For the most part, employers want to comply with the laws.But the wage and hour laws are surprising complicated, and not intuitive.

Problems usually arise in one of three ways:

random audit

employee complaint

or referral from another agency

In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with Margaret (“Peg”) O’Brien, Director of the Employment Law Practice Group at McLane Middleton, the US DOL’s increasing enforcement of employer misclassification of Independent Contractors, Joint Employment, and Exempt Status.

In addition Peg and David discuss the less known fact of how bonuses (including stay and sign on) can effect overtime calculations for nonexempt hourly workers.