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Are You Ready to Solve the Worker Classification Puzzle?

Have you heard that the IRS has recently partnered with numerous states to crack down on companies that misclassify workers to avoid paying overtime and taxes? With stepped-up enforcement underway, it's important for employers to ensure proper worker classification. Faegre & Benson can help. Our upcoming employment seminar offers practical solutions for companies confronting the worker classification puzzle.

In an effort to get products and services to the market in the most efficient and effective way in this difficult economy, businesses often overlook two fundamentally important worker classification issues: whether to classify workers as employees or contractors and whether to classify them as exempt or non-exempt. These decisions, if made incorrectly, can result in disruptive government investigations and significant, sometimes destructive, litigation costs. Naming a worker a "consultant" or "independent contractor" does not cause the worker to be a consultant or independent contractor. Paying an employee a salary does not cause the employee to be "exempt" from the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investing a little time in proper worker classifications can save employers from enormous time and dollar outlays down the road.

Please join the members of the Faegre & Benson Employment and Benefits practice to discuss practical solutions for classifying workers.

An application for one hour of Colorado CLE credit has been submitted.

To register for this seminar, please click here.