HR Compliance 2012 - Handling Supplemental Pay Under the FLSA

This webinar on handling supplemental pay will help you ensure that your supplemental pay practices are in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. It will review in detail all areas of supplemental pay.

Today's wage and hour environment has become one filled with peril for employers who do not understand how to deal with the Fair Labor Standards Act. The US Department of Labor has stepped up its enforcement efforts by adding investigators, forming an alliance with the American Bar Association in order to refer cases and creating a smart phone application that allows your employees to report their time directly to the USDOL.

Areas Covered:
- Understanding who is a covered employer
- Understanding who is a covered employee
- The basics of overtime
- Handling shift-differentials
- Dealing with On-call time
- Handling meals and breaks
- Why you have to pay for breastfeeding
- Putting to bed the issues of sleeping breaks
- Understanding commuting
- When you have to pay employees for training and when you don’t
- Dealing with the difference between local travel and long-distance travel
- Understanding how to deal with preparatory and concluding activities
- The difference between Federal and State requirements.
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Class action versus collective action lawsuits