subject: ELI Introduces New Onsite and Online Learning Designed to Stop the Clock on Wage and Hour Liability [print this page] ELI Introduces New Onsite and Online Learning Designed to Stop the Clock on Wage and Hour Liability
ATLANTA (Sept. 22, 2010) With a growing tidal wave of wage and hour lawsuits and settlements affecting organizations of every size across a wide range of industries, compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is becoming the single largest employment law risk for companies.
That's why ELI, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of award-winning learning solutions that help organizations build and maintain productive, ethical, and legally compliant workplaces, is introducing Civil Treatment Wage and Hour Training for Managers and Employees, the most comprehensive FLSA instructor-led and online learning solutions available on the market.
A 2010 litigation report predicted that employers would continue to face a growing number of wage and hour class-action and collective-action lawsuits in both federal and state courts, particularly in states such as California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Washington.1 By some estimates, up to 70 percent of today's employers may be violating the FLSA, and 86 percent of the U.S. workforce may not be exempt from the law's overtime provisions.2
"It's virtually impossible for any manager or even any HR professional to know all the ins and outs of federal wage and hour standards, even though the FLSA was put in place decades ago," said Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq., president and CEO of ELI, Inc. "Unlike check-the-box training solutions, our wage and hour training programs help employers eliminate workplace practices that put organizations at risk of a wage-related lawsuit while strengthening their legal position in the event of a claim or challenge."
ELI's Wage and Hour training translates complex FLSA regulations into simple, practical steps and behaviors that managers, HR professionals, and employees can easily apply in their daily jobs to ensure the organization's long-term compliance with wage and hour laws. Like all Civil Treatment training programs, ELI's Wage and Hour training is built on a comprehensive framework that emphasizes ongoing learning, practice, and reinforcement through employee orientation, instructor-led courses, and online learning and toolkits.
"ELI's proven FLSA instructor-led courses and online learning programs are built on one fundamental belief: Knowing the law isn't enough," Paskoff said. "You have to give managers and employees the ongoing learning tools to apply it from their first day on the job through their last. Our Wage and Hour training programs do exactly that by teaching leaders when to get advice on wage and hour issues and how to apply basic concepts, while giving employees practical guidance on following organizational policies and the law."
