HR's Pay Practice Checkup: How to Find and Fix Exemption and Other Costly Errors

HR's Pay Practice Checkup Webinar

Are all your employees accurately classified as exempt or non-exempt? How can you be sure, given the latest overtime rules from federal watchdogs? Easy -- conduct a top-to-bottom review of your pay practices, with help from an experienced employment law attorney.

The DOL estimates that nearly 70 percent of employers are not in compliance with FLSA. In 2010 alone, it set aside $25 million for an enforcement crackdown, adding 350 FLSA investigators with the goal of sniffing out employers who commit wage and hour offenses -- especially exemption misclassifications.

Don't risk non-compliance. Learn how conduct an internal payroll self-audit that evaluates your current policies and practices, and discover mistakes before enforcement officials or employee attorneys do it for you.

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

• Why you should do a self-audit sooner rather than later, and how often to repeat it to ensure that you don’t end up liable for hefty fines tied to misclassifications
• A checklist of documents to review during your audit and what to look for
• Recent federal cases that demonstrate how employers could have avoided mistakes when classifying their employees
• How to effectively get the data you need to conduct a thorough exemption audit
• Tips on developing an effective internal overtime exemption audit strategy, including how to communicate with employees about how they spend their time working
• Examples of “borderline” positions that are often difficult to classify and raise the most problems for employers
• Recordkeeping techniques you can use to defend your white collar overtime exemptions
• The safest way to fix exemption classification errors without triggering legal actions
• How to tell if independent contractors could have claims for unpaid overtime against your organization

In just 90 minutes, you can ensure your organization is correctly classifying employees by learning an effective self-audit strategy. Register now for this must-attend event risk-free.

This webinar was recorded on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

HR's Pay Practice Checkup: How to Find and Fix Exemption and Other Costly Errors

About Your Speaker:

Allen M. Kato is an attorney in the Employment Practices Group of Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco. His practice concentrates exclusively on representing management in equal employment opportunity, wage and hour, wrongful termination, privacy, unfair competition, and trade secret matters, and litigating individual and class action lawsuits before courts and agencies. He also trains managers and human resources professionals on a regular basis.