2026 FLSA COMPLIANCE AUDIT: EXEMPT CLASSIFICATION, OVERTIME & RECORDKEEPING RISKS
How to identify wage-and-hour violations before they result in back pay, penalties, employee claims, or a Department of Labor investigation.
Paying an employee a salary—or giving someone the title of “manager”—does not automatically make that employee exempt from overtime. Similarly, issuing a 1099 does not necessarily make a worker an independent contractor.
Employers must correctly classify workers, record all compensable working time, calculate overtime properly, and maintain accurate payroll records. Even an unintentional mistake can become costly when the same practice affects multiple employees.
This practical webinar will explain the latest FLSA requirements and help employers identify the most common classification, overtime, and recordkeeping risks within their organizations.
You will learn how to:
* Determine whether your organization and employees are covered by the FLSA
* Correctly classify employees as exempt or nonexempt
* Apply the current salary and job-duties tests
* Evaluate executive, administrative, professional, and computer exemptions
* Distinguish employees from independent contractors
* Handle temporary workers, interns, trainees, students, and volunteers
* Identify off-the-clock and remote-work risks
* Calculate and document overtime correctly
* Meet federal payroll and recordkeeping requirements
* Recognize when stricter state wage-and-hour laws may apply
* Current FLSA and Department of Labor requirements
* Exempt versus nonexempt classification
* Salary requirements and duties tests
* Independent-contractor misclassification
* Minimum wage and overtime rules
* Remote and off-the-clock work
* Regular-rate and overtime calculations
* Recordkeeping and audit readiness
* Federal versus state requirements
HR, payroll, compliance and compensation professionals; business owners; controllers; operations leaders; office managers; department managers; supervisors; and anyone responsible for employee classification, timekeeping, or payroll.
Participants will leave with a practical framework for reviewing employee classifications, overtime practices, independent-contractor relationships, and payroll records before they become costly compliance problems.
Dayna is currently the Senior Director of Payroll & HRIS at a major medical Center in Chicago. Dayna has been heavily involved in the payroll field over 17 years. Starting as a payroll clerk at a small Tucson company, Dayna moved on to be a Payroll Team Leader at Honeywell Inc. During Dayna’s time at Honeywell she obtained her FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) through the American Payroll Association. She also received several merit awards for Customer Service and Acquisitions and Divestitures.