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Welcome to the Pay Matters blog.

Pay Matters is a Human Resources Management Solutions provider located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that offers a comprehensive range of affordable, high quality, legally compliant, and reliable Human Resources, Labour Relations and Payroll solutions to all employers.

To learn more about the services Pay Matters offers and how we can assist you, please visit our website www.paym.co.za

Pay Matters is committed to assist employers gain or maintain their competitive advantage through the effective management of their human resources.

This blog has been created to enable its followers to share information and best practice on topics that affect employee and organisational performance, and to inform HR practitioners/business owners/managers on pertinent people management or legislative matters that impact on their organisations, and to allow them to post comments or queries on specific challenges they may experience.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy the content. You are welcome and encouraged to contribute to the discussions, and to share the content with your family, friends and colleagues.

Kind regards
George

Monday 28 April 2014

All you need to know about writing legally compliant and effective Job Descriptions

Job Descriptions are an essential component of people management, yet their importance is often overlooked.
An organisation can enjoy many benefits if their job descriptions are designed to present job related information in a structured manner.
This presentation seeks to provide an overview of a process to create legally compliant and effective job descriptions.


Monday 4 November 2013

Strategic Remuneration - Using remuneration to enhance business performance

Strategic Remuneration
1.      Introduction:
Numerous influences, both good and bad, have led to dynamic developments within the remuneration discipline, as well as other aspects of conducting business.
A number of philosophies and strategies have been applied in businesses in order to become a "world player", or perhaps even in some cases, just to ensure the survival of the business.
Historically these have included downsizing, flattening and re-organising, but the most recent, and also perhaps the most successful, has been "re-engineering", which many large organisations have implemented with some success.
I say "some success" not because re-engineering has failed, but because it has been determined that re-engineering that does not reduce costs and increase performance, productivity and output, adds no value to the organisation or its employees.
Attaining acceptable levels of productivity has long been a problem, and in recent times, the focus has been on methods to encourage performance and productivity by means of compensation.
Previously this thinking was taboo. "Why pay an employee more for something they are paid to do anyway?” It is necessary to revisit this stance, as performance based compensation offers many benefits for both the employee and the organisation, and has been applied successfully in many organisations.

Wednesday 23 October 2013

EEA Amendments. The pain is about to begin! Is your business ready?

Overview of the changes made to section 6 of the Employment Equity Act that are going to expose all employers with 2 or more employees to additional risk.

Lots of attention has been given to the changes to the Act that are aimed at curtailing the activities of labour brokers, to the extent that these changes have been mostly overlooked, yet the real challenge for most employers who are not labour brokers will stem from these amendments.

These changes will also affect you if you do use the services of a labour broker, in which case the strategy you will need to follow will differ somewhat from that suggested in the presentation.

Watch the slideshow and learn about these changes and how they can harm your business.
Suggestions are made as to what you should do as soon as possible to mitigate the risk you could face.

Your comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome.
Enjoy
George