This article first appeared in Louisville Business First. Employee retention is essential to workforce stability and prudent compensation management regardless of labor market conditions. But when the labor market is tight in a robust economy – when employees are more likely to look for better pa...
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This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business Call it a perfect storm: As employee "quits" reach high levels in a strong economy while gender pay equity issues come to the forefront, employers are finally getting serious about their fair pay practices. Here's how these factors are convergi...
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This article first appeared in The Republic City officials have taken the first step to increase the pay of 11 city workers to the minimum level of a proposed new salary scale. Driving this plan is the city’s hope to be more competitive with other similar-sized municipalities in the hiring of emp...
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This article first appeared in The Republic Gender pay equality remains elusive more than 50 years since passage of the Equal Pay Act, and nearly 10 years since the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act became law. And despite widespread awareness of the “gender pay gap”, many companies continue to do ...
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With five generations in today's workforce, it can be challenging to manage them fairly and effectively. To address their work/life, compensation, and total employee rewards expectations, you must first define their differences and understand their divergent needs. Traditionalists (aka "The Silen...
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This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business' "Perspectives" The revised overtime rule proposed by the Department of Labor under the Obama administration was recently struck down by the same U.S. District Judge who put its implementation on hold in November last year. The rule would have ...
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This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business' "Perspectives" The good news? Overall U.S. employee job satisfaction continues to rank highly at 89 percent. The not-so-good news? There's a wide gap between those who rate satisfaction with compensation as very important (61 percent) and thos...
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This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business' "Perspectives" Employee loyalty may be at an all-time low. While a recent Deloitte study found that 78 percent of business leaders rate employee retention as important or urgent, large portions of an increasingly transient workforce seem ready...
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This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business' "Perspectives" Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing is certain "except death and taxes." For modern-day corporate employers, however, compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act's new overtime regulations is just as mandatory - and perha...
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, a U.S. District Judge suspended the December 1, 2016 implementation date of overtime rule changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act. While many businesses may be breathing a sigh of relief because they were in danger of non-compliance, the judge's order...
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For Immediate Release TOTAL REWARD SOLUTIONS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS IN BUSINESS Indianapolis based company, Total Reward Solutions, consults with companies on their compensation, benefits, and performance management systems and helps them understand, analyze and plan how to handle changes in co...
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Cassandra Faurote | President and Founder Cassandra Faurote is a seasoned human resources consultant with 25+ years in human resources and is the Founder and President of Total Reward Solutions, started in 2005. Total Reward Solutions is a consulting company focused on helping clients in the area...
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