Payroll Law Seminar

Seminar: ID# 1003650

This course is available in both in-person and video conference formats.

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Agenda

• The high cost of improperly classifying employees
• Critical steps for new hire reporting - what you must do
• The most important thing to know about statutory employees
• Why payroll managers hold more responsibility today than ever before
• The legal importance of maintaining the distinctions between contract employees and staff
• What to do if you get an FLSA complaint

• The must-do's of FLSA record keeping
• Exempt vs. nonexempt employees: are you applying the FLSA properly to each?
• What are your company's responsibilities for travel time, on-call time, and time employees spend waiting on behalf of your company?
• Are all meetings and training deductible - even those that are primarily vacations?
• When are exempt employees eligible for overtime?
• Understanding overlapping federal and state wage and hour laws
• The important tip credit and what it means to your company's labor costs
• Comp time — the common illegal practice many companies unknowingly use

• When and how to tax fringe benefits such as company cars, club memberships, etc.
• The legal ramifications of paycheck advances
• When must prizes won at a company function be taxed?
• Gone to the Guard for the week — what to do when military pay and your payroll overlap
• Tips and uniform allowances: what's considered income, what's not?
• What you're required to pay when an employee is dismissed
• Compensation and fair market value: what the law says you must do
• Gifts that must be reported to the IRS
• Withholding and reporting rules for cash fringe benefits vs. non-cash fringe benefits

• When to withhold tax - before or after voluntary deductions
• Payroll procedures that signal trouble to auditors
• How to correctly follow the tax provision for low income families
• What is back-up withholding and when should you use it?
• The critical differences between W-4, W-4P, and W-4S forms
• Special must-do procedures for employing resident and non-resident aliens
• How to handle compensation for U.S. employees working abroad