When is Overtime Pay Required by the FLSA and IRS Regulations Covering Employee VS Independent Contractor - Making a Proper Determination

Why Should You Attend:

There are multiple regulations managed by various governmental agencies at both the federal and state level. Prepare your hiring staff to make proper determinations, correctly classify every worker and avoid the fines and penalties that follow misclassification. Establish clear policies and procedures to ensure you don’t become liable for back taxes, overtime pay, or injunction orders from the Department of Labor.

Experienced CPA and businessman Miles Hutchinson will review the law regarding worker classification and help you ensure full compliance with the pertinent laws and regulations. He will provide practical guidance in these areas that have become the subject of increasing US DOL, IRS, workers compensation and state unemployment scrutiny.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• How to determine proper worker classification
• Review the classification rules of the IRS
• Compare IRS rules to Fair Labor Standards Act regulations
• Forms available to assist with the determination and what you should never do with them
• Risks associated with misclassification of a worker as an independent contractor
• How to separate the request for classification from the ultimate decision maker – their motivations are very different
• Learn the safe harbor rules of Independent Contractor classification
• Know the consequences of misclassification regarding unpaid overtime compensation, unpaid employee benefits, FIT, FICA, Medicare, workers compensation insurance and unemployment insurance, and the potential for injunction orders by the DOL
• Receive best practices for managing this risky compliance issue that arises daily

Who Will Benefit:

• CFOs
• tax managers
• accountants
• payroll personnel
• accounts payable personnel
• attorneys.

Miles Hutchinson
President, Sales Tax Advisors Inc

Miles Hutchinson is a CGMA and experienced businessman. He has been an auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Chief Financial Officer of a $1 billion real estate development company. Miles is a professional speaker and consultant who has presented over 2,500 seminars and training sessions on a myriad of business and financial topics, like financial analysis and modeling, accounting, strategic planning, and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He is recognized as an expert in payroll and sales & use tax as well as financial modeling & analysis, business strategy and communications.

He is the author of several useful accounting and tax tools available at www.soxpolicies.com and www.salestaxadvisors.com. His clients include, Abbott Labs, Bank of America, Boston Scientific, CBS, Citicorp, Corning, the FBI, the FDA, the Federal Reserve, GE, Pfizer, Siemens, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Army. Please visit his web sites to see how you can further benefit from his expertise.

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