Verdicts and settlements against your organization for travel pay violations can cost you dearly. Don’t wait for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division or a state agency to investigate your organization’s travel pay practices – or, worse still, for a full-fledged lawsuit - to find out if you’ve been properly compensating your workforce for their travel time.

Order this in-depth 90-minute webinar recording on how to determine once and for all who’s entitled to travel pay and who’s not. Our expert – an experienced labor and employment attorney – will explain how to draft and enforce a travel pay policy in compliance with the FLSA.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The key questions you need to ask and issues you need to understand when determining whether a worker is entitled to travel pay
• Real-life examples of when overnight travel, travel during regular work time, and travel to attend training programs and meetings are/are not compensable
• When waiting time and on-call time may be compensable
• What you need to do if the FLSA conflicts with your state’s wage and hour laws governing travel pay
• The differing compensation rules covering exempt (salaried) and nonexempt (hourly) workers who may be entitled to travel pay
• The key administrative and legal issues all HR professionals need to address before determining whether travel pay is or is not required
• The practical steps you should take to protect your organization from travel pay claims

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 in audits and inspections 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. He also specializes in the defense of wage-hour class action lawsuits and has represented a number of employers in such actions, on a federal and state level. 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 wage-hour and other employment law issues and has appeared on local and national television programs commenting on workplace issues. He has also authored a weekly column on labor and employment issues entitled “Making the Law Work.”

Approved for Recertification Credit

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.

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