Employee Compensation

Penn State: Study: Wage gap not closing for Pennsylvania women

UWIRE-11/19/2008-Penn State: Study: Wage gap not closing for Pennsylvania women (C) 2008 Daily Collegian via UWIRE By Ashley Bressler, Daily Collegian (Penn State) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- As fear of an economic recession hits...

FDIC cracks down on OneUnited Bank (at bizjournals.com)

A federal bank regulator recently accused the management of OneUnited Bank, one of the largest black-owned banks in the country, of running an unsound lending operation and ordered a top-to-bottom review of executive perks that...

Churches should pay more.

Churches shouldn’t enforce a standard of sacrificial living by paying employees minimally. They should enable abundant, joyful generosity by paying them amply. Posted in Constructive Criticism, Following Jesus

From College Athlete to Multimillionaire

Forget the career ladder. This year's top NFL Draft pick will become one of the highest-paid players in the sport overnight You've been treading water in the same job for years, and finally the position of your dreams opens up....

Breaking: Saigon Grill Owners Arrested

If you remember in October, Saigon Grill workers were awarded a lot of money because the owners refused to pay their delivery-people and other employees minimum wage for over 70 hours of work per week...

Federal employees earn fattest paycheques

Public sector workers earn substantially more than their private sector counterparts in similar jobs, says a new study that urges governments to rein in wage increases and expand no-strike legislation to more workers as the...

Economic woes will foster more union battles

It is no coincidence that the sectors, industries and companies most affected by the economic downturn -- with some writhing in their death throes -- are unionized. It is the culmination of an industrial recession that has...

No increase in pay, HP staff told

Bangalore: The world’s largest personal computers maker, Hewlett-Packard Co., or HP, will not offer annual salary increases due in February to employees, including those in India, where around one-fifth of its workforce is...

Auditors: Not enough oversight for bailout

Treasury Department has no mechanism track taxpayer money, report says The government must toughen its monitoring of the bailout to ensure that banks limit executives’ pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors...

GM Needs $12 Billion By March

Auto Sales Slump In November POSTED: 5:04 am EST December 2, 2008 UPDATED: 9:51 pm EST December 2, 2008 General Motors said it needs $4 billion in government loans this month and a total of $12 billion by late March to keep...