Compensation

September 7, 2017

Earlier this year, The HR Digest posted an insightful article on burned out and overworked nonprofit workers. With the article came accolades of appreciation, gratification, and an influx of letters asking for ...

Can You Fire An Employee For Discussing Salary With Coworkers?

August 28, 2017

Can you fire an employee for discussing salary with coworkers? In some cases, yes. In fact, most “at will” employed Americans don’t realize this but they can be fired at any time, for any reason, as long as c...

Tricks employers use to pay less salary

August 8, 2017

Bosses continue to actively and deceptively trick employees, paycheck after paycheck, to pay less salary. Companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s have been caught systematically finding ways to shortchange fro...

Can you get fired for no reason at all?

August 1, 2017

Yes. You can get fired for no reason at all. Your employer does not need a reason to fire you. In most of the United States, employees are generally under ‘at-will’ employment. Unfortunately, as an “at-will” em...

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40 Questions to Ask Before You Accept A Job Offer

July 24, 2017

Congratulations! You’ve made it through the most difficult part of the job hunt. All the job applications, interview rounds, and thank-you notes have paid off! Now, it might be tempting to jump right in and acc...

6 Different Types of Compensation Plans & Benefits

July 21, 2017

Long ago, we wrote about the importance of a compensation plan in an organization. I thought we’d follow up on that post by exploring the six different types of compensation plans in depth. In many companies, b...

Job Hopping Makes Sense Only When You’re Not Getting Paid Enough

July 17, 2017

Recession, inflation and a change in lifestyle are some of the many factors why people change jobs more often. Every single person reading this article did the same thing (or will) at some point in their career...

7 Important Lifestyle Changes to Save Money Easily

June 26, 2017

Compensation, Featured, Strategy, Trends

There is no doubt in the fact that we earn a living. Well, there are other different purposes also for which we really toil hard to earn something. One of them is savings. Yes, savings is probably the most impo...

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New York City Uber Drivers to Get their Refunds after Uber Admits Mis-calculations

May 24, 2017

Compensation, Featured, News

Uber being drown in a pool of negative controversies is not something that journalists have done out of choice. It is the things that the company does or revelations that it comes up with that compel news headl...

California Wage Orders Revised – Reflect an Increase in the Minimum Wage

May 5, 2017

Compensation, Featured, News

To reflect the increases in the 2017 and 2018 state minimum wage, the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) recently updated many Wage Orders. These updated California Wage Orders include orders f...

Before Accepting the Minimum, Know Your Worth