Employee or Independent Contractor – Learn how to Make a Proper Determination
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Miles Hutchinson
Webinar Description
Do you know how to make a proper determination between an employee and an independent contractor? If not, you should attend this webinar on the rules and regulations available to help you with this complicated and risky issue. There are multiple regulations enforced by various governmental agencies at both the federal and state level that relate to this issue. Prepare your hiring staff to make proper determinations, correctly classify every worker and avoid the fines and penalties that follow misclassification. Establish clear policies and procedures to ensure you don’t become liable for back taxes, overtime pay, or injunction orders from the Department of Labor.
Experienced CPA and businessman Miles Hutchinson will review the law regarding worker classification and help you ensure full compliance with the pertinent laws and regulations. He will provide practical guidance in these areas that have become the subject of increasing US DOL, IRS, workers compensation and state unemployment scrutiny.
Agenda
- How to determine proper worker classification
- Review the classification rules of the IRS
- Compare IRS rules to Fair Labor Standards Act regulations
- Forms available to assist with the determination and what you should never do with them
- Risks associated with misclassification of a worker as an independent contractor
- How to separate the request for classification from the ultimate decision maker – their motivations are very different
- Learn the safe harbor rules of Independent Contractor classification
- Know the consequences of misclassification regarding unpaid overtime compensation, unpaid employee benefits, FIT, FICA, Medicare, workers compensation insurance and unemployment insurance, and the potential for injunction orders by the DOL
- Receive best practices for managing this risky compliance issue that arises daily
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Continuing HRCI Credit
This program has been pre-approved for 1.5 hours of General recertification credit hour through the HR Certification Institute. Use of the seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
Continuing SHRM Credit
Park Avenue Presentations is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.