Fixed comp, short for fixed compensation, is the set salary or hourly wage you give an employee. It stays the same unless you give the person a raise. Variable comp is compensation that changes from […]
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I hate unlimited PTO. I hate it as an employee. I hate it as a manager. And I hate it as a founder. Unlimited PTO burns out your best employees and doesn’t actually solve any
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Employers in Ohio are not required to offer any type of PTO or sick leave to their employees. The employees with the only PTO protections in Ohio are state employees. Most of the state regulations
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A shift differential provides an increased rate of pay for a person working a specific shift outside of normal business hours. For example, nurses may get paid a shift differential for working overnight shifts. While
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Some people believe that employees are no longer eligible for overtime if they get paid a salary. This isn’t always the case, and employees and employers need to know why. The following four scenarios are
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The state of Pennsylvania does not require employers to offer PTO, sick time, vacation, bereavement, or other forms of leave. However, multiple cities in Pennsylvania do have their own sick leave laws. Pittsburgh and Philedelpiha
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Unpaid time off is when an employee takes time away from work and doesn’t get paid. Can employers deny unpaid time off requests? In most cases, yes. The main exception to this is if your
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Wisconsin employers must pay out unused PTO if their PTO policy does not include a forfeiture clause. In other words, if you added a clause to your PTO policy that says you won’t pay out
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Minnesota employers are not required to offer PTO to employees. But there is a sick leave law that you need to follow. Employers are required to: There’s lots of details and some exceptions related to
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Full-time salaried employees get 16 PTO days in the first year and 21 days in the second year. So a little over 4 weeks in the second year. Part-time hourly employees at Amazon get about
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