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Ripped from Today's Global Headlines: Lessons on Executive Pay Ratio Communications

Compensation Cafe

You can expect the Executive Pay Ratio and Median Employee to be used as anchors for comparison. In July 2017, the BBC published the salaries of its highest paid "stars," showing those paid £150,000 and over. As we have talked in many Compensation Cafe articles, people use numbers as "anchors" for comparative purposes. The lesson?

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

At the beginning of the book, the authors provided this confusing definition of adverse impact: “Adverse impact (unintentional) discrimination occurs when identical standards or procedures are applied to everyone, even though they lead to a substantial difference in employment outcomes (e.g., The adverse impact ratio is SR 1 /SR 2 =.10/.20

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Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: The Importance of Gender Pay Equity

UKG

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act : Another gender equity employment law that helped strengthen the Equal Pay Act was the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which outlawed discrimination based on pregnancy when it comes to paying, hiring, promoting, training, providing benefits, and assigning job placements for women.