Insightful blog posts about compensation strategy, pay equity, and other compensation related information.
By Trüpp The rise of remote work and distributed teams has fundamentally changed how organizations build their workforce. Employers are no longer restricted by geographical boundaries in their hiring process, and numerous organizations routinely operate in multiple states. While [...]
Compensation studies are among the most visible and high-stakes initiatives an HR leader will undertake in higher education. Unlike in corporate environments, where authority over pay structures sits squarely within executive [...]
Why is job architecture important? Today’s business landscape applies significant pressure on organizations to establish scalable compensation models that comply with increasing pay equity and transparency regulations. Savvy business leaders recognize that the key to success often lies with [...]
By Trüpp In today’s competitive and fast-evolving labor market, compensation isn’t just a transactional necessity, it’s a powerful strategic tool that shapes your organization's success. Companies that treat compensation as a proactive, data-informed lever are better equipped to attract [...]
By Jean Roque, President at Trüpp When a company lacks a framework and clarity around how pay decisions are made, it can place the organization at a disadvantage for attracting and retaining talent, maintaining employee pay equity, and targeting [...]
Pay transparency laws are becoming common at the state level, promoting fair and equitable workplace practices. These laws help to ensure employees better understand how compensation is determined, address pay disparities, and improve workplace morale. According to a late [...]
Navigating the complexities of multi-state employment laws and maintaining HR compliance can be a daunting task. With regulations varying significantly across federal, state, and local levels, managing HR compliance for a multi-state workforce is particularly challenging. Employers and HR [...]
By TrüppNovember 2024 updateOn November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Biden administration's 2024 Overtime Rule, which aimed to raise the minimum salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards [...]
By Trüpp November 2024 update On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Biden administration's 2024 Overtime Rule, which aimed to raise the minimum salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the [...]
By Trüpp Maintaining pay equity is crucial for ensuring a fair and inclusive workplace. Pay equity not only fosters a sense of transparency and equality among employees but also enhances overall organizational performance and reputation. In addition to posting [...]
When navigating the ever-evolving landscape of employment regulations, it is imperative for employers to stay up-to-date on employment law updates that significantly impact workplace policies and practices. Groundbreaking components of employment regulations are reshaping the legal framework surrounding employment [...]
By Trüpp In today's competitive job market, ensuring fair compensation practices is paramount for attracting and retaining a skilled workforce. Employees who perceive pay disparities within their organization are more likely to become disengaged, seek alternative employment, share their [...]
A well-designed compensation program is critical to ensuring equitable and sound pay practices. When planned effectively, it will facilitate your recruiting efforts and align with your goals and values, ensuring you have the right people in place to drive [...]
By Trüpp Job descriptions provide a clear understanding of the expectations and responsibilities associated with a particular role. They guide employees, enabling them to understand how their position fits within the context of a larger team or department. But [...]
By Audra Hedberg, PHR, PHRca, Vice President of Services Employment laws have become increasingly complex, requiring greater expertise and specialization from HR professionals. Finance is no exception; the Society for Human Resource Management found that financial services workers had [...]
By Trüpp When an organization goes through a merger or acquisition, a lot of responsibility falls to HR leaders. They must address a number of crucial areas which include: Consistency in benefits offerings and administration Cohesive and compliant compensation [...]
By Trüpp Visit a job postings site like Indeed or LinkedIn, and you’ll quickly notice that many job postings include a salary range. This isn’t exactly new. Providing pay ranges upfront is a natural progression of pay equity laws. [...]
The final minimum wage increases from Senate Bill 1532 will be effective July 01, 2022. The bill passed in 2016 has increased the minimum wage annually starting July 01, 2016, and continues through to July 01, 2022. These increases [...]
By Jean Roque, President + Founder at Trüpp Compensation is a highly specialized aspect of human resources that requires strengths in areas such as analysis, Excel and/or database systems, compensation practices and plan design, labor laws, pay equity, incentive [...]
Trupp HR. Although determining an employee’s base pay may seem straightforward, this seemingly simple decision becomes complicated when factoring in the current labor market, internal equity, and your organization’s compensation philosophy and pay practices. To establish base pay while [...]
