Classifying Workers Properly: Maximize Profits, Minimize Risk

The news is littered with the liabilities that employment laws can create for businesses. Proposed changes on classification of exempt employees, independent contractors, mandatory overtime pay, increased minimum wage and changes to benefit eligibility seem to be coming daily:

• This summer, the Department of Labor called routine independent contractor relationships into question.
• A month ago, the National Labor Relations Board blurred the lines of corporate formality by holding that a staffing company and its client were both the “employer” of the staffing company’s workers.
• Interns have garnered million-dollar settlements based on their claims they should have been paid for their “work.”
• Just because a worker is “salaried” does not mean the worker is not eligible for overtime. And the government has an iPhone app so employees can calculate overtime they think they should be paid.

Lawyers from Littler Mendelson, P.C., and Rick French, from NSM Insurance Group, will moderate this roundtable discussion about ways business owners can, and have, used employment laws to their advantage in growing their businesses. The presentation, sponsored by ConvergeHR, is inteded for business owners, executives, chief financial officers and human resources personnel.

Registration and Breakfast: 8:00 - 8:30 am

Roundtable Discussion: 8:30 - 10:00 am

Networking: 10:00 - 10:30 am