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What Are My Competitors Paying for This Job?
Find out (and get a free special report!) by trying BLR's all-in-one website for comp and benefits information, Compensation.BLR.com.
The site brings you salary information on thousands of jobs, localized by industry, state, and company size. Find the situation most like your own and you'll know what to pay, and what benefits to offer, as well.
Click for more info, or to start a free trial and get your free special report!
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Employers Plan Merit Increases Averaging 3.71% in 2009
BLR's 2009 Annual Pay Budget Survey results are in and the overall planned merit increase for 2009 is projected to be 3.71 percent.
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Who Wants to Keep Their Job?
A recent survey identified which industries have the greatest percentage of workers who would prefer to remain with their current employer.
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This Week's Poll
What's the best part about your job?
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Last Week's Poll
A significant percentage of HR professionals report that their organization uses automatic enrollment for its 401(k) plan.
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Everything HR ... at the Click of a Mouse!
It's HR.BLR.com, our all-inclusive HR web service! Help with 200 topics, 750 prewritten job descriptions, white papers, news, state law, salary data. Plus many new features have just been added. Get a Free Special Report just for trying it.
Click for more info, or to start a free trial and get your free special report!
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Pharmacy Professionals Enjoy Rising Pay
Pay for pharmacy professionals is "increasing at a healthy rate," according to new survey results from Mercer. The survey also highlights differences in pay among metropolitan areas for positions in the industry.
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Reducing Turnover: Important, but Difficult
Reducing turnover is a high priority for most employers, but fewer report that they are successfully keeping turnover to desirable levels, according to the results of a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the last 90 days.
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Can HR Really Educate the Healthcare Consumer?
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Just as astronomical gas prices are forcing us to pursue alternative energy sources, healthcare inflation has forced U.S. companies to find alternative health plans. Consumer-driven healthcare (CDH) seems to be the only option gaining real traction. Here we take a look at the seven major steps employees must climb to become true healthcare consumers, and how employers can construct the handrails needed to help the workforce ascend.
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[Available to everyone this week!]
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
If an employee's position is deemed exempt, but the employee works on a non-exempt assignment and ends up working over 40 hours, does the entire week then become non-exempt and is the employee due overtime?
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HR Challenge®: H-1B Visas
H-1B visas are issued to individuals who work in specialty areas of expertise (usually highly technical and professional workers such as computer scientists or engineers). How long are the visas valid?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Error In Compensation
An HR Forum subscriber has discovered that his/her organization has been overpaying an employee for several months. The subscriber is asking for advice on how to rectify the payroll situation, but is also troubled by the fact that the employee was likely aware of the overpayment and remained silent.
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| Featured HR And Compensation Resources |
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Compensation.BLR.com
Are you overpaying your employees? Find out at lightning speed on this comprehensive database of state- and industry-specific salary and benefits benchmarking data for hundreds of jobs, plus a library of FLSA and other legal guidance, best practices, white papers, and comp and benefits news, updated daily. 14-Day Trial!
Employee Compensation in [Your State]
Arranged alphabetically by topic, this comprehensive resource explains in plain-English all key state and federal wage and hour laws--from minimum wage to overtime classification.
HR Audit Checklists
Pilots depend on checklists. So should you! Detailed, reproducible lists on EEO, job descriptions, recordkeeping, hiring, benefits, and requirements of all key HR laws to run through before you or your managers take a major step. Don't let one slipup damage your career.
SmartPolicies
Create the most-needed HR policies at about $1 each. Prewritten, legally reviewed, and ready-to-use on a CD. Boot up, include your specifics, print. You're done! Policies for attendance, harassment, compensation, discipline, and many more.
FLSA Self-Audit Guide
Are all your jobs classified properly for the new FLSA overtime regulations? Discover wage & hour problems before the government does. Easy to use, it can pay for itself many times over because of the trouble it avoids.
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| August 06, 2008 |
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Bush Would Veto Paycheck Fairness Act
If HR 1338, also known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, reaches President George W. Bush's desk, he will veto the legislation, according to a statement from the White House last week. In a July 30 "Statement of Administration Policy," the White House stated that the Bush administration "strongly supports and aggressively enforces our Nation 's anti-discrimination laws and is firmly committed to the principle of equal pay for equal work. But rather than contributing to that cause, HR1338 would make enforcement of these laws more difficult and error-prone and invite a surge of litigation."
The legislation would, among other things, require that employers seeking to justify unequal pay bear the burden of proving that its actions are job-related and consistent with a business necessity. For more details, click here.
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