What Does It Mean to be ‘Competitive’ with Employee Pay?
Many jobs today—and perhaps some your company has posted—list the pay as “competitive.” But what does that mean, exactly?
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The 2014 Recruiting and Retention Survey Is In … How Do You Compare?
Recruiting and retaining top employees is a cornerstone of every successful organization—and it’s only going to get more challenging as we enter 2015. How do your recruiting practices stack up against what others are doing in today’s war for talent?
Do Your Employees Know These Four Tips for Delivering Bad News?
Bad news is no fun to deliver. That’s why even distinguished leaders and otherwise successful people will go to great lengths to avoid doing it. For example, you make excuses to hold on to an underperforming employee. And admit it: You’ve almost certainly hung around in a problematic personal relationship (romantic or platonic) longer […]
Survey Says … Results of the Recruiting and Retention Survey 2014
With the arrival of 2015, recruiting and retaining top employees will be critical to your organization’s success—and it’s going to get more competitive as the economy improves. How do you compare when it comes to recruiting practices?
Thanks for the Great Service! Forget a Tip; Here’s a Car!
If you’ve ever seen Reservoir Dogs, the opening scene is all about tipping the waitress.
Implementing Pay Grades and Ranges: Common Pay Structure Issues
Do you use pay grades? If you’re just starting to implement such a system, you may be confused about where to even begin.
BFOQ FTW
YOU are a seasoned HR pro. YOU understand the difference between Internet slang–omg, imho, lmao–and the Title VII defense of BFOQ. We must discuss the BFOQ exception–bona fide occupational qualification–in the wake of the Abu Dhabi adventures of actress, singer, and ex-Biebs girl Selena Gomez. ICYMI (see what I did there?), a picture surfaced of […]
Commissions during the notice period: contractual language rules
By Thora A. Sigurdson In Sciancamerli v. Comtech (Communication Technologies) Ltd., 2014 BCSC 2140, a specialized salesperson was terminated without cause after 10 months’ service. He sued for wrongful dismissal. At trial, the main issues were the length of notice for a short-term salesperson and his entitlement, if any, to commission payments during the notice […]
9th Circuit Reverses Ruling on Participant’s Claim for Surcharge
Plan participants can recover personal, rather than plan, losses under arguments of “surcharge,” the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled, reversing an earlier opinion, which had been at odds with other federal circuits. On Dec. 16, the circuit court handed down the new ruling in Gabriel v. Alaska Elec. Pension Fund, 2014 WL 7139686 (9th […]
Ongoing Training on Job Descriptions Keeps Employees Engaged
Ongoing training about job descriptions is “essential, since no job remains exactly the same from year to year,” say Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, business, marketing, and corporate training experts and coauthors of The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways to Engage and Empower Your People. In fact, since “job descriptions are typically out of date […]