Presented By: Stacy Cormican

Participants will learn about alternatives to paying non-exempt employees by the hour, strategies to prevent off-the-clock work and reduce overtime, how to calculate regular rate of pay when bonuses, commissions, and other special payments, and how and when deductions can be made from paychecks.

Learning objectives for this session include:

• Participants will learn how to establish criteria paying non-exempt employees other than by the hour that comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act, Iowa Minimum Wage Act and Iowa Wage Payment and Collection Act.
• Participants will gain knowledge of the most recent legal decisions regarding what activities constitute hours work and how to establish criteria and policies that prevent off-the-clock work and reduce overtime in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, Iowa Minimum Wage Act and Iowa Wage Payment and Collection Act.
• Participants will gain a working knowledge of the proper way to calculate employees’ regular rate of pay in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, Iowa Minimum Wage Act when employees are paid bonuses, commissions, or other special payments.
• Participants will learn how to establish criteria for paycheck deductions and garnishments so that the deductions are made in compliance with the Iowa Wage Payment and Collection Act and the FLSA.

Stacey is an attorney at Nyemaster Goode P.C. who works with employers in all matter of employment issues including employment contract disputes, sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, Family and Medical Leave Act, Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, drug testing, and unemployment, employment policies and handbooks, employment contracts, drug testing, investigations and audits, hiring and firing, wage and hour issues, and employee leave issues.