The Compensation Times

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 […]

Just saw an update from a compensation survey service I subscribe to that said “it is no accident that job evaluation, skill-based pay valuations, job analyses, and other esoteric approaches have waned in the last decades, only to be replaced with competitive pricing focused on salary surveys,” and further goes on to assert that years […]

As every one of my clients has heard at one time or another, I plan on writing a book some day, and it’s going to have a chapter entitled “management spends 95% of its time on the 5% of its employees that provide the least value.”   I will certainly need a more pithy chapter […]

In this series of posts, I’ll identify practices in organizations that may be a waste of precious employee compensation resources.  Today I’ll cover a policy I ran into recently while talking to one of my clients, one that I hope will soon be a “former policy” for them — the practice of paying employees extra […]