The Small Business Development Center ETSU – Kingsport Affiliate & Employee Benefit Consultants, Inc. co-host Making Sense of the Department of Labor’s New Exemption Rules Webinar The webinar is pre-recorded and will be available to participants on Monday, July 11 – Friday, July 29. The webinar is co-sponsored by the Kingsport Office of Small Business Development and Entrepreneurship (KOSBE), Employee Benefit Consultants, Inc. and Your Kingsport Chamber. This is a FREE webinar! The Department of Labor announced the final exemption rules earlier this month, which will go into effect on December 1, 2016. ThinkHR’s legal and HR teams have all the information you need to know to manage these important changes to the overtime exemption rules. Join Robin Shea, partner in the national labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP and the ThinkHR team for this fast-paced one-hour webinar where you will learn: • The details of the DOL’s final rule and how this impacts “white collar” exemptions (executive, professional and administrative) • Key compliance deadlines you must meet • Practical considerations in managing reclassifications of employees from exempt to nonexempt status • How the final rule could impact telecommuting/remote worker policies • Tips for communicating classification changes to your employees • Plus other considerations based on the final regulations The Webinar link is available to all participants upon registration. About the speaker: Robin Shea has more than 20 years' experience in employment litigation, including Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (including the Amendments Act), the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; and class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage-hour laws; defense of audits by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs; and labor relations. She conducts training for human resources professionals, management, and employees on a wide variety of topics. Robin is Editor in Chief of Constangy's client publications and author of Constangy's blog Employment & Labor Insider. You can also follow Robin on Twitter @RobinEShea.
Speaker(s): Robin Shea, Chief of Constangy's Client Publications & Author of Constangy's blog Employment & Labor Insider
Co-Sponsor(s): Employee Benefit Consultants, Inc., KOSBE, Kingsport Chamber of Commerce, SBDC at ETSU Kingsport Affiliate Office
The cooperative agreement between KOSBE and East Tennessee State University is partially funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SBA’s funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions or services. SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. Additional funding is provided by the Tennessee Board of Regents and the state of Tennessee. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Please contact Katie Prendergast — 423.392.8825; kprendergast@tsbdc.org; 400 Clinchfield Street, Suite 100, Kingsport, Tennessee 37660.
Fee: No Cost