Even with such approval, flexible pay can only rise to twice the level of fixed salary.
Flexible pay is intended to motivate people, make them emotionally tied to and proud of their firms, and prevent them from leaving.
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However, this does not mean that the flexible pay system that banks have grown to use (i.e. their bonus system) is a smart way of rewarding people.
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On the other hand such workers may be more flexible on pay, particularly if employers are willing to offer part-time work, which many older people prefer.
Hours are flexible, pay will increase as the business builds.
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Where organisation becomes more flexible, pay will eventually follow.
Similarly, workers could simply choose a job with more flexible hours and less pay.
According to Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, the spread of profit-related pay and flexible working hours has enabled firms to adjust quickly to slowing demand with far fewer lay-offs than would have occurred in past downturns.
He told the Times that the way that unions had worked with management to back pay cuts and flexible working as an alternative to job losses was a "miracle".
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Employers are to be forced to allow mothers to work flexible hours, and the state will pay the school fees of second children.
For instance, did you