Increasing the minimum wage does not improve the skills and contributions of those who currently earn the minimum wage – but increasing an organization’s minimum wage may be essential to achieving needed levels of productivity and performance. Organizations of all types need to understand, from a business perspective, why being cheap is rarely the right […]
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How do we take the economy into account… again?
October 30, 2012 
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Nearly ever week I get asked the question “how should we take the economy into account when evaluating our pay structure?” The fact that this question was actually asked means that there is a fundamental lack of understanding about the way pay structures are designed, assuming of course that the structure in question was designed […]
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October 30, 2012 0 Comments
According to multiple sources, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in concert with other agencies, is launching an aggressive campaign to identify and prosecute cases of gender-based pay inequities. While concern about equal pay for equal work is an old one, reaching back as far as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, it has recently resurfaced […]
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