•As an HR professional, recommend at least three (3) steps you can take to ensure that your company's pay program is fair and equitable. Provide a rationale for your response.
Review your job descriptions for accuracy and completeness. Compare them to advertised job postings for similar positions to ensure they contain comparable duties, skills and qualifications. Search similar positions and salary levels on job boards and career pages for professional associations.
Assess whether your proposed pay scales are competitive and in line with positions that require similar levels of expertise and experience. Subscribe to employer surveys conducted by compensation and benefit research institutes for up-to-the-minute wage and salary information specific to your locale or industry.
Research median wages for jobs using resources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces wage information for thousands of jobs according to occupation, industry and locale. Gather additional information from salary websites such as PayScale.com and Salary.com.
•Determine the legal requirements that an organization must meet when establishing a pay structure. Speculate on the requirement that you believe is most challenging for organizations to meet. Provide a rationale for your response -Pay employees in accordance with their contract of employment. The contract will cover areas such as time to be worked,