Are you confident your business is calculating overtime correctly under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)? With recent legal shifts and ongoing updates, staying compliant in 2025 is more critical — and complex — than ever.
In 2024 there was a lot of legislative activity back and forth of new legislation to not having to put it in after all. Overtime and minimum wage have been a hot topic for the last several years, legislation almost went into in effect in 2017 but was stopped by several states coming forward with legal action. Now in November of 2024 the federal Department of Labor was once again stopped from putting in the phased approach of a salary threshold for exempt status.
This webinar will give you the most up to date Overtime requirements and how it will affect employers along with a review legislative attempt in the past couple years. Best practices on how employers can be prepared to implement the new rules and make sure employers are compliant. Review of the DOL updated requirements for determining worker status and tip credit eligibility.
· Federal and State Minimum wage review - including most up to date changes.
· Discussion on how companies should handle minimum wage for states with higher rates then federal.
· Current legislative activity and what it means to employers regarding overtime.
· Details of federal regulation changes, what they are and when do we as employers need to be ready.
· Impacts of changes to companies and best practices on how to handle them.
· Independent Contractor vs employee updates
· Review Federal Overtime Requirements
· Exempt vs. non-exempt.
· Overtime Concerns
· Regular Rate of Pay why it is important and how to calculate.
·State Overtime Requirements
·State by State Review
Correctly paying overtime is a daunting task. Unfortunately, hardly anyone gets it right – the Department of Labor estimates that approximately 85% of employers are out of compliance. Employers not only have to worry about the Department of Labor but the private bar as well.
This webinar will go over the most current passed regulations including the changes to tip credit rules. Changes to how to federal Department of Labor (DOL) sees independent contractors. And potential changes in taxation of overtime what employers should watch for.
· HR Professionals
· Small Business Owners
· Payroll Managers
· Compliance Officers
· Anyone responsible for ensuring FLSA adherence
Dayna is currently the Director of Payroll Operations at Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Dayna has been heavily involved in the payroll field for over 17 years. Starting as a payroll clerk at a small Tucson company, Dayna moved on to be a Payroll Team Leader at Honeywell Inc. During Dayna’s time at Honeywell she obtained her FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) through the American Payroll Association. She also received several merit awards for Customer Service and Acquisitions and Divestitures.
Dayna is no stranger to teaching she has taught at the Metro Phoenix American Payroll Association meetings and at the Arizona State Payroll Conference. Topics including Payroll Basics, Global/Cultural Awareness, Immigration Basics for the Payroll Professional, Multi-State and Local Taxation and Quality Control for Payroll, International and Canadian payroll. Dayna has her CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) through the APA. She also serves on the National American Payroll Association on the National Strategic Leadership Task Force, Government Affairs Task Force (PA Local tax subcommittee). Dayna has received a Citation of Merit for her service along with being a Gold Pin member of the APA. Besides her payroll accomplishments, Dayna is certified in HR hiring and firing practices and is a Six-Sigma Greenbelt.
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