Exempt v. Nonexempt: Ensuring Proper Classification of Employees for Compliance with Federal Overtime Laws

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will elucidate why business owners, managers, human resources professionals, and in-house attorneys with the responsibility of ensuring that employees working in the U.S. are properly classified as exempt from overtime (and minimum wage) under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act governing exempt status.

It will also offer attendees an understanding of when employers are covered by federal FLSA overtime and minimum wage requirements. Further, the program will offer guidance on auditing job positions for exempt classification, including best practices and practical steps to ensure lawful classifications.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Legal foundation: Understand when employers are covered by federal FLSA overtime (and minimum wage) requirements
• Making sure that compensation (salary or other forms of wages) satisfies the compensation test for exempt status under new federal regulations raising the minimum salary for white collar exemptions
• Understanding and applying the different job duties tests that must be satisfied for exempt status
• Guidance on auditing job positions for exempt classification, including best practices and practical steps to ensure lawful classifications
• How to remedy misclassifications uncovered during an internal audit to avoid lawsuits

Who Will Benefit:

• Payroll Professionals
• Human Resources Personnel
• Accounting Personnel
• Business Owners
• Lawmakers
• Attorneys
• Any individual or entity that must deal with the complexities and technicalities of federal Wage and Hour law and compliance issues in the payroll process

Allen Kato
Owner, Allen Kato Law Office

With over 30 years of experience counseling management and litigating their employment cases (both individual and class actions) before courts and agencies, Allen Kato has his own practice through which he provides lawful options and solutions to achieve business goals. He was an attorney in the employment group at Fenwick and West for over 13 years, and before that for 15 years with Schachter, Kristoff, Orenstein & Berkowitz, an employment law boutique.

He received his J.D. degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in 1982 and his B.A., History and Rhetoric, from the University of California, Davis, in 1974. Mr. Kato is a member of: the State Bar of California since 1982; the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and various federal district courts in California and Arizona.

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