Tips for Calculating a Regular Rate of Pay For Your Employees

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Description

Ensure youre compliant with employee wage payments and avoid back pay, wage and hour violations, and other consequences.
One of the most common United States Department of Labor (USDOL) wage and hour violations is the incorrect payment of overtime wages. The USDOL reports that, in 2022, an average of 1,393 in back wages was collected for each employee. Back wages are not the only impact of incorrect overtime calculations. Also impacted are tax payments, benefits, reporting, etc. The impact of paying employees incorrectly is farreaching and expensive. Payment of wages is more complicated than the hourly rate multiplied by hours worked. If you offer shift differentials, health insurance optout money, and bonuses for production, attendance, and oncall time the calculation of the overtime rate of pay becomes more complicated. This presentation will provide you with the information and understanding you need to ensure your compliance with employee wage payments and avoid back pay, wage and hour violations, and other consequences of incorrect wage payments.

Date: 2023-09-28 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:05 PM ET

Learning Objectives

* You will be able to define employee payments that must be included in the overtime pay calculation.

* You will be able to discuss the impact of bonus programs on the calculation of overtime pay.

* You will be able to recognize if an employees pay is compliant with regulatory requirements.

* You will be able to identify if a bonus is discretionary or nondiscretionary.

Compensable vs Non-Compensable Time
• Define Compensable Time
• Define Donning and Doffing Time
• Review of Waiting Time, Rest Breaks, Training, Travel, and Other Types of Employee Engagement

Discretionary vs Non-Discretionary Payments
• Define a Discretionary Bonus
• Define a Non-Discretionary Bonus

Base Rate, Regular Rate and Premium Rate
• Define Base Rate
• Define Regular Rate • What Does It Include and Exclude?
• Define Premium Rate
• Calculation Example

Best Practices and Options
• Options to Make the Calculation Easier

AIPB ,CPP/FPC (Pending) ,CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,HR Certification Institute ,CPE ,SHRM ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.

Tricia Richardson, CPP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP-Purposed Payroll Professional