Human Resources Luncheon - 01/28/2010
Sponsored by Holiday Inn Boxborough Woods
Topic: Legal Traps in Employee Status
(Independent Contractor vs. Employee and Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Classification)
(Independent Contractor vs. Employee and Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Classification)
An estimated 70% of employers routinely violate wage & hour laws. Now is the time to ensure your company’s compensation compliance. Massachusetts now has among the toughest standards in the nation restricting when a worker may be characterized as an independent contractor. This presentation will provide information to help organizations avoid the traps of misclassifying personnel whether it is as a temporary worker, an independent contractor, exempt (“salaried”) employee or a non-exempt (“hourly”) employee.
Training your workforce on basic wage and hour rule is one of the most effective ways to prevent problems. This lively, interactive session will provide the guidelines and tools to help attendees make informed decisions about classifying workers correctly. Case study discussions will provide practical examples and help participants learn from others’ mistakes.
Guest speakers:
Lauren Brenner, HR Division President of HCR Group who has practiced HR both in-house (for companies including Jordan’s Furniture and Boch Enterprises) and consulting in a variety of industries, both for profit and non-profit, whose size usually range from start up to mid-size businesses.
Also presenting will be Daniel Field, an employment attorney with Morgan, Brown & Joy and formerly from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he was the Chief of the Mass Attorney General’s Fair Labor and Business Practices Division, overseeing enforcement of Mass overtime, independent contractor, weekly wage payment, tip pooling, minimum wage and child labor laws.
Human Resources Luncheon - 01/28/2010
Date and Time
Thursday Jan 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST
Noon - 1:30pm
Location
Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce100 Sherman Ave.Devens MA 01434 For directions: http://www.nvcoc.com/directions.shtml
Fees/Admission
This is a bring your own brown bag lunch Members in Advance: $10Non-members & At-the-Door: $20
