Healthcare Wage & Hour

 

ELT's Healthcare Wage & Hour course is dedicated to the unique needs and risks of the healthcare industry.

Wage and hour class actions targeting healthcare employers have literally exploded. ELT's course is a critical part of your compliance program, and can change your risk profile today. This course is specifically designed to help healthcare employers establish powerful affirmative defenses.

ELT's course educates your workforce about the basics of state and federal law as well as your policies. Focusing on healthcare-specific scenarios and challenges, the program translates critical wage and hour issues like overtime, off-the-clock work, meal and rest breaks, and auto-deduction into real-life stories that your employees will understand and remember.

Three Powerful Training Formats

Three powerful training formats draw learners into an engaging, realistic, and impactful experience. Each component features healthcare-specific content and examples.

Part One is set as a TV news show that puts dry wage and hour rules into vivid, real-world context for employees and managers. Full-motion video storylines and interactive exercises feature healthcare scenarios and bring lessons to life.

Part Two features detailed wage and hour content for managers. Learners join a virtual work team to complete a series of dynamic and compelling challenges designed to teach managers how to comply with your organization's wage and hour policies, and the law.

Part Three highlights your wage and hour policies with ELT's innovative Policy in Action™ tool. Learners search your policies to find answers to your custom interactive questions.

Full-motion video storylines and interactive exercises
feature healthcare scenarios and bring lessons to life.

Developed by Top Legal Experts

This program was created with Littler's nationally recognized team of wage and hour experts, and the DOL's former wage and hour administrator. Every detail has been put to the test to ensure this course impacts judges, juries, regulators, and employees.

State Law Smart

This course's smart logic ensures that each learner is trained on both federal law, and the laws of the state where the learner works. Based on a learner's location, course content is automatically and intelligently configured. ELT is the only training provider in the market to offer this unique capability, helping employers manage costly state law litigation risk.

Helps Establish Powerful Legal Defenses

Wage and hour training is compelling evidence of good faith efforts to comply with the law. If your organization is sued, ELT's Wage & Hour - Healthcare Version course can help establish a good faith defense, and dramatically reduce damage awards or the settlement value of a case.

ELT's Healthcare Wage & Hour course can help establish
a good faith defense to escalating wage and hour claims.

Concise & Impactful

Address one of your most pressing concerns--time-related training costs. Precision design creates a 30-minute employee program and a 75 to 90-minute manager program, depending on the content you select.

The Healthcare Wage & Hour Epidemic

• Wage and hour class action lawsuits are exploding, outpacing all workplace discrimination claims combined. Wage and hour class actions now account for an astonishing 84 percent of all employment class-actions filed.
• Plaintiff law firms are aggressively targeting healthcare employers. Wage and hour settlements currently average $23.5M on the federal level and $24.4M on the state level.
• The Department of Labor (DOL) estimates that more than 64% of healthcare employers are out of compliance with wage and hour laws.
• The DOL has an increased budget and hundreds of additional field investigators to enforce wage and hour laws. 
• Employers face a web of continually evolving state and federal laws, with state law driving the most costly litigation.