Salary

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Salary transparency could fix the UK's pay gaps (Financial Times)

Companies that include salary ranges in job listings receive more applicants and hire more quickly.

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Salary Continuation: Are salary continuation plans subject to ERISA? (MARCA.com)

As highlighted above a salary continuation plan refers to a written agreement between an employer and an employee, whereby the employer lays out a contingency ...

It is important to note however that employees are usually divided into classes. For a salary continuation plan to be valid, the agreement must be in place before the injury occurs. If you're lucky, your company has enrolled you in a salary continuation scheme, whereby an agreement is in place for you or your family to receive either a percentage or your salary in full following the incident.

'Just stay in your job, collect your salary': Cafe owner warns others ... (AsiaOne)

Are you passionate about food and itching to start your own business in Singapore? One local F&B business owner is here to burst your bubble.

"For every eight new restaurants formed… Friends-themed cafe Central Perk Cafe too, will be closing in March, after opening to much fanfare in 2016. "You know the dead bodies on Mount Everest, over 200 of them? "Just stay in your job, that's the safest option out there," he reiterated, noting that while the average salaryman would "unlikely be rich", "the benefit of having a job is you will not be poor". "You are only a businessman if you know how to create jobs for people, pay them salaries, and then you pull yourself out of the picture", according to Yong Wei. "One out of the 10" could be a flourishing business, shared Yong Wei, before proclaiming it to be "quite rare".

Singapore's junior public sector doctors get up to 13% bump in ... (CNA)

SINGAPORE: Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) has raised the starting pay for public sector junior doctors and will introduce a new allowance for doing ...

Public sector junior doctors, dentists get starting pay rise of up to 13 ... (The Straits Times)

Salaries for doctors and dentists were last raised in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An earlier review in 2022 led to revised allowance rates for full calls and half calls. From Feb 1, the emergency department and night float allowance for all doctors across MOHH and public healthcare clusters will also be revised. The spokesman said: “The Ministry of Health, together with MOH Holdings (MOHH) and the public healthcare clusters, regularly review and ensure that the salaries of doctors and dental officers in the public healthcare system are competitive.”

Replace skilled jobs list with minimum salary for better overseas ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Employers want jobs lists that decide which skilled migrants can come to Australia to be scrapped for high-income earners to give businesses an edge in the ...

[Rachel Clun](/by/rachel-clun-hvf36)is an economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House in Canberra.Connect via Grattan Institute economic policy program director Brendan Coates said the system was slow and cumbersome, due in part to having three different occupation lists. The ACTU also wants more stringent labour market testing before a business can recruit from overseas. When combined with outdated job classifications, employers faced limited access to global talent, the “The challenge is to attract people to the country, and the best way to do that is to have a visa system that doesn’t get in the way.” The review is examining how to streamline the system, but will not cover offshore processing or Operation Sovereign Borders.