1. Contextual Influences on Compensation Practice
Chapter #3

2. Compensation and the social good
What does the term social good mean?
Employers Goals #48
Employees Goals
Governments Goals

3. The Law

4. The Constitution Article 1 Section 8 First Amendment Fifth Amendment
Congress has power to regulate trade
First Amendment
Freedom of speech
Fifth Amendment
No one shall be deprived of life and liberty
Thirteenth Amendment
Freed slaves
Fourteenth Amendment
No state abridgement of freedoms.

5. Three Branches
Legislative branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch

6. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)
Minimum Wage
Overtime Pay
Child Labor protection
Enforced by the US Department of Labor
Class Exercise
Look www. FLSA.gov
Find the most common mistakes that you have observed in your experience

7. Fair Play Rules

8. Portal to Portal Act
Defines the meaning of the terms “hours worked”

9. Review from earlier classes
Equal Pay Act 1963
Compensable Factors
Comparable Worth
McNamara Service Contract Act
Defines the word “contractor”
Bennett Amendment
Allows employees to charge employers with Title VII violations
Pay Discrimination Civil Right Act
Disparate Treatment
Disparate Impact
Executive Order
Affirmative Action

10. More Review #62 Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1978
American With Disabilities Act 1990
Family Medical Leave Act 1993
Davis Bacon Act 1931
Walsh Healey Public Contracts Act 1936

11. Laws That Guide Discretionary Employee Benefits #63
Internal Revenue Code (Taxes)
Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA)
Nondiscrimination rules
Highly compensated employee rules

12. Contextual Influences on the Federal Government as an Employer #67
Executive Order
Prohibits discrimination; race4, color, religion, sex, etc/.
Executive Order
Prohibits employment of non residence of USA in civil service
The Rehabilitation Act
The Viet Nam Veterans Readjustment Act
Government Employee Rights Act
Family and Medical Leave Act

13. Labor Unions As Contextual Influences #68
Reduced influence of National Labor Relations Act l935
7.4 % in private sector
Government workers %
15 million workers in all in US are in unions
Right to Collective bargaining
Spillover effect
Concessionary Bargaining

14. Market Influences

15. More Benefits Laws for Review
Employee Income Retirement Act (ERISA)
vesting
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPPA)
Pension Protection Act (PBGC)