Many states and municipalities will have an increase to minimum wage requirements in 2022. These increases are likely to have a significant impact on employers. Begin preparing now for these increases to ensure compliance. Determine employees who will be [...]
By Jean Roque, President + Founder at Trüpp A side-effect of the pandemic, the Great Resignation, has turned the tables on hiring talent. Employers are finding they no longer have the upper hand when it comes to recruiting new [...]
By Trüpp’s Compensation Team The trend toward remote work is not new but was dramatically accelerated in 2020 as organizations pivoted to adapt to the pandemic. Because many organizations saw positive outcomes, we now see businesses embracing remote workers [...]
Senate Bill 1532, passed in 2016, set in motion a plan to increase the minimum wage annually. Increases began July 01, 2016, and continue through July 01, 2022. These increases differ by region. The most recent increase went into [...]
Recent events have turned a spotlight on equality across the nation. As a result, pay equity has been getting increased attention. We have seen strict state-specific pay equity laws put into place over the last few years. While pay equity [...]
By Jean Roque, President at Trüpp Employee pay can be an extremely challenging topic for business leaders, especially for small to mid-sized organizations where compensation decisions may be more ad hoc. In today’s market, leaders often find themselves making hasty [...]
Effective July 01, 2020, many states and municipalities will have an increase to minimum wage requirements. These increases are likely to have a significant impact on employers. Begin preparing now for these increases to ensure a smooth compliance process. [...]
Senate Bill 1532, passed in 2016, set in motion a plan to increase the minimum wage annually. Increases began July 01, 2016, and will continue through July 01, 2022. These increases differ by region. The next increase goes into [...]
By Audra Hedberg, PHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP, Senior Compliance Consultant at Trüpp An employer's guide to implementing hazard pay While many businesses are facing drastic cuts or even closing completely, others are fortunate to continue business operations including online retailers, grocery [...]
By Trüpp's Shared Services Team. As we mentioned in our recent article, ALERT: Form W-4 updated again for 2020, the IRS released a new version of the 2020 Form W-4 for January 1, 2020. It was designed to simplify the [...]
By Audra Hedberg, HR Compliance Consultant, Trüpp. Washington state leads the way for employment law Washington state has taken dramatic steps to increase the minimum salary for overtime-exempt employees. Effective July 1, 2020, Washington's overtime exemption regulations were amended [...]
By Audra Hedberg, HR Compliance Consultant, Trüpp. Misclassification of employees is costly In light of the U.S. DOL releasing its final rule amending the overtime provisions of the FLSA, now is a good time to carefully review how your [...]
By Jean Roque, President, Trüpp. The FLSA final rule has been released As most employers are aware, the final regulations regarding overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have been released by the Department [...]
By Jean Roque, President, Trüpp. Updated for 2019. Navigating employee pay decisions without the guidance of a sound compensation strategy can feel frustrating. While finding the right solutions can be challenging to see, you can likely recognize the symptoms of [...]
By Jessica Spellins, Trüpp. When making compensation decisions, you’ve likely heard—and perhaps used the phrase, “it depends." Do we cover moving expenses? It depends. Can we factor in additional education when setting pay? It depends. Does position ‘X' qualify [...]
By Demi Hanes, Trüpp. Pay equity laws are going into effect around the country, increasing the likelihood of a law or a regulation being created that will affect your business (if it hasn't already). Be proactive by addressing your [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. An organization’s compensation program is only effective when it maintains alignment with the needs of the business, supports talent management objectives, and adheres to legal requirements. Unfortunately, this requires ongoing attention to ensure the company’s [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. Additional requirements will be added to Washington’s equal pay law on July 28, 2019. This expansion will include further steps to contribute toward gender equality in employee pay. The changes are focused on salary history inquiries, [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. A couple years back, the U.S. women’s soccer team began their fight for equal pay. Since then, members of the team have emerged as role models and valuable resources for addressing this issue in women’s sports [...]
