Seminar – The Preventive Playbook: Wage & Hour Compliance Strategies
- When: Jun 10, 2026 09:30 am PDT - 11:30 am PDT
- Where: 400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814
Worker classification remains one of the most important compliance issues facing employers. Misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor can lead to significant penalties, agency enforcement, and costly legal exposure. With AB 5 and its exemptions continuing to shape California’s classification rules, employers need to understand when contractor status is appropriate and when a worker must be treated as an employee.
Join Weintraub Tobin Labor & Employment attorneys Shauna Correia, James Kachmar, and Chris Horsley as they provide practical insights and actionable guidance on navigating California’s complex independent contractor laws, minimizing misclassification risks, and developing compliance strategies to help your organization avoid costly penalties and enforcement actions under AB 5 and related federal and state regulations.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
This seminar will cover the legal landscape of independent contractor status. Topics will include:
- AB 5 and its exemptions – and the test that applies if a contractor falls within an exemption;
- A summary of the current tests applied by federal and state agencies to determine independent contractor status;
- A summary of the enforcement authority of various federal and state agencies and the sanctions they may impose;
- The due diligence employers must engage in before classifying a worker as an independent contractor; and
- California’s law imposing monetary and non-monetary sanctions against employers (and other individuals) who willfully misclassify workers as independent contractors.
If your company is one of the many California businesses that works with independent contractors, this is a seminar you should not miss.
Approved for 2.0 hours of MCLE credit. This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.