• The latest FLSA requirements —­ keeping it correct to the letter of the law
• The Wage-Hour Law: from commissions to on-call pay and overtime
• Taxable vs. nontaxable compensation: a close look at the benefits and fringes
• Standard test criteria for employee classification
• Payroll accounting and recordkeeping that meet federal and state guidelines
• Managing the payroll process cost-effectively
• Dealing with the challenges of final payments, FMLA and COBRA overlaps and new-hire reporting
• And much, much more

• Experienced payroll professionals who want to stay up-to-date
• Beginning payroll administrators who want to get up to speed
• Small-business owners
• HR professionals
• Managers and supervisors
• Office managers and other one-stop-shop payrollers

Employee Classification: What’s What on Who’s Who

• The often misunderstood standards of the Categories of Evidence test to determine employee status
• What to do when a retiree returns as a consultant
• Temporary positions, “casual laborers” and “floating laborers”: What are your responsibilities?
• A list of job titles that the IRS normally considers to be contractors
• Appealing a Misclassifed Worker Ruling
• Exempt vs. nonexempt according to the FLSA

Wage Calculations: Are Yours Adding Up?

• Time-keeping practices that keep your records airtight and accurate
• Straight practices for calculating sick pay, vacation pay and retroactive pay
• Calculating overtime: What qualifies as “on the clock?”
• How do you deal with the employee who works from home?
• What to do with exempt employees who still receive overtime
• Comp-time policies: Are yours within the guidelines? Do exempt employees ever qualify?
• Applying the FMLA to the FLSA: Common mistakes
• Is it really ok to dock pay?
• Can you not pay nonexempt employees for training?

Benefits: Tax Only the Taxable

• Beyond a morning cup of coffee: De minimis fringes
• Special Accounting Rule: Its uses and restrictions
• Determining the fair market value of employer-provided parking and commuter highway transportation
• Is the company car always excluded from taxable income?
• Cash awards, gift certificates, sports tickets, travel expenses ... exempt or not?
• IRS 10-point checklist for qualified cafeteria plans
• Dealing with FSAs: Use it or lose it
• IRS red flags —­ the patterns of abuse in business expenses
• The FMLA and COBRA overlap —­ keeping it straight

Record Keeping and Forms

• Making a reconciliation schedule and the information you will need to get started
• Spotting the common errors on a W-2
• A line-by-line look at Form 941 and the timely deposit
• IRS publications and getting online: Going to the source
• Information checklists for W-4s
• Keeping your organization free from late-deposit penalties, civil penalties and failure-to-pay penalties
• How long are you required to keep various documents?
• Answering an IRS notice: What to do if you made a mistake

Hot Issues for the Payroll Administrator

• Writing easily understood procedures for the employee manual
• Standardizing your payroll process and 12 great cost-saving efficiency tips
• Outsource the payroll process: Finding the right vendor
• Dealing with payroll vendors: Processes you should have in place for your security
• E-payroll: Wave of the future —­ but is it right for your company?
• Dealing with the “people factor”: Gaining cooperation to get your co-workers to cooperate with policy

SPECIAL SECTION

Garnishments and Levies

Have you noticed an increase in the number of court orders you have to deal with nowadays? Constantly changing legislation makes a tough job even tougher. You not only must answer to creditors but you also have to explain the deductions to an employee who is not thrilled that the paycheck is looking slimmer. It’s like running through a field of land mines.

• Become court order-literate —­ reading it right and knowing where to get clarification
• Federal restrictions on creditor garnishments
• Prioritizing bankruptcy orders
• The differences in administering a defaulted federal student loan and a state guaranty agency
• Guidelines for the amount of wages that are subject to an AWG: When AWG and federal CCPA calculations differ
• The first thing you’re supposed to do with a federal tax levy
• Juggling multiple garnishments: Which ones take priority?
• Worksheet examples of child support-withholding computations

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Sharina Caballero
Coastal Pediatric Association

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Jean Avery
Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant
Oregon Neurosurgery Specialists

“Very informative. Best seminar I have been to in awhile —­ day flew by.”
Jan Holderfield
Payroll Clerk
Providence Hospital

“I really enjoyed the course so much that I never checked my watch. Was never bored or restless. Plain talk.”
Treca Lambert
Payroll Clerk
Providence Hospital

“The speaker was more knowledgeable than any speaker I’ve heard on such a difficult, broad topic.”
Misty M. Jinnette
Payroll Coordinator
Mobile County

“It really clarified several day-to-day issues I was unclear on.”
Terri Walkley
HR Manager
Sears