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Additionally, HR should look for ways to provide leadership communications coaching and advise executives on employee sentiment.

“The EEOC publicly and privately expresses that it expects executives will lead from the front on this, and a lukewarm embrace of harassment-related topics could make an employer a litigation target,” he said.

To strike that balance, Mosher encouraged employers and total rewards (TR) professionals to: ;Diversify a “wage-heavy” TR package with a larger focus on benefits , career development and recognition.; ;Use technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate certain administrative HR tasks to create more space for strategic initiatives.; ;Effectively communicate the full employee value proposition to workers, including the value of non-monetary benefits — and be transparent about changes to compensation and benefits.; ;Invest in your workers’ career growth — bolstering retention and cutting back on the costs of needing to hire externally.; ;Check your work through engagement surveys to keep your finger on the pulse of employee needs and sentiment related to TR decisions.; Other strategies for TR pros, according to Sue Holloway, a compensation content director at WorldatWork, include scaling back less-utilized programs and more strongly utilizing non-monetary rewards such as

In part, we are critical of new incentives that are being implemented to compensate home office workers for office expenses.

Central to the directive is the principle of “equal pay for equal work of equal value,” aimed at eliminating pay discrimination by requiring that roles of comparable worth be compensated equally, regardless of the gender of the employee.

As such, compensation and benefit changes should be rooted in data, such as employee sentiment (gathered through focus groups, pulse surveys, interviews or TR optimizations) and benefits claims data, Dahl explained.

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