Making sense of ‘special circumstance’ pay pitfalls

May 16, 2012 by Dan Wisniewski

You know when non-exempt staff have to be paid for off-the-clock time or travel. But what about these other wage and hour pitfalls?

Here are six compensable time issues that every HR pro should know how to handle, courtesy of Grace Lee and Robert Friedman of Venable LLP.

Seminars and training

Non-exempt workers who attend a lecture, a seminar or a training program outside the office don’t have to be paid if the event meets the following criteria: 

• attendance is voluntary
• attendance is outside the employee’s regular working hours
• the event is not directly related to staffers’ jobs, and
• staff members don’t perform any work during the event.

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