Five steps
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By Alison Hightower, Esq.
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Employees look forward to payday, and employers generally expect that these paychecks meet all legal requirements. In recent years, both current—and especially former—employees are bringing hyper-technical claims that their employers failed to dot the “i’s” and cross the “t’s” with respect to their pay.
This is no small matter because California’s Labor Code permits employees to recover actual damages and in some situations statutory penalties for violations of legal requirements.
But there is hope! A few steps can be taken to reduce employers' risks.
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Save the Date: December 16!
ALL ARE WELCOME to join Alison Hightower, Esq. of Littler Mendelson and Shari Dunn of CompAnalysis on Tuesday, Dec. 16, for a complimentary breakfast conversation about the legal and employee relations challenges of paying your employees in 2009.
We’ll enjoy a delicious hot breakfast buffet at Max’s Café in Oakland’s City Center (near 12th Street BART) from 7:30 – 10:00 a.m. Details will follow in a separate e-mail message. To read now, click here.
Want to sign up now? E-mail Shari or call her at 510-763-3774 X102.
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Find out how much
Bay Area fundraising professionals earn today
Are you finding it challenging to establish competitive salaries for your development staff? We know there are significant shortages of qualified fundraising professionals in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. As a result, salaries for these jobs have been skyrocketing. Our nonprofit clients have been asking for more specific data. Even if you are not a client, our guess is that you’d like to have this information, too. Read more . . .
The report is offered to non-participants for $249 and can be ordered online with a VISA or MasterCard. Click here for the 2008 CompAnalysis Fundraising Professionals Compensation Survey order form. |
Upcoming appearances |
Shari Dunn
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CompAnalysis Managing Director Shari Dunn frequently leads seminars and workshops on employee compensation and related matters. For a list of Shari’s upcoming speaking engagements, click here. |
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Most Bay Area employers say they're sticking with 2009 pay, hiring plans
In mid-October, CompAnalysis re-contacted all of its 2008 survey participants, who originally submitted pay data last summer, to get an up-to-the-minute look at how local employers are responding to current economic developments. Seventy-five organizations responded.
Given the uncertain state of the economy, many may be surprised – and encouraged – to learn that nearly three quarters of this broad cross-section of Bay Area employers have just reported they were currently sticking with plans to grant pay raises averaging 3.3 percent in 2009. Just 24% of those re-surveyed employers said they had scaled back to expected 2009 average increases of 1.2%.
Click here to find out more
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Just released -
Current, local pay and.benefits data now available to you
(Don’t forget to order your report)
We're pleased to announce that the latest edition of the 2008 CompAnalysis Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey has just been released. This is the only report that is exclusively focused on up-to-date Bay Area pay and benefits data, this year reporting salaries and related information from 154 local employers representing more than 40,000 employees within the nine Bay Area plus two Central Coast counties. |
As most of you know, the Bay Area is the highest-paid metropolitan area in the U.S. According to he latest National Compensation Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, salaries here, on average, are 19 percent higher than the national average. This means that local pay data are a must for establishing job-specific compensation levels for the jobs in your organization.
To purchase or find out more about the survey, click here.
Questions? E-mail Rita Haronian or call her at 510-763-3774 x100. |
Calling all HR pros
Please help us make our Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey as valuable a resource as possible for local employers. Just take a minute to click here and answer a few brief questions about using compensation survey data. |
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About CompAnalysis
Payroll is often one of an employer’s highest costs, making the sound strategic management of salaries critical to financial success. That’s why, as pay management consultants, our firm delivers results that directly affect your bottom line. For 28 years, our firm has helped over 750 employers to design, create, and implement pay plans that are competitive, equitable, legally defensible, motivational, and cost-effective.Our team specializes in developing strategic compensation plans, innovative performance management solutions, including pay for performance, and comprehensive labor market research and analysis.
Learn more about our firm and how we can help you achieve your goals at www.companalysis.com. |
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