This audio conference was recorded on Thursday - April 16, 2009

Credits:

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification.

Description:

Plaintiffs’ attorneys are scrambling in this challenging economy to exploit every possible angle for filing new wage and hour lawsuits on behalf of disgruntled employees. Their latest target? Travel pay disputes. These claims are being filed in droves; workers are claiming they’ve been shortchanged by employers who failed to pay them properly or reimburse on-the-job travel expenses.

Many employers haven’t updated their travel policies in recent years to keep up with changing federal and state rules. Fluctuating gas prices and uncertain salaries have forced more workers to keep a closer eye on their out-of-pocket expenses. And travel pay rules can prove very confusing for even the most experienced managers and HR professionals.

Order this in-depth audio conference recording all about travel pay.

Speaker(s):

Mark E. Tabakman, Esq., is a partner in the Roseland, New Jersey, office of nationwide law firm Fox Rothschild, LLP. He advises clients throughout the country on all aspects of labor relations and employment law, as well as the development of corporate employment policies. He has a specialty in wage-hour law, including representation of more than 200 clients before the state and federal departments of labor and state and federal courts on issues such as proper payment of overtime, alleged misclassifications of employees as exempt and nonexempt, and what constitutes working time. Also, he publishes and maintains a wage-hour blog to provide the latest information and observations on new developments in wage-hour law. Tabakman is a frequent guest speaker on employment law issues and has appeared on local and national television programs commenting on workplace issues. He also writes a weekly column on labor and employment issues titled “Making the Law Work.” He earned his law degree at Cornell University.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The best practices for drafting and enforcing effective travel pay policies in today’s economy – from establishing which employees may be asked to travel to setting fitness-for-duty and overtime reporting rules
• How federal laws (such as the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act) and state regulations may affect your travel policies – and what you must do when the federal and state rules conflict
• Why certain situations, such as work-related emergencies, may require you to pay employees who would otherwise not be compensated for traveling
• The different standards applied to exempt and nonexempt employees in travel pay situations
• What you’re required to pay when employees travel away from home for work purposes – and how the rules change if the workers drive your vehicles instead of their own cars
• The practical steps you can take right now to protect your organization