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Reevaluating Incentive Plan Criteria A significant portion of executive and employee compensation typically comes in the form of long-term incentive (LTI) compensation earned over an extended period (generally three to five years).

Proposed Threshold as Expected Natalie Bare, a class action and employment law litigator for the Duane Morris law firm, said the DOL’s proposed overtime rule isn’t surprising, noting that it includes exactly what the DOL has long said it would include: an increase to the standard minimum salary level, an increase to the “highly compensated” employee total annual compensation threshold and an automatic process for future increases.

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Refocusing M&A Retention Strategies To comply with noncompete rules and minimize risks of losing key employees, attorneys at Hunton Andrews Kurth recommend that employers take steps now to: ;Evaluate existing employee agreements and ensure they're tailored as appropriate to protect legitimate business interests, with new means of incentivizing performance and promoting retention.; ;Consider providing incentives through strategies like compensative-tied employment over a given time frame, equity rollovers or equity grants and consulting agreements with restrictive covenants (other than noncompetes).; The bottom line is that reliance on employment agreements such as noncompetes, which emphasize the “stick” approach to retaining employees, may shift to retention agreements that instead rely on “carrots” designed to influence the employee’s continued employment through compensation and other enticements.

Getting goal setting right during these periods of uncertainty is one of the most important aspects of a sound compensation program.

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Unintended Consequences There’s a certain irony that can play out when the minimum wage is increased, said Justin Sun, a global compensation adviser at Expedia.

Compensation Spend Percentage = (Total Compensation Spend / Total Revenue) x 100 Compensation - Total Cash Compensation (TCC) The sum of base compensation and incentive compensation, representing the total cash an employee earns each year.

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