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Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

They surveyed more than 1,000 US employers to highlight 2015 seasonal hiring trends, including: 82 percent of hiring managers were planning to hire seasonal workers for this holiday season Average expected pay or holiday employees is $15.37 While seasonal hiring remains steady for 2015, hourly wages are disappointing at best.

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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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FLSA: The song (no longer) remains the same…

i4cp

Proposed regulations were released in June 2015, accepting comments until September of that year. Compliance is not an option—it is required if a company has at least two employees and annual sales of $500,000, to include workers who are "engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce" as well as various other industries (e.g.,

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Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well. Wells Fargo is just the latest company to be ethically embarrassed and financially distressed by a fiasco involving excessively motivational incentives. The moral hazard problem is not industry-specific or even an issue about incentives.

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OSHA Clarifies Guidance on Post-Incident Drug Testing and Workplace Safety Incentive Programs

General Information Services

Post-incident drug testing policies and safety incentive programs would only violate 29 C.F.R. Incentive programs may be used to promote workplace safety and health. OSHA’s new interpretation permits and encourages safety incentive programs for employees. Post-incident testing may not be used as a retaliatory measure.

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The Growing Trend of Gamification in HR

Engagedly

Tying productivity to incentives, however, offers promise as far as HR gamification is concerned. In another example, one compliance process from Google regarding business expenses underwent a gamification overall, resulting in 100% compliance from employees.

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3 Best Practices for Recruiting Millennials

Precheck

Healthcare employers can offer student loan debt assistance as an incentive to attract young talent entering the field. SoFi , a student loan refinancing company, reported that in 2015 they saw a “300% increase over the past two years in employer adoption of student loan assistance benefits.”. Get Email Updates.