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Embarking into a New Era of Work with Salary Transparency Laws

HR Digest

Salary transparency laws have become a hot topic in recent years, with many countries implementing regulations to promote pay equity and address the gender pay gap. These laws vary by jurisdiction but typically require employers to share salary ranges for specific job positions or provide employees with access to salary data.

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The Payday Puzzle: Solving Employee Compensation and Benefits

HR Digest

Managing employee benefits and compensation is an essential function for any organization that wants to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. Employee compensation and benefits are critical components of an organization’s total rewards package, which is a key factor in employee satisfaction and engagement.

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Salary Benchmarking Guide - Importance, Process, Challenges, and Trends

Empuls

Salary benchmarking is when HR compares the organization's pay levels with market rates for similar jobs. It helps ensure fair compensation for employees and offers a competitive advantage. Importance of salary benchmarking One can summarize the importance of salary benchmarking as follows: 1.

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How Do Companies Determine Salary?

Take It Personel-ly

If you’re a first-time employer, you’re probably feeling a bit stressed about determining the salary for your employees. This isn’t due to a lack of money. It’s due, instead, to poor financial management. Ultimately, the goal is to set […].

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Stop asking for candidates’ salary history

Achievers

There’s a common question during recruitment conversations that all job candidates dread: “What is your current salary?” The issue is that salary history is a very personal, and often misleading, data point for recruiters to gather.

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Is Open Salaries and Pay Transparency a Good Idea?

HR Digest

The ongoing calls for salary transparency as a cure for pay inequity are actually creating confusion among employers. Salary transparency is a double-edged sword; it could bring motivation and demotivation at the same time. Focusing on peers, the survey recorded massive demotivating effects of learning other’s salaries.

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Payroll vs Compensation: The sempiternal HRIS conundrum

Ahmed's Universe

However, one can safely adopt the following rules of thumb: Gross versus net : Compensation, and therefore your new HR system, should definitely hold your gross salary and similar items (such as allowances), whereas the net amount will be held by your local payroll. There may be as many answers as there are unique circumstances.

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