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Ask the Expert: Are Cash Payments in Lieu of Benefits Part of Base Wage?

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Feb 28, 2017 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

Question: We provide employees the option to take a lump sum cash payment ($1,000/yr) in lieu of accepting benefits, payable in increments over each pay period. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has indicated those payments should be included in the base wage for purposes of calculating overtime (see Flores v. City […]

Microsoft to Boost Cash Compensation

By HR Daily Advisor Staff May 20, 2011 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: May 20, 2011

Microsoft has announced plans to shift stock awards into the base salaries for its most valuable workers, proving more cash up front, says Bloomberg. This comes amid news of increasingly competitive compensation practices in the technology sector, with Google, Twitter, and and Facebook camps looking to attract…and keep the best engineers and computer scientists. Some […]