What’s Your Market Position?
By Sharon McKnight, CCP, SPHR One of the primary elements of any compensation philosophy is the company’s stance on employee pay relative to the market. Essentially, there are three options: lead, lag, and lead-lag.
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The Challenge with Internal Candidate Referrals
With the unemployment rate at historic lows, companies are often finding themselves struggling to fill key positions with qualified talent, and they have implemented a number of strategies to help fill the void.
The Business Case for Transparency
Pay transparency in private sectors is a divisive topic. Employers worry that implementing full pay transparency—allowing every employee to view what his or her colleagues earn—in the workplace will foster resentment among team members and limit employers’ bargaining power in recruitment.
Make Your Organization’s Mission about Employees
When it comes to developing a solid company culture, it helps if you have a proper mission statement. After all, mission statements are not just for nonprofits anymore.
Trump Takes Aim at ACA on First Day in Office
Following his inauguration Friday, President Trump signed his first round of executive orders, including one directing federal agencies to ease enforcement of some Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements.
‘It’s not in my job description!’ 5 Positives–and 3 Negatives–of Job Descriptions
Job descriptions are the basis for so much of what we do in HR, yet—if we’re not careful—they can also be the basis for severe and expensive problems. Today, the accent is on the positive. Tomorrow? Well, we’ll see. Susan M. Heathfield, HR consultant and speaker, shares her five positives and three negatives of job […]
The Risks of Losing an Exemption
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) dictates minimum wage and overtime requirements, but it also allows for exemptions when specific requirements are met. Employers utilize these exemptions for qualified positions by classifying the employee as exempt—which means that individual will no longer be subject to overtime pay requirements. As long as all the qualifications within […]
Work Smarter, Not Harder: How Automation Can Improve HR Departments
COVID-19 has left HR departments to deal with many urgent issues over the past 2 years, like the loss of talent and the immediate need to bolster recruitment efforts. While these tasks are time-consuming even in the best of circumstances, the increase in work brought on by the pandemic has HR departments dedicating more efforts […]
Deducting Cost of Uniform from Final Paycheck
Can we provide employees with a notice at termination that advises them that if uniforms are not returned within 72 hours of termination that the uniform cost will be withheld from the final check?
Repeat It Back to Me
Virtually all managers have experienced situations in which an employee failed to follow instructions. While there are certainly cases in which an employee was simply negligent or disobedient, it’s also extremely common for the underlying issue to be miscommunication. The manager believes he or she communicated one thing, but the employee thinks he or she […]