Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Friday, August 7, 2009
10:30 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)

Order Option       Price   1. Live Conference       $219       2. Live Conference + CD Recording       $269       3. CD Recording Only       $219

Figuring out when your information technology (IT) workers are entitled to overtime can be tricky. Say you classify a network engineer as exempt, but he or she ends up analyzing, troubleshooting, or resolving computer problems instead of working on how to improve IT functionality and design. Does that change the worker's status from exempt to non-exempt? Do you have to pay the person overtime for all of his or her work time, or just for the time spent performing the non-exempt functions?

Questions like these come up all the time for employers. Finding the right answer can prove just as tricky as the factual scenarios at play—unless you know your obligations under both the California and federal pay laws and regulations.

Join us on August 7 for an in-depth 90-minute audio conference. Our experts—both seasoned California labor and employment attorneys—will explain what you need to know to ensure that you're properly compensating your IT workers. You'll learn:

• The types of non-exempt functions that likely will entitle your IT workers—from help-desk specialists all the way up to network engineers—to overtime pay
• Whether California law differs from federal regulations on what it means to analyze, troubleshoot, or resolve complex computer problems
• When installation, configuration, and testing of applications and networks entitles IT workers to overtime under state and federal law
• How much time an IT professional needs to spend analyzing, troubleshooting, or resolving problems to be entitled to overtime
• How to evaluate computer and technology job descriptions to determine if they raise red flags as to IT workers' entitlement to overtime pay
• When IT team leaders and managers are entitled to overtime
• How the Department of Labor's executive exemption rules may affect supervisory IT workers' entitlement to overtime pay
• The huge penalties you may face if you misclassify your IT workers
• How to minimize your exposure to liability if a misclassification occurs

About Your Speaker:

Laura Innes, Esq., a director of Simpson Garrity Innes & Jacuzzi, PC in South San Francisco, has been engaged exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law for over 20 years. Her practice combines preventive counseling for management with civil and administrative trial defense.

Marc Jacuzzi, Esq., is a partner at the law firm of Simpson Garrity Innes & Jacuzzi, PC in South San Francisco. Jacuzzi provides representation and counseling for employers in employment law. He also conducts in-house training programs for employers on a number of employment law topics.

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). This program is also a California-specific continuing education activity for PHR-CA and SPHR-CA recertification. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

The Employer Resource Institute is an approved MCLE Multiple Activity Provider, and this program has been approved for 1.5 hours of MCLE credit by the State Bar of California. For more information, please contact our customer service department at (800) 695-7178.

Bonus Offer

As an additional benefit, you will receive a no-risk trial subscription to Employment Law Compliance for California Supervisors when you register for this Audio Conference (or purchase a CD recording). Each month, you'll receive copies of the current issue to share with your front-line supervisors. If you want to continue to receive the newsletter, simply pay the invoice you will receive in the mail. If you decide the newsletter isn't for you, just write cancel on the invoice and return it. You will owe nothing, and all issues you receive are yours to keep. As with all ERI products, your satisfaction is guaranteed 100%. (Offer good for new subscribers only.)

How Do Audio Conferences Work?

An Audio Conference is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office using a regular telephone. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions' either on the phone or via e-mail.

With your registration, you also receive conference materials with additional practical information from Employer Resource Institute sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference.

Why You Can Sign Up To Attend This Event with Confidence

As with all Employer Resource Institute products, you're completely protected. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with this Audio Conference, simply let us know and we will return your entire registration fee.