Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR

Correctly apply the FLSA at your workplace and remain the go-to expert with this new desk reference...

Complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can be confusing and challenging for even the most savvy HR practitioner.  Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR provides you with detailed guidance on how to comply with the FLSA and takes you through the most complicated wage & hour issues that HR practitioners encounter.

Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR features:

• Real-world examples of wage & hour challenges, and how to solve them
• Multiple quizzes, so you can see where you need to review more carefully
• An overtime exemption audit checklist, so you never make the wrong call
• State-specific charts, for comparing your multi-state obligations
• Sample policies, easily modified to fit your specific preferences
• A quarterly newsletter, Wage & Hour Compliance Bulletin, to keep you aware of the latest developments in the law, and why they matter to you.

Now when you’re faced with a supervisor’s travel time question or an employee’s request for comp time, you’ll find answers in seconds, from a reputable and reliable source.

Bonus -- not just a manual! You'll also get:

• A free CD-ROM containing over 20 forms, policies, checklists, state-by-state comparison charts, and more
• A free quarterly Wage & Hour Compliance Bulletin alerting you to legal changes that require alterations in your workplace policies.

Buyers' Benefit: To make sure your Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR remains current with changing interpretations and cour decisions, we monitor courts, Congress, and state legislatures. Each year, we'll rush you an updated edition and bill on a 30-day review basis. You pay only if you decide to keep the updated edition.

Employment law attorney Kara E. Shea has represented businesses in EEOC and employment litigation matters and has handled wage and hour, discrimination, and retaliatory discharge cases, including class actions, in federal and states courts around the country, and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits.

Ms. Shea also offers general employment counseling and advice to business clients, including assistance with employment policies, handbooks, and agreements, FLSA and FMLA compliance issues, review of disciplinary actions and discharge decisions, and investigation of workplace complaints. Ms. Shea is the co-editor of the Tennessee Employment Law Letter, and is a regular contributor to the Nashville City Paper. Ms. Shea is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Nashville Bar Associations. She received her law degree from Vanderbilt University, where she was a published associate editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Holly K. Jones is the Managing Attorney Editor at M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC. She is the editor of Fifty Employment Laws in Fifty States, the comprehensive guidebook of employment laws in all 50 states, and Employers State Law Alert, the monthly resource for summaries of significant employment legislation. She has also written and edited several additional publications on labor and employment law, including the HR Guide to Employment Law, the Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook, and the Mastering HR series.

Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR

Overtime exemptions — off-the-clock work — constant demands to reduce labor costs while increasing productivity “By whatever means necessary!” Complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can be confusing and challenging for even the most savvy HR practitioner. That’s because the law’s complex requirements can easily land them on the wrong side of a lawsuit or DOL investigation.

In fact, there are more wage and hour lawsuits pending in the federal courts than all other employment claims combined.

Buyers' Benefit: To make sure your Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR remains current with changing interpretations and cour decisions, we monitor courts, Congress, and state legislatures. Each year, we'll rush you an updated edition and bill on a 30-day review basis. You pay only if you decide to keep the updated edition.