EmployStats is honored to announce it be teaching a course on statistical sampling for the Texas State Auditors Office (SAO) this winter.  The course, titled Statistical Sampling for Large Audits, will take place online between December 14 and 15, 2020.

The State Auditor’s Office (SAO) is the independent auditor for Texas state government. The SAO performs audits, reviews, and investigations of any entity receiving state funds. EmployStats’ principal economist, Dwight Steward, Ph.D., along with Matt Rigling, MA and Carl McClain, MA, will be instructing this course for auditors from state and local government.

Over this two day, all-online course, the EmployStats team will provide a crash course to participants in the uses of statistical sampling, how statistical samples are conducted, and when statistical samples are legally and scientifically valid in performing audits.

To find out more about the seminar and the Texas State Auditor’s Office, please visit the SAO Website. For more on EmployStats, visit our website: Employstats.com!

On Thursday September 12th, the EmployStats team will be sponsoring the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area Club Classic – UT Legends.  The event will be hosted at Top Golf Austin, with special guest University of Texas Alumni and NFL star Jamaal Charles. Team members Matt Rigling, Carl McClain, and Susie Wirtanen will be teeing off in support of the Boys & Girls Clubs.  Dr. Dwight Steward serves as a board member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area, as part of EmployStats’ mission to give back to the local Austin community. It should be a wonderful event for an even better cause! We hope to see y’all there!

 

 

The EmployStats consulting team, lead by Matt Rigling, MA, recently worked on a case involving employee misclassification.  EmployStats assisted attorneys by calculating potential damages for employees who were classified as exempt but potentially should have been classified as non-exempt and therefore owed FLSA overtime wages for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.

 

Matt Rigling and the EmployStats team also worked to use the case data and information provided to confirm whether the employees in question passed both the salary and duties tests for exemption purposes. According to the FLSA, an employee can be classified as exempt under the Administrative, Executive, or Professional exemption if they meet all of the requirements for salary and job duties.  

 

In this case, EmployStats compared the employee information to the salary and job duty requirements of the Administrative and Executive exemptions.  Under both exemptions, the employee must be paid a salary of at least $455, as well as meet the job duties specific to an Administrative or Executive employee.  According to U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative employee’s primary job duty must be office work that is “directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or employer’s customers” and must include “the exercise of discretion and independent judgement” for matters of importance.  Similarly, Executive employee’s primary job duty has to be managing the company, or a department of the company. Additionally, they must also regularly direct at least two other full-time employees and have the authority to at least recommend the company fire, hire, or promote other employees.

To see how EmployStats can assist you with an employee misclassification case or another labor and employment matter, please visit www.EmployStats.com or give us a call at 512-476-3711.  Also make sure to follow our blog and find us on social media! @employstatsnews

EmployStats is dedicated to providing our clients and employment lawyers with up to date information regarding employment law, including law changes, innovative implications, and statistical uses in employment litigation.  Stay informed by following EmployStats on Twitter @employstatsnews and on LinkedIn at EmployStats.

 

For all news and publications related to equal pay and employment law, follow @equalpayact on Twitter and @CaliforniaEqualPay on Facebook.  Register for our employment CLE sponsored by EmployStats to hear about recent equal pay cases and their implications, as well as the use of statistics in employment litigation. Link: www.californiaequalpay2017cle.com/

EmployStats is pleased to announce that employee Matt Rigling has been offered admission into UT Austin’s Masters Program and will begin taking classes in Summer 2017!  Matt will be completing the 18-month program to obtain his Masters Degree in Economics.  He looks forward to taking advanced analytical and econometric courses and bringing those skills to his work here at EmployStats.  Matt will be working full-time in his position of Research Associate at EmployStats while pursuing his advanced degree.

Matt Rigling began working for EmployStats in an Intern position in March 2015, and was promoted to Research Associate in May 2015 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors Degree in Economics.  When he’s not crunching numbers for EmployStats, Matt enjoys watching the San Antonio Spurs and going on hikes with his puppy Zella.