independent contractor when she is really an employee to making workers non-exempt and eligible for overtime pay after cutting back hours, HR managers have a lot to keep straight. The cost of getting it wrong can be devastating to your bottom line.

Don't let what you don't know about compensation lead to costly fines and penalties. Get up-to-date now so you can find and fix pay-related problems -- and maintauin complete compliance in the new year.

Participate in this interactive and timely webinar, and in just 90 minutes, you'll learn:

• Payroll records that must be maintained for all employees, and what payroll records need to be maintained for tipped employees under FLSA
• Travel-related expenses, such as meal, lodging, and incidental, that must be reimbursed to employees
• What you can and can't require employees to wear and the reimbursement issues that go along with a non-uniform dress code
• What you MUST know about payroll deductions and the cost of getting it wrong
• When exempts may be entitled to overtime compensation, and the unintended and often catastrophic consequences of cutting salaries
• When docking the pay of exempt employees is permissible
• What types of bonuses and incentives trigger overtime obligations
• When tip pooling is permitted -- and when it will get you in trouble
• Final pay considerations, including the key distinctions between voluntary and involuntary terminations when it comes to the timing of the final paycheck
• If it's ever okay to demand immediate payment of a loan extended to a departing worker
• What you can legally do if you mistakenly overpay an employee
• How to audit your pay practices, and what to do if you discover a mistake
• Key signs that you’ve misclassified employees

In just 90 minutes, you'll learn everything you need to know about the best pay practices for 2012, so you can start the year off in complete compliance. Register now for this timely and informative event risk-free.

This webinar was recorded on Monday, January 23, 2012

Compensation Best Practices: How to Find and Fix the Pay Errors You Don't Even Know You're Making

About Your Speaker:

Attorney Kevin C. McCormick, chair of the Labor and Employment Section with the Baltimore law firm of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, provides advice and counsel to public and private employers on all phases of the employment relationship to ensure compliance with applicable laws, avoid costly litigation, and defend against individual and governmental challenges to policies and procedures. His practice areas include EEO/Discrimination claim representation, employment claim prevention strategies, employment torts, executive compensation, government sector employment, Human Resource management advice, labor relations, non-compete agreements, occupational safety, wage and hour issues, workers’ comp, and more.