merit

Examples of merit in the following topics:

• Introduction

  • Framing the structure and content of business ethics is a presumptuous undertaking, but one I believe to have real merit.

• Pay Systems

  • The variable portion varies for each worker depending upon his merit rating and the cost-of-living index.
  • During the late-2000s financial crisis, some law firms began replacing the lockstep system with "merit-based" systems.The lockstep system of compensation has the benefit of being easy to administer, reducing internal competition within firms, and maintaining a single company philosophy.

• Equal Pay Act

  • "No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs, the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii)a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex. "

• Write Productively-Part I

  • Even if they're not as plentiful or momentous as Newton's, the good thoughts we occasionally stumble across in newspapers and magazines merit holding onto.

• Good News from Sioux Falls

  • It flattered me to think that perhaps I didn't look old enough to merit special treatment for being elderly.