Navigating Travel Pay in 2026: Rules & Employer Best Practices
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About Webinar
How to compensate employees for the hours they spend traveling on business has become a major concern for payroll departments. Recent changes in federal and state wage-and-hour laws, combined with economic pressures on both employers and employees, can create situations that may invite noncompliance lawsuits, particularly when travel time results in overtime being owed to an employee.
But travel pay isn’t just a concern for the DOL. The IRS also has strict regulations governing when employees can be reimbursed for travel expenses without those payments being considered wages. Does the company use the per diem method to reimburse employees, or does it use an accountable plan? Or is a formal method even required when reimbursing employees for travel expenses?
Session Highlights
- Travel pay requirements, What you must pay for and why
- Best practices for paying travel pay correctly
- Which employees have to be paid…and when
- Payroll Compliance and travel pay issues keeping wage and hour claims at bay
- What to do when federal and state laws conflict, and handling multiple state conflict issues
- How travel pay affects overtime calculations travel pay differences for exempt and non-exempt employees
- Special circumstances that may require travel payment
- What are per diems
- When travel payments are taxable
- Accountable and nonaccountable plans
Why You Should Attend
This webinar discusses the rules and regulations that must be followed when paying employees for travel time. It covers what travel pay is, best practices for handling travel payments, how travel pay affects overtime calculations, and state-level requirements. The webinar also addresses the IRS requirements for taxing travel expenses.
Who Should Attend
- Payroll Executives/Managers/Administrators/Professionals/Practitioners/Entry Level Personnel
- Human Resources Executives/Managers/Administrators
- Accounting Personnel
- Business Owners/Executive Officers/Operations and Departmental Managers
- Lawmakers
- Attorneys/Legal Professionals
- Any individual or entity that must deal with the complexities and requirements of Payroll compliance issues
During the Q&A session following the live event, ask a question and get a direct response from our expert speaker.
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Speaker(s)
Vicki M. Lambert, CPP, is President and Academic Director of The Payroll Advisor™, a firm specializing in payroll education and training. The company’s website www.thepayrolladvisor.com offers a payroll news service which keeps payroll professionals up-to-date on the latest rules and regulations.
With over 35 years of hands-on experience in all facets of payroll functions as well as over 20 years as a trainer and author, Ms. Lambert has become the most 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 that have been attended by executives and professionals from some of the most prestigious firms in business today.
A pioneer in electronic and online education, Ms. Lambert 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 recertification hours by the APA. She is also the instructor for the American Payroll Association’s “PayTrain” online program also offered by Brandman University.
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