When overpaid executives made off with the life savings of investors and employees, two words--'Enron' and 'transparency'--took on new meanings. The Enron scandal, and others like it, caused public pressure that resulted in laws designed to make sure the public could keep an eye on just how much executives earned, and what exactly they do with their stock holdings. The zeal to address problems with non-qualified deferred compensation for these big fish has increased our ability to keep watch. But it soon became apparent that some smaller fish were unwittingly caught up in the net, too.
HR professionals believe that employers currently have the upper hand over job candidates when it comes to negotiating salary, according to a recent poll on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com.
More American workers are living paycheck to paycheck than they did last year, according to a new survey. And many of them don't save as much as a penny in a given month.
The median budget for salary increases in 2009 is projected to be 3.8 percent for exempt employees and 3.75 percent for non-exempt salaried and hourly employees, according to a new survey report.
Thirty percent of employers say they either never update employees or keep their employees "in the dark" on financial results, according to a recent survey on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com.
Findings of a recently released study suggest that employee satisfaction is impacted more by an individual?s pay relevant to his or her peers than the individual?s absolute (or actual) pay.
Well over half of human resources professionals believe that they are underpaid, according to the combined results of a recent HR.BLR.com/Compensation.BLR.com poll.
