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How to Improve Employee Engagement in the Manufacturing Industry?

Empuls

At the moment, manufacturing companies are dealing with many challenges such as labor shortages, skill gaps, high turnover rates, and more. To soften these blows as much as possible, employee engagement in the manufacturing industry becomes critical. Manufacturing jobs can be physically demanding.

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Common terms include wages, salaries, benefits, fringe benefit, and remuneration or earnings—often used interchangeably—but they are all referring to the same thing: money paid by the employer to a worker or on behalf of a worker as part of compensation for labour/work performed. Wages and salaries cost employers $25.22

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Expert Q&A: Understanding the DOL’s Overtime Rules

HR Digest

The overtime rules went into effect on January 1, 2020. Under the new proposal, people earning a salary level of $679 for 40 hours per week (about $35,308 annually), will be eligible for overtime pay based on varied duties. Six discussions were held, and it was decided that the present compensation for overtime was inadequate.

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Overtime Pay: Exempt Vs. Non-Exempt

BerniePortal

*This blog is adapted from the second episode of HR Party of One , Overtime Pay: Exempt Vs. Non-Exempt, which you can view below. You probably already heard that the Department of Labor released a final rule last year that increased the overtime wage threshold, and many organizations are going to face some changes related to that new rule.

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How Salary Agreements are made in Australia

Global People Strategist

Starting in March 2020 there will be some new changes to the way that annual salary arrangements are structured in Australia across a variety of industries. It is important to note that this new legislation has created clear limitations surrounding overtime hours.

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Limited vs. Unlimited Contract in UAE

Bayzat

Salary: The salary of the employee is fixed for the duration of the contract and cannot be changed unless both parties mutually agree upon it. Benefits: The unlimited contract usually comes with benefits such as great job security, annual leave entitlement, overtime pay, sick leave, and end-of-service benefits, such as gratuity pay.

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Labor Code in Iceland

Global People Strategist

Iceland is a country primarily supported by fisheries and manufacturing industries which allow for the harvesting and export of marine products and goods. Overtime work, however, is limited to 48-hours per week. The overtime pay rate per hour in Iceland is 1.0385% of the regular monthly wage. Contract of Employment.