Wage and hour violations remain one of the fastest-growing sources of employer liability. A single payroll mistake, employee misclassification, unpaid overtime claim, or off-the-clock work allegation can quickly escalate into government investigations, class-action lawsuits, back-pay awards, penalties, and significant reputational damage.

Despite employers’ best efforts, wage and hour compliance continues to become more complex. Federal and state wage laws frequently change, remote and hybrid work arrangements create new compliance challenges, and managers often make well-intentioned decisions that unintentionally violate labor regulations.

Questions such as these arise every day:

• Are your exempt employees properly classified?
• Must employees be paid for after-hours emails and texts?
• How should travel time, training time, and on-call time be compensated?
• What deductions can legally be made from employee paychecks?
• When does rounding become a compliance risk?
• What records must employers maintain to defend against wage claims?

In this practical and highly informative training session, payroll and compliance expert Vicki Lambert will provide a comprehensive roadmap for navigating today’s most critical wage and hour challenges. You’ll learn how to identify compliance risks before they become liabilities, implement best practices, and create defensible payroll processes that withstand audits and employee scrutiny.

Whether you work in HR, payroll, accounting, finance, operations, or business leadership, this training will help you reduce risk, strengthen compliance, and avoid costly mistakes.

In This Training, You’ll Learn How To:

• Properly classify employees as exempt or nonexempt under wage and hour laws
• Understand overtime requirements and calculate overtime correctly
• Identify common employee misclassification risks and liabilities
• Manage remote and hybrid employee timekeeping requirements
• Determine when travel time, training time, and meeting time must be paid
• Address after-hours communications, mobile device usage, and off-the-clock work
• Apply meal and rest break rules properly
• Understand compensable waiting time and on-call time requirements
• Navigate wage deductions while maintaining compliance
• Handle final paychecks, termination pay, and wage payment obligations
• Establish compliant timekeeping and recordkeeping procedures
• Conduct internal wage and hour audits to identify vulnerabilities
• Respond effectively to employee wage complaints and agency inquiries
• Reduce exposure to Department of Labor investigations and wage claims
• Create policies that support consistent pay practices across the organization

Why This Training Matters?

Wage and hour claims continue to be among the most expensive employment-related issues facing employers today. Even small payroll errors can multiply across an entire workforce, creating significant financial exposure.

Organizations that fail to maintain compliant wage and hour practices may face:

• Government audits and investigations
• Back-pay liability
• Overtime violations
• Employee lawsuits
• Class and collective actions
• Civil penalties and fines
• Increased legal expenses
• Employee relations challenges

A proactive compliance strategy can help organizations:

• Reduce payroll-related risk
• Improve compliance confidence
• Strengthen documentation practices
• Increase payroll accuracy
• Avoid costly disputes
• Improve management decision-making
• Protect organizational resources

This training focuses on practical, real-world compliance strategies that participants can implement immediately to improve payroll accuracy and reduce liability.

Who Should Attend?

• Payroll Professionals
• Human Resources Managers
• HR Directors
• Accounting Professionals
• Controllers
• Finance Managers
• Benefits Administrators
• Compliance Officers
• Operations Managers
• Business Owners
• Office Managers
• Department Supervisors
• Employment Law Professionals

Anyone responsible for employee compensation, payroll administration, workforce compliance, or labor law compliance.

What Makes This Training Different?

Most wage and hour programs focus solely on regulations. This session goes beyond legal theory and focuses on real-world compliance situations employers face every day.

Attendees will learn how wage and hour laws apply to actual workplace scenarios involving overtime, remote work, employee classifications, travel time, payroll deductions, and recordkeeping requirements.

Participants consistently value this training because it provides:

• Practical compliance guidance
• Real-world payroll examples
• Common violation scenarios and solutions
• Audit-prevention strategies
• Actionable best practices
• Clear explanations of complex wage and hour rules
• Immediately usable compliance tools

You’ll leave with a stronger understanding of wage and hour compliance requirements, greater confidence in your payroll processes, and practical strategies to help protect your organization from costly mistakes, audits, and employee claims