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Travel Pay in 2026: Rules, Compliance, and Best Practices

Sep 8th, 2026 01:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM CST / 10:00 AM PST
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MARGIE FAULK
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About this Webinar

How to compensate employees for the hours spent traveling on business is becoming one of the major concerns of the payroll department today. Many recent changes in federal and state wage and hour rules, as well as economic pressures on employers and employees alike, can create a situation that can practically invite noncompliance lawsuits especially if the travel time results in overtime being owed to the employee. 

But it isn’t just the DOL that is interested in travel pay. The IRS also has strict regulations on when employees can be paid for travel expenses without it being considered wages. Does the company use the per diem method to reimburse employees or the accountable plan method? Or do you even need to have a method when it comes to 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 an employee for travel pay. It includes what travel pay is, best practices for handling the payments, how it affects overtime calculations, and what is required on the state level. It also discusses the requirements for taxing travel expenses under IRS rules.

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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MARGIE FAULK
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Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A former Compliance Officer for Federal Defense Contracting Industry, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s focus is on multi-state, national, state and local workplace compliance. Additionally, Margie is working on International compliance initiatives globally which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.

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