Booting Up’ on Compensable Work Time - Live Smartcast Webinar

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Elm Grove, Wisconsin, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) August 29, 2011 -- Contact: Jane Keddie
Phone: 262-432-0707
Email: janek@davidsonmarketing.com
http://www.futureofficenetwork.com

Compensable time conundrums range from high-tech to low-tech issues. Must employees be paid for checking and responding to work email via PDAs? When are donning and doffing activities compensable and when are they not? One common factor is the risk you as an employer face, if you make the wrong call on compensable time.

Wage and hour class action lawsuits are blazing, outpacing all workplace discrimination claims combined. Wage and hour class actions now account for an astounding 84 percent of all employment class-actions filed.

Compensable working time is one of the more perplexing definitions with which employers encounter in today’s workplace. The question of whether travel time, on-call time, lactation breaks, training sessions and donning and doffing count as compensable working time that must be included in the overtime-eligible workweek must be answered correctly.

The Department of Labor (DOL) estimates that 80%+ of employers are out of compliance with federal and state wage and hour laws.

FutureOffice Network Smartcasts are a free service to the public twice monthly and have become very popular over the six years since the service began. Sign-up is easy. Go to:
http://futureofficenetwork.com/fonsmartcast.aspx and follow the simple directions. This Smartcast will be live on September 20th, 2011 at 10 am and 1 pm (CDT)

About the Speaker
Craig J. Davidson, CEBS, is Principal of Davidson Marketing Group, LLC and the FutureOffice Network. Davidson is also on the faculty at the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is also a monthly columnist for Employee Benefits Adviser magazine.

About FutureOffice Network

FutureOffice Network is an internet-based H.R. service with approximately 17,000 active users in 22 states. Its tools streamline an employer’s workflow and include coverage of employee benefits, employment law, human resources, compensation rules, and employee communications.

Contact Jane Keddie for more information at janek@davidsonmarketing.com.

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