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November 30, 2009

Temporary Employee Laws

<h1 class="subhead"><a href="http://blogs.payscale.com/compensation/2009/11/temporary-employee-laws.html" style="float: left"><img alt="Temporary Employee Laws" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf85853ef0120a74512c5970b " src="http://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef0120a74512c5970b-800wi.png" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px" title="Temporary Employee Laws" /></a> Legal Smarts: Hiring Temporary Employees</h1> The holidays are coming up, which can mean hiring temporary workers in retail and other industries. Do you know how to protect yourself against claims of unfair pay, benefits requests payments, and other temporary employee legal issues? Temporary employee laws abound so it’s important that you’re well informed. Here are some of the A-B-C’s of law relating to temporary employees that will help keep your company off of Santa’s “naughty” list this season.

March 23, 2015

Bottoms up! How to reward and retain achievers at all levels

<img title="BlogHeader3_17-2" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/blogheader3_17-2.jpg?sfvrsn=0"><a target="_blank" rel="author noopener" href="https://www.payscale.com/author/tess-c-taylor-phr-the-hr-writer">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer </a>It’s easy to focus on the top performing employees in the organization. After all, this is where the magic happens. But what if you spent some extra time evaluating the bottom level of employee performance to see what’s going on there? Perhaps there are some ways to boost performance by incentivizing lower-performing employees, thereby creating a new crop of achievers.

March 7, 2011

Employee Pay for Multiple Jobs

<h1 class="subhead">Pay for Employees Performing More than One Job Q&A</h1> If you have employees who want to work additional jobs for extra pay, you need to make sure you are paying them properly. Nonexempt employees may be owed overtime, while exempt employees generally can be paid the extra compensation without affecting their exempt status.

February 10, 2020

Definitions of Employee Classification

Employees usually are classified according to the hours worked and the expected duration of the job. Accordingly, they generally fall into three major categories: full-time, part-time, and temporary employees.

November 15, 2012

Salary Bands/Pay Bands and Variable Compensation: A Manager’s Guide to Attracting Talent

<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://featherfiles.aviary.com/2012-11-14/f77694d11/5d51acd1080b44f38196e15011b2aeed_hires.png"><img alt="Pay bands" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf85853ef017c337d1d5e970b image-full" src="http://www.payscale.com/content/blog/images/a6a00d8341bf85853ef017c337d1d5e970b-800wi.png" title="Pay bands" /></a> Jessica Miller-Merrell, <a href="http://www.blogging4jobs.com" target="_self" rel="noopener">Blogging4Jobs</a> If you’re in the business of giving or receiving (or hoping to receive) an annual merit increase, it’s a good time to get familiar with pay bands. Pay bands — a term that is sometimes used to lump broader terms such as pay levels, ranges or grades — is a component of an organized salary compensation structure. For example, an administrative position at a software company might include receptionists, office assistants and executive assistants. Those jobs are categorized together and given a predetermined minimum and maximum (Pay Band 1 = $12-$18 per hour).

January 29, 2014

Fair and square! 5 ways to boost your bonus program

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_holidaybonus.gif" alt="header_holidaybonus"><a target="_blank" rel="author noopener" href="https://www.payscale.com/author/tess-c-taylor-phr-the-hr-writer" style="line-height: 1.5;">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer</a>How well is your company doing at fairly handling the employee bonus and incentive program? To help you figure out that answer, first ask yourself this question: Do you have a way of tracking the perks you hand out to employees so that you know you are doing this well? If your company chooses to use bonuses as part of a compensation program, but you are not effectively managing this with data, you could be missing the mark.