If you are concerned about your company's ability to comply with U.S. labor and payroll laws, join us for a quick introduction and help ensure your company pays your employees fairly and handles tax and other withholdings properly.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the basic laws affecting payroll
- Recognize where to find the authoritative rules to support your policies and procedures
- Identify if your company pays employees fairly and handles tax and other withholdings properly
Why Should You Attend:
Are you responsible for payroll or employer tax withholding compliance? Or maybe you were recently hired or promoted into the payroll department. During your indoctrination, you are surprised at all the interesting things to do and how important this role is to the success of the company. You begin to wonder just how much there is to learn.
Join us for a quick briefing on the basic laws affecting payroll. Learn where to find the authoritative rules to support your policies and procedures. Accelerate your learning using our organized and thoughtful delivery and determine to step into your role with confidence.
Topics Covered
- Who must be treated as an employee v. who may be treated as an independent contractor
- Additional Worker Classifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act
- Other IRS worker classifications
- What constitutes compensable travel time under the Portal Act
- Who is entitled to Overtime Pay
- What qualifies as hours of work
- Call back and Show-up pay
- Form W-4 Exemption Allowance Issues
- How to use Form SS-8 and what to never do with this form
- Form 941 Quarterly Employee Earnings and Tax Withholding Report
Instructor
Miles Hutchinson is a CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant) 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 2,000 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 has over 35 years of practical experience in strategic planning, analysis and reporting. He is the author of several useful reporting and tax tools available at www.soxpolicies.com and www.salestaxadvisors.com.
His clients include, Abbott Labs, Bank of America, Boston Scientific, Citicorp, Corning, the FBI, the FDA, the Federal Reserve, GE, Pfizer, Siemens, US Marine Corps, and the US Army. Please visit his web sites to see how you can further benefit from his expertise.