Jeopardizing Exempt Status

Once exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employees do not necessarily remain exempt for the duration of their employment. Actions taken, or not taken, by employers can and do jeopardize the exemptions claimed, leading unknowing employers down the path to potentially ruinous liability for unpaid minimum wages and overtime.

This live audio conference is designed to help you identify issues which jeopardize exempt status and correct them. The program will also address certain myths regarding what you can and cannot do. The topics to be covered will include payment on a salary basis, permissible and impermissible deductions from salary, supplementing salary with additional payments, reducing salaries or hours, required use of paid time off, performing nonexempt work and more.

This program will help you identify and resolve thorny problems which jeopardize exempt status.

Patrick M. Madden, K&L Gates LLP 
Michael A. Pavlick, K&L Gates LLP

Patrick M. Madden 

• Partner in the Seattle office and co-chair of the International Labor and Employment Practice Group at K&L Gates LLP
• Oversees the firm’s wage and hour class action task force
• Advises employers on labor and employment issues, including wage and hour payment and compliance, and compensation plan design; assists employers responding to agency investigations; and represents employers in wage and hour, discrimination and other lawsuits at the state and federal levels
• Worked on dozens of state, regional and national wage and hour class actions, including lawsuits involving wage calculation and payment issues, entitlement to overtime and benefits, off-the-clock claims, challenges to exempt status and claims to employee status
• Former chairperson of the Association of Washington Business’s Employment Law Committee
• Listed as a top labor and employment attorney in The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; as a super lawyer in Washington Law & Politics; and achieved the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
• Frequently speaks and writes on wage and hour, and wage payment issues
• Undergraduate degree, Pacific Lutheran University
• J.D. degree, University of Washington School of Law
• Can be contacted at patrick.madden@klgates.com

Michael A. Pavlick 

• Partner in the Pittsburgh office at K&L Gates LLP, a member in the International Labor and Employment Practice Group and co-coordinator of the group’s publications and presentations committee
• Advises employers nationwide on a wide variety of labor and employment compliance, regulatory, best practice and litigation issues, including wage and hour matters arising from the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and related state and local laws
• Counsels clients on concerns related to the classification of employees, including the exempt versus nonexempt determination and compensation decisions
• Regularly speaks on wage and hour issues
• Undergraduate degree, Drew University
• J.D. degree, Case Western Reserve University
• Can be contacted at michael.pavlick@klgates.com

* 90-minute live audio conference (Travel-Free) delivered over the phone.
 * Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
 * 10-minute Q&A session with the experts.
 * A professionally prepared reference manual.
 * Continuing education credits available for most live audio conferences

• CPP/FPC (Pending)
• CLE (Please check the "Detailed Credit Information" page for states that have already been approved)
• CPE
• HR Certification Institute
• HRPD

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Only registered attendee will receive continuing education credit.