COURSE DESCRIPTION: “The Department of Labor will not hesitate to take action to ensure workers receive the compensation they have worked hard for and earned,” U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said in May after a CA company got slammed with a $580 million verdict in an overtime case.
She was making a point – that the labor-friendly Obama DOL is turning up the heat on OT violations. Yes, they’ll catch the scoundrels. But they’re also going to nab thousands of well-intentioned companies that unknowingly violate overtime laws, which can be very tricky.
Don’t get caught in the net. Attend this straight-talk 60-minute conference conducted by an expert employment law attorney, Edward Bergmann. He’ll lay out for HR executives a detailed overview of the white-collar exemptions, providing specific, practical examples showing how they’re applied. The course will also highlight the “hot spots” -- those areas where employers are prone to make classification mistakes, and offer advice for conducting audits.
After attending this course, you will be able to explain:
- What’ll be different under the new administration and why
- Why we see so many fines and lawsuits involving the “discretion and independent judgment” test aspect of the administrative exemption – and what you can do to get it right
- Changes to the salary basis test and steps you can take to ensure compliance
- How to classify analysts, specialists, coordinators, executive assistants, and computer employees
- How to use, draft and manage job descriptions -- which are often your worst enemy when you get into court -- from an overtime classification perspective
- How to correctly determine who is supervising who for purposes of the executive exemption
- How to handle situations where an employee is supervised by multiple bosses
- The effect of the increased salary level test on the exempt status of part-time employees
- How employers have been responding to the new regulations.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Edward Bergmann, Esq., is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw. He is the Chair of the firm’s Task Force on wage-hour issues. He has represented private and public employers, throughout the United States, in administrative and court litigation under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and State Acts for over 30 years. He has handled class actions under state wage payment laws in numerous states and handled collective actions under FLSA throughout the country both at the district court, federal appellate court and Supreme Court levels.
Mr. Bergmann has also provided advice to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 corporations on compliance with state and federal FLSA statutes and avoidance of litigation under those statutes. He participated in the General Accounting Office’s review of the White Collar Exemptions to the FLSA, which culminated in a published report to Congress by GAO. Recently he has provided guidance on compliance with the revised federal exempt status regulations.
 HRCI CERTIFICATION: This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage.
 MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It's risk-free.
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