Becca Nesslar August 6, 2019 Employee Pay and Compensation, Uncategorized 0
More great news for workers in Illinois! Last week, Illinois passed legislation which prohibits employers from asking applicants about their pay history during the hiring process. The No Salary History law is an important step in closing the racial and gender wage gaps.
Before this law, employers could ask an applicant questions about their salary history. This helped to perpetuate lower …
Kendra Kutko February 1, 2016 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Workplace Discrimination 0
With new generations emerging in the workforce, shifts in corporate thinking have begun to occur that have many talking. One of those shifts is toward the adoption of greater transparency between management and employees. The thinking about transparency has started to change in one particularly controversial area: employee salaries.
Most companies treat compensation information as one of the most strictly protected, …
Kate Sedey March 18, 2015 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 0
The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II
Just wanted to post a quick update to our ongoing blog series addressing the ways in which employers and courts have been eating away at earned bonuses by reliance on language providing employers with absolute discretion in awarding incentive compensation.
Yesterday, in McCleary v. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 2015 Ill. App. (1st) 141287-U (Ill. App. 1st Dist. …
Kate Sedey February 23, 2015 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Counseling, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 0
A number of years ago, we published a blog setting out several tools employers have used to deny employees what we believe are earned bonuses as well as some ideas about legal principles on which an employee might rely to get those bonuses back. For that complete blog post, scroll to the bottom of this page. Now more than five years later, …
Kate Sedey November 22, 2013 Blog, Employment Law 0
Recognizing An Employer Doing Right
We just wanted to start the weekend off on a positive note this morning. So instead of posting about the unjust, unfair, or plain old ugly side of the working world, today we are shining a light on one of the good guys.
I’m sure that by now, many of you have heard that Costco is a …
Kate Sedey February 11, 2010 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Compensation, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 6
The Vanishing Earned Bonus [Part I] – And How to Get it Back!
Every year, around this time we start to get calls from employees who have not only lost their jobs but have also been denied their year-end bonus, which so many families depend on in budgeting their lives. Employers use all kinds of tricks to withhold what employees rightly feel …