by Bob Chenoweth | Apr 15, 2019 | Base Pay, Compensation, Compliance, Regulations, Salary, Total Rewards
When it comes to your organization’s compensation programs, none is more important than your base pay program. A base pay program provides structure and organizes your jobs so you can attract and retain talent. It establishes a baseline for merit pay, salary range...
by Cassandra Faurote | Jan 12, 2018 | Compensation, Compliance, Regulations
Workplace harassment – which is not necessarily limited to sexual harassment – is being recognized as far too commonplace. It seems like every day, another high-profile person admits, or is accused of, improper behavior, misconduct, or worse. Now, the #MeToo and...
by Cassandra Faurote | Sep 8, 2017 | Compensation, Compliance, Overtime, Regulations
The revised overtime rule proposed by the Department of Labor (DOL) under the Obama administration has been struck down by the same U.S. District Judge who put its implementation on hold in November of 2016. Let’s look at what was at stake in the revised overtime...
by Cassandra Faurote | Apr 14, 2017 | Compensation, Compliance, Regulations, Salary
Compensation discrimination can be costly – not just for victims of the practice, but also for organizations that must defend themselves against such claims. For example, Google recently found itself on the defensive after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) claimed...
by Cassandra Faurote | Feb 10, 2017 | Compensation, Compliance, Regulations, Salary
The new EEO-1 report (the Employer Information Report) for 2017 includes significant changes that will particularly impact employers with more than 100 employees. And since this report is based on full-year data from 2017, if your company hasn’t already begun to...
by Cassandra Faurote | Nov 30, 2016 | Base Pay, Compensation, Compliance, Overtime, Salary
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, a U.S. District Judge suspended the December 1, 2016 implementation date of overtime rule changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act. While many businesses may be breathing a sigh of relief because they were in danger of non-compliance, the...
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