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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.
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Off-the-Clock Use of Smartphones Creates Problems
Technology provides a means for employees to stay connected to the office during off-hours. In many cases, that is beneficial to both employees and employers. However, it becomes a potential problem if nonexempt employees claim their employer owes them for uncompensated time.
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More than Half of Workers Think They Are Underpaid
Workers are more likely to say they are underpaid for the work they do than say they are paid appropriately for the work they do, according to a Gallup Poll.
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Last Week's Poll
Most employers aren't doing anything to help employees with high gas prices, but some are. See what they are doing to help.
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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.
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Pay for Treasury, Financial Pros Well Above National Average
Compensation for financial professionals "outpaced that of the national workforce as a whole" in 2007, with an average salary increase of 4.5 percent, more than 36 percent higher than the national average, according to a new survey.
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HR Pros ID Best Part of Their Jobs
When HR professionals are asked to identify the best part of their job, they are most likely to say that they find the work interesting and/or rewarding, according to a 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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Limiting an Employee's Right to Discuss Pay with 'Other Parties' May Violate NLRA
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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits employers from instituting work rules that explicitly restrict the ability of employees to have discussions, among themselves or with union representatives, about compensation or working conditions. If an employer allows its employees to discuss compensation with one another but, for a valid business reason having nothing to do with unions, prohibits employees from discussing compensation issues with "other parties," has the employer violated the NLRA?
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
Are there any requirements--from the FLSA or other laws--when it comes to consecutive days of work? Is there a limit on the number of days an employee can work in a row?
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HR Challenge®: Unions
One employer has employees who are on strike over economic issues. Another employer has employees who are on strike over unfair labor practices. Which of these employers may hire permanent replacements for the employees who are on strike, under the National Labor Relations Act?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Shift Differential
An HR Forum participant wants your thoughts on a shift differential policy and a possible change to it.
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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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