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California Hot Button and Hidden Compensation Issues



Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Product Code - HRAU01
Speaker(s): Laura Innes, Director, Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC
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Defending your company against class action litigation risks related to compensation systems is a complicated job. Employers must be able to address compensation issues most likely to pose systemic risk and identify best practices for minimizing those risks.

Join Laura Innes, Director of Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC, as she examines the following hot button compensation issues:

  • Bonus calculations - ensuring that something intended to be a positive for employees does not become a huge negative for employers
  • Commissions - avoid creating unlawful chargebacks - how to set up and document agreements that meet business needs
  • Expense reimbursements - latest court decision clarify how and when expenses must be reimbursed
  • Salary basis tests for overtime exemption how and when to make lawful deductions from exempt employees salaries
  • Recovering training costs from employees who resign after employers make investments in their training

Laura Innes, Director, Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC

Innes

Laura Innes started her career as a federal Wage Hour Compliance Investigator. Now, however, she is a director of Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC, and has been engaged exclusively in private practice focusing on labor and employment law for almost 25 years. Her practice combines preventive counseling for management with civil and administrative litigation defense. Recognized by Martindale Hubbell as an AV rated practitioner, Ms. Innes regularly publishes articles on a wide range of employment law topics and is a frequent speaker to client and community groups. Ms. Innes has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer one of the top 5% of lawyers in Northern California by San Francisco Magazine every year since 2004. Ms. Innes also serves as an Expert Witness in labor and employment matters with special emphasis on wage and hour disputes.