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It may seem like a joke, but believe it or not Apple® hired a man named Sam Sung. It’s no secret that Apple and Samsung (the company) are bitter enemies; they’ve been fighting over copyrighted designs for the last 3 years. But ironically, Sam Sung is the one getting the last laugh.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we shared the results of our 2014 Performance Management survey; today, the rest of the results.
Minimum wage and overtime pay are two of the requirements set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA mandates that employees be paid at least the minimum wage and also that they receive one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for weekly hours over 40 hours.
“I’m grossly underpaid as these surveys show,” says your employee as he or she comes down the hall armed with a pile of downloaded survey data. Consultant Barry L. Brown, SPHR, CCP, has a plan for blunting these attacks. Of course, it may be that your compensation program is flawed, but it’s more likely that […]
Employees are satisfied. Both internal and external equity are maintained. Control is maintained over compensation costs. For a review of basic compensation program principles, we turned to Compensation.BLR.com®. Properly structured and administered, your compensation program will: Help attract top talent. Retain core employees. Encourage longevity while efficiently using financial resources. Establishing an effective compensation administration […]
What job titles current to today were nowhere to be found in 2008? This excellent Linkedin infographic examined data from 259 million members’ profiles to determine the top 10 most popular job titles that didn’t exist 5 years ago. by taniacreative. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – […]
In the last issue of CED, we considered non-exempt compensation challenges during emergency closings. Today, we’ll look at exempts and some related hassles.
A job description need not account for every task that might ever be done. Here are the most critical components of a good job description.Heading Information
California and federal law generally require that employees working over 40 hours in a workweek be paid an overtime premium rate for those additional hours. California law also requires that employees who work more than 8 hours in a day be paid overtime, and double-time if they work more than 12 hours in a day. […]
California law authorizes “alternative workweeks,” which permit employers to sidestep overtime requirements when adopting flexible schedules. But what if you have just a single employee who wants to adopt this modified schedule?