Wage & Hour Compliance: How to Avoid Common FLSA Pitfalls

The course, presented by Edmund O'Meally, is designed to help practitioners and HR professionals to understand the general requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. This program will help practitioners to avoid common misconceptions and pitfalls that, if neglected, will likely lead to individual or collective action claims for liquidated damages and attorneys' fees.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the duties test and the salary test requirements for FLSA exemption

2. Identify the various rules against the docking of pay and pay deductions  

3. Discuss how collective bargaining factors into such areas as premium pay calculations and shift differentials

4. Analyze the different ways of calculating overtime during fluctuating work weeks and learn the differences between the use of comp time and flex time and how that may impact the payment of overtime

5. Explore the differences between discretionary and non-discretionary bonuses impact overtime calculations