APA’s 2015 FALL FORUM Recap

2015 FALL FORUM Recap The Fall Forum was held in Orlando, FL September

General Sessions Emerging Technologies: A Panel Discussion Prism Award Winners: The Next Step Results of the 2015 Mercer Payroll Benchmarking Survey Front-Row Leadership Benchmarking: The Next Step APA Talks

Sessions Offered Lean Labor-Create the Perfect Paycheck Perform Data Integrity Audits for Continuous Compliance and Accuracy Preparing Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Succession Planning for Your Team Tracking Expatriates’ Mobility to Ensure Compliance Are You Ready to Prepare Form 1095-C to Comply With the ACA’s 2015 Reporting Requirements? How to Improve Yourself and Your Team

Sessions Offered How Are You Changing Pay and Benefits Packages to Meet Compliance Changes? Improve Emotional Intelligence and Success Managing Vendor Partnerships Developing a Mentoring Program Global Payroll Compliance-Where to Start Help Upper Management Understand Metrics/Big Data Payroll and HR Collaborating Strategically

Sessions Offered Communicating for Results: From Conflict to Cooperation Electronic Payments-Is Same-Day or Next-Day Settlement a Reality? Global Payroll Operations: Trends and Techniques How to Communicate to Other Departments What Is Needed for Payroll Strategic Leadership Models That Work Change Management Techniques to Drive Change Developing a Compliance Framework to Support Global Compliance

Sessions Offered Improving Communication Across the Organization Using Benchmarking to Improve Best Practices

Tips To Stay Current With the Ever- Changing Legal Requirements 2 nd consecutive year a compliance session was offered Presented by Michael P O’Toole, Esq. Employment Law Expert Municipal court judge 30 years experience as a writer and editor of payroll and employment law books, loose-leaf guides, and newsletters Author of The Payroll Source Senior Director of Publications and Governments Relations for the APA

Tips To Stay Current With the Ever- Changing Legal Requirements The session was filled with information on: Accelerated W-2 Filing Deadlines Efforts to Combat Refund Fraud Worker Misclassification New Proposed OT Exemption Regulations Mandatory State e-IWO participation Paycard Rule Changes UI Developments

The DOL Has Proposed New White Collar Regulation-What Are Your Next Steps to Ensure Compliance? Presented by the APA’s James Medlock CPP Director of Education & Training

The DOL Has Proposed New White Collar Regulation-What Are Your Next Steps to Ensure Compliance? The APA suggests employers review exempt employees with annual base at $54,000 and below Current proposal is $970/week 2003 proposal was $420/week, the 2004 approval was $455/week States with their own regulations, PA is one of them, are expected to review and update after the federal regulations are approved, it’s predicted they may decide to exceed the federal regulations Annual updates were included in the proposal, APA suggests employers put something in place to have an annual review as an on- going process

The DOL Has Proposed New White Collar Regulation-What Are Your Next Steps to Ensure Compliance? The APA is certain a decision on the recent proposals will be made before the 2016 presidential election The 2004 approval took just under 50 weeks with 6 months between approval and effective date The recent proposed rules received more than 4,200 comments The APA did not submit comments, their concern is the administrative piece Petitions with more than 152,000 signatures were submitted, employers are not happy with the proposals

Questions?

Thank You Tammie Downey, CPP