Impact of the New FLSA Overtime Rules on Institutions of Higher Education 2016

Key Topics

• Issues unique to the positions most likely impacted on your campuses, including residence life staff, admissions staff/recruiters, assistant coaches and athletic trainers
• Conducting an audit of all exempt job positions to identify all of their employees who currently earn less than $913 per week or $47,476 annually, and calculating the costs involved if the salaries of those positions were increased to the threshold minimum level
• Determining any unintended consequences of electing certain options for compliance
• Evaluating the best options for compliance given legal, financial, employee morale, and other considerations specific to your institution (options may include increasing salary levels to meet the threshold level, evaluating and realigning employee workload, tracking and compensating overtime for all hours worked in excess of 40 per week above a salary, re-classifying employees as non-exempt, reductions in force, or outsourcing certain functions)
• Implementing your action plan
• Communicating your action plan; and

Who should Attend

• Risk Assessment
• General Counsel/Assistant General Counsel
• Student affairs administrators
• Human Resources personnel
• Admissions directors
• Residence life directors
• Postsecondary regulatory and compliance professionals
• Athletics administrators
• Attorneys representing post-secondary educational institutions