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Wage and Hour Roulette: Gambling Your Companys Future

One in five employers has been audited by the U.S. Department of Labor for violations of the federal wageandhour law, according to a recent survey. If you havent, it may just be a matter of time. What will they find when they do? Are you POSITIVE youve correctly interpreted the revised (but still complicated and confusing) overtime regulations? If youve failed to correctly classify employees as exempt, you may owe them a whopping amount of back pay going back two or three years.(DOL audits triggered $165 million in backwage payments in 2004 alone.) In this session mustattend, youll learn how to root out questionable classifications and determine your organizations liability should a misclassification occur. Youll get a clear understanding of the risks involved when your supervisors require or allow employees to work "off the clock," how to spot it, and how to stamp it out. Youll also get the truth about comp time as compensation, and why you cant use it. Finally, youll get a refreshing clarification of the DOLs very latest efforts to clarify federal overtime laws. About Your Speaker: John B. Phillips, Jr., is a partner in the law firm of Miller & Martin and Deputy General Counsel of CocaCola Enterprises Inc. In addition to defending employers like yourself against lawsuits, he is in constant demand for onsite employment law training and risk assessment. Listed in Best Lawyers In America for labor and employment law, Phillips has been hailed by several leading HR magazines for his ability to communicate workplace law in clear English. He is editor of Tennessee Employment Law Letter, a monthly newsletter, and is the host of the awardwinning Danger Zones for Supervisors videobased training program, now in its 3rd edition.

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