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When Are Workers Employees: And Why Does It Matter?


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Speaker(s): Debera Salam, CPP, Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP
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Tax and other laws vary significantly depending on how a worker is classified. Employees, unlike most other types of workers, are protected by labor laws and their wages are subject to employment tax and withholding, making their services potentially more costly than services provided by other classes of workers, such as independent contractors. In a challenging economy, it is tempting to reduce labor costs by paying employees 'off the payroll.' Governmental agencies, particularly the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing authorities, are now cracking down on worker misclassification, causing employers to carefully review their policies and practices.

Join  Debera Salam, CPP, Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP, as she provides a complete review of the issues and considerations involved when making worker classifications, including:

  • The classes of workers and the tax and reporting that apply
  • What is an employee
  • What is a statutory employee
  • What is a statutory nonemployee
  • What are leased and temporary employees
  • The factors indicating employee status under various laws
  • Classification audits, consequences and voluntary disclosure
  • Viable options for controlling labor costs

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Prerequisite: No prerequisites required
Level: Basic

Delivery Method: Group-Internet

Advanced Preparation: None required
Recommended CPE Credit: 1.5

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Debera Salam, CPP, Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP

Salam
Debera Salam is the Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP, where her experience in payroll research, process and audit, publishing and advocacy were applied in the development of Ernst & Young's Employment Tax Advisory Services strategic consulting approach. As a payroll compliance and process professional, Debera also functions as a subject matter leader on those projects that have a compliance and payroll audit focus, including systems implementations, process improvement, accounts payable interface evaluation for business, relocation and irregular compensation, and internal and external payroll audits. Her broad-based knowledge of all payroll compliance areas, including garnishments and wage-hour, coupled with her experience in federal and state lobbying initiatives, give her a unique ability to coordinate a diverse range of payroll consulting projects.

Among her many activities in the payroll industry, she is currently advisory board member for Research Institute of America's Payroll Guide, and acting advisory board member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers.

Now recognized as one of the leading professionals and authors on payroll, Debera isEditor-in-Chief of Ernst & Young's monthly journal, Payroll Perspectives and the Payroll Answer Book published by Wolters Klower-CCH Incorporated, is author of the widely-acclaimed, Principles of PayrollAdministration and the Payroll Practitioner's Compliance Handbook, published by Research Institute of America, and a two-volume payroll home study course for bookkeepers- Mastering Payroll, published by the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers.

Debera is a certified payroll professional (CPP). She was named the 2004 Texas Payroll Professional of the Year and was selected for listing in the 2004 Who's Who in America. She was also listed in the American Payroll Association's Hall of Fame, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and Who's Who of Emerging American Leaders.