NFIB webinar explains independent contractor classification, overtime calculation, exemptions, and more

Small business owners regularly encounter wage and hour laws, a complex and often-misunderstood area of employment law. To help small businesses navigate this problematic area of the law, NFIB Small Business Legal Center Executive Director Beth Milito hosted a webinar focused on key wage and hour laws and how to stay in compliance with them.

Beth highlighted the NFIB Small Business Legal Center’s newly updated Wage and Hour Guide, which goes in-depth about issues related to independent contractor status and Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) compliance. “The guide is written in a way that I hope will be helpful for small businesses,” Beth said. “I know many small businesses do not have a dedicated human resource person to handle employment law, so we’re hopeful that the guide will help in those matters.”

Beth added that part of the Legal Center’s motivation to update the guide came from recent changes in the wage and hour laws across the US. “It’s a complex area of law that’s becoming more complex. Unfortunately, more and more states and local municipalities are enacting their own wage and hour laws layered on top of the federal law.” Beth added that the Biden administration has aggressively tried to crack down on wage and hour violations, with the Department of Labor home page boasting that they took 24,700 compliance actions affecting over 190,000 workers in 2021.

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