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Are You Considering Pay Cuts?
While many employees might prefer less pay to no pay as the result of a layoff, there are serious morale and legal compliance issues to consider. Don’t make a move before joining us for an important audio conference on June 5 all about the pros, cons, and pitfalls to watch out for.
Our experts – seasoned compensation consultants – will explain:
- The data you must collect to determine if a pay cut is the best option for your organization
- Legal issues to consider with exempt and nonexempt employees
- How to decide how big a cut you should make
- When and how to communicate pay cuts to your workforce
- And much more….
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10 Jobs Most Difficult to Fill
Engineers, nurses, and skilled/manual trades are the nation's 3 most challenging positions to fill in 2009, according to a survey by Manpower, Inc.
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"When Do I Get My Comp Time?"
An Illinois police officers’ union had bargained with management that any officer working more than 171 hours in a 28-day period could be awarded 90 minutes of compensatory time off for each overtime hour worked—up to a limit of 480 accumulated hours of comp time. But several officers sued, charging that the department somehow didn’t get around to allowing them to use the time.
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This Week's Poll
How many jobs at your organization would you describe as difficult to fill?
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Last Week's Poll
Will a federal paid-sick-leave requirement become law this year?
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Rule on 401(k) Investment Advice Delayed Again
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has further extended the applicability and effective dates of the final rule on investment advice under the Pension Protection Act. The new effective date is November 18, 2009.
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More than 40% of HR Pros Would Take Pay Cut to Telecommute
More than 40 percent of HR professionals would take a pay cut in order to telecommute, with some of them saying they'd trade more than 10 percent of their pay for the right to work remotely, according to a survey on Compensation.BLR.com and HR.BLR.com.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the past 90 days.
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When Times Are Tough, How Do You Pay People?
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A troubled economy compels employers to rethink their semi-automatic merit increases, cost-of-living increases and other raises. Steven E. Gross, a Mercer consultant, recently presented a Webinar on this topic, sponsored by Workforce Management magazine. Gross called his session “Compensation Strategies for Unprecedented Times.”
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
We pay mileage to remote mobile workers from the time they leave their home and till they return in the evening. I believe their pay starts when they leave their home and ends when they return. Is this correct?
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HR Challenge®: Civil Rights
True or False: A private arbitration agreement between an individual and that individual's employer prevents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from filing a court action in its own name and recovering monetary damages for the individual?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Paid Military Leave
An HR Forum subscriber wants to know what other employers offer in terms of paid military leave for reservists.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Chaperone
National Average Salary: $11.05 per hour (June 2005 data)
During our careers, we’ve all probably had a run-in with a caustic man or two in the workplace. However, this caustic man isn’t full of highly critical or sarcastic remarks. The Department of Labor classifies this occupation among separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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