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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Overview of the HR Alliance DC 2016 Compensation Survey and "Here we go again: Understanding and Implementing the Department of Labor’s New Salary Level Regulations"

Start Date: 10/19/2016 8:00 AM EDT
End Date: 10/19/2016 10:30 AM EDT

Location:
The Gannett/Tegna Building
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA  United States  22107

Organization Name: HR Alliance DC

Contact:
Amy Steinbicker
Email: staff@hralliancedc.org
Phone: 703-433-9576

Event Schedule:
8 AM - 8:15 AM - On-site Registration, Networking and Breakfast
8:15 AM – 8:20 AM - Program Introductions
8:20 AM - 9:00 AM – Ken Cardinal, Pearl Meyer - Part I  
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM – Break
9:05 AM - 10:10 AM - Steve Ray & Mark Papadopoulos, IslerDare PC - Part II
10:10 AM - 10:15 AM – Program Closing
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM - Networking

Part I - Overview of HR Alliance DC 2016 Compensation Survey

This part of the program will provide a overview of the HR Alliance DC 2016 Compensation Survey Report.

Speaker:

Ken Cardinal is a Managing Director in the Boston office of Pearl Meyer. He leads the firm's survey practice, which annually produces more than 25 different surveys covering a variety of industries and geographic areas. Mr. Cardinal's experience spans more than 20 years in employee pay and communications, executive compensation, benefits, equity, mergers and acquisitions, and total remuneration surveys.

Mr. Cardinal previously was Manager of Compensation, Benefits & Equity for Mergers & Acquisitions at Intel Corporation. Earlier, he served as Director of Compensation & Benefits for Dialogic Corporation and held a variety of senior compensation positions at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Cardinal received a B.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University, an M.A. from Eastern Michigan University and an M.B.A. from Clark University. He is co-author with Beth Florin of Handbook for Conducting Compensation & Benefits Surveys (WorldatWork 2012).  Mr. Cardinal holds both Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) designations from WorldatWork, where he has taught for 20 years.

Part II - "Here we go again:  Understanding and Implementing the Department of Labor’s New Salary Level Regulations"

On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced its Final Rule, which raised the minimum salary level required for exempt executive, administrative, and professional employees under the FLSA Part 541 regulations (commonly known as the “white collar” regulations). The new rule takes effect December 1, 2016.

Under the current FLSA regulations, an employee is exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the law under the executive, administrative, or professional exemption if the employee is paid on a salary basis of not less than $455 per week ($23,660 annually) and the employee’s primary duty involves executive, administrative, or professional duties as defined by the regulations.    

The Final Rule increases the required salary level for these exemptions to $913 per week ($47,476 annually) effective December 1, 2016.  This required salary level was set at the 40th percentile of earnings for full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region (currently the South) using Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2015 data.  The new regulations require that this salary level be updated every three years beginning January 1, 2017 to maintain the salary level at the same fixed percentile (40th) of full-time salaried employees in the workforce in the lowest-wage Census Region.

In follow-up to last year’s excellent program on the fast-changing wage and hour laws, this program will inform attendees about –

  • A review and update of the white collar exemptions;
  • What the new regulations mean for workers who are currently paid less than the new minimum salary level;
  • The highly compensated exemption and inclusion of nondiscretionary bonuses in the salary level;
  • Strategies for implementing the new rule, including converting employees from exempt to non-exempt, managing employee’s work hours and alternative compensation methods;
  • How to survive a DoL audit and the latest DoL enforcement strategies

Speakers:
Steve Ray – Attorney, Founding Shareholder at IslerDare PC
Mark Papadopoulos – Partner, IslerDare PC

Steven W. Ray is a founding partner of IslerDare PC (formerly Ray & Isler, P.C. and Isler Dare Ray Radcliffe & Connolly, P.C.).  Prior to establishing the Firm in 1997, Steve represented employers in the Washington, D.C. area for ten years as an attorney with local firms, Kruchko & Fries in McLean, and Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C.  Steve began his career representing employers in California with the firm of Weisberg & Aronson (now Foley & Lardner).

Steve advises employers and speaks on subjects such as employment discrimination, workplace harassment, non-competition and intellectual property agreements, union organizing and collective bargaining, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Service Contract Act, and employee theft relating to electronic data. He has represented employers in the manufacturing, health care, government contracting and non-profit sectors in courts throughout the country, in cases arising under federal and state laws, and has a strong track record of favorable decisions on summary judgment and at trial.  Steve resides with his wife in Sperryville, Virginia.

Education:
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., 1984 (Managing Editor of the Law Review)
San Diego State University, B.S. Finance, 1981

Mark E. Papadopoulos is a Partner at IslerDare PC.  Mark litigates cases and advises clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters including those arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as state workplace law such as restrictive covenants and common law torts.  Mark is co-author of the Virginia Wage and Hour Handbook and frequently presents seminars on the Fair Labor Standards Act and related wage and hour topics.  Mark served as Chair of the Fairfax Bar Association’s Employment Law Section from 2010-2011.

Prior to joining IslerDare in 2008, Mark served for six years in the U.S. Department of Labor.  In 2005, Mark was appointed Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards where he assisted with a variety of wage and hour matters including federal regulations, legal guidance documents, and enforcement policy with a particular emphasis on matters involving the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.  Prior to this appointment, Mark practiced for three years in the Solicitor’s Office of the Department of Labor where he rendered advice and litigated cases on behalf of the Department.

Before his government service, Mark practiced civil litigation for three years in Washington, D.C. with the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Mark graduated magna cum laude from Cornell Law School in 1998.  After law school, Mark clerked for one year for the Honorable J.L. Edmondson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.  Mark resides with his wife and three children in Falls Church, Virginia.

Education:
Cornell Law School, J.D., 1998
Magna Cum Laude

Program Partnership:

HR Alliance DC is proud to welcome WACABA members to attend this program at no cost.  Please reach out to staff@hralliancedc.org for the promo code so you may register at no cost.

Professional Development:

This program has been preapproved by HRCI for 1.75 General credits.  The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program.  It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.



This program has been submitted to SHRM and is valid for 1.75 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM



 

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