By Kate Reichert, Compensation Consultant, Trüpp. When writing a job description, think first about the duties and responsibilities that are most important and take up the majority of time. If there is a task that is done only about 10% [...]
By Kate Reichert, Compensation Consultant, Trüpp. Job descriptions tend to be one of those things that end up at the bottom of the priority list. They’re time consuming to write, not to mention there is little guidance around how to [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. Like many employers, you may want to commit your organization to equal pay but are unsure of the exact steps to take to put together a long-term strategy. To create a pay equity strategy that [...]
By Michael White, HR Outsourcing Manager, Trüpp.The Oregon Pay Equity law makes it unlawful to:Discriminate (based on an employee’s status as a member of protected class) in the payment of wages or other compensation for work of comparable characterPay wages [...]
By Sally Padrow, HR Business Partner, Trüpp. Employee separations have the potential of a company-wide ripple effect. The leadership team questions what they could have done to see this coming, managers scramble to transition projects, HR begins the process for [...]
By Kate Reichert, HR Business Partner & Compensation Specialist, Trüpp. One of the biggest banes of my existence as a compensation professional would have to be job titles. A good title and one that is legally sound will reflect the [...]
By Kate Reichert, HR Business Partner & Compensation Specialist, Trüpp. It’s happened to all of us. Fatefully, an employee comes to us and shares that they’ve seen salary data online and demands their pay be at “market”. Often, these employees [...]
Portland, Oregon – September 28, 2017 – Trupp HR, Inc. is pleased to announce the recent launch of its Pay Equity Service offering. Trüpp’s Pay Equity Services are designed to help businesses get ahead of the equal pay legislation trend sweeping the [...]
By Kate Reichert, Trüpp. Imagine a world without salary negotiations As I sit in a conference room with my team discussing the implications of the new Pay Equity Act that was recently signed into law in the state of Oregon [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. The Oregon Equal Pay Act of 2017 (House Bill 2005) has officially been signed into law with the purpose of reducing unfair pay differences and expanding protections for employees susceptible to discriminatory pay practices. Most provisions [...]
By Calvin Gower, Trüpp. Whether it should be legal to ask job applicants about their salary history remains a hot topic of debate in today's labor market. Since we posted our article, Should it be illegal to ask about [...]
By Jean Roque, President, Trupp HR. Many think so. On September 14, 2016—just over a month after Massachusetts passed an equal-pay law that prohibits employers from asking about salary histories during the job interview process—the Pay Equity for All Act of [...]
As increases to federal, state, and local minimum wages march on, considerable energy has been expended debating the social and economic pros and cons. While business leaders may feel as though they have little influence over minimum wage hikes, [...]
The perfect storm will be converging on employers this year—a shortage of skilled labor available for hire, an aging workforce who will be exiting their jobs, taking with them years of knowledge, and a high percentage of employees who will [...]
By Jean Roque, President, Trupp HR. "Employee turnover is expected to hit 21% in 2014—up four points from 2013." It’s not easy to loosen the belt after pulling through a recession that may have cut deep into your organization, but [...]
By Calvin Gower, Marketing Assistant, Trupp HR. Every successful business wants to attract and retain top talent, creating a positive work environment where employees can thrive and effectively contribute to organizational goals. But having competitive benefits and salaries is only [...]
By Jean Roque, Trupp HR. If your company is like most, the holy grail of attracting, engaging and retaining top talent may still be eluding you. In my experience of working with small and growing businesses, I have noticed a [...]
By Jenny Sherman, Trupp HR. Once an organization has established a well-rounded compensation and benefits package that aligns with organizational goals, it is essential to develop a communication strategy to build employee understanding. This is important because employees who grasp [...]
By Tom Faricy, SPHR, Trupp HR. On March 13, 2013, the Portland City Council unanimously voted to approve a new sick leave ordinance, providing protections for sick leave for all employees, and mandatory paid sick time for employees of businesses [...]
By Jean Roque, President, Trupp HR. Looking ahead to the new year, we predict increasing pressure on employers, large and small, to retain and motivate their top talent. Current statistics indicate as much as 50% of your employees may be [...]
