Vicki M. Lambert
Working from home has become the new norm for many workers. Even before COVID-19 forced businesses to send their employees home, around 4 million employees worked remotely for at least half of the week. Even now, with the country slowly returning to normal, many companies are allowing those workers who wish to stay remote to do so either part-time or full-time.
The pandemic has created a variety of compliance challenges for companies. This includes employees working remotely to new and constantly changing regulatory and statutory requirements such as vaccination and paid leave mandates. As they work to understand these changes and help their clients through a new compliance landscape, these challenges place accounting firms—particularly owners and decision-makers—in the hot seat.
Remote work has many benefits for companies, including access to a broader employee talent pool (regardless of location), reduced employee turnover, and cost savings. Many workers, forced to work from home for the first time due to the pandemic, found advantages, but working from home can also mean dealing with some significant compliance requirements. These can impact everything from business taxes to workers' compensation. Unfortunately, such considerations are sometimes a surprise to employers who don't have an HR department or lack an understanding of the implications of having remote employees.
Session Highlights:
Why Should You Attend:
21st technology allowed us to work from anywhere during the pandemic and will continue to allow employees and employers the freedom to work from anywhere. Unfortunately, as we end the pandemic's major upheaval and start to settle into the new normal of office life, the compliance issues are not as easy to address as the technology ones were at the beginning. Overtime rules, minimum wage rates, permitted deductions from paychecks, and even paystub requirements are governed by where the employee physically performs the work. The same applies to garnishments for child support and creditors. Payroll must determine all these compliance issues at the age where employees can work from anywhere.
Who Should Attend:
Vicki M. Lambert, CPP is President and Academic Director of The Payroll Advisor™ a firm specializing in the training of payroll professionals. With over three decades of hands-on experience in all facets of payroll functions as well as over 20 years as a trainer and author, Ms. Lambert is a sought-after and respected voice in the practice and management of payroll issues. She has conducted open market training seminars on payroll issues across the United States as well as serving as an in-house trainer for businesses such as Sun Micro systems, Fox Studios, Disney, County of Riverside and the City of Hesperia. Ms. Lambert currently produces and presents payroll related audio seminars, webinars and webcasts for clients, APA chapters and business groups throughout the country.Ms. Lambert is an adjunct faculty member at Brandman University in Southern California and is the creator of and instructor for their Practical Payroll Online program, which is approved for re certification hours by the APA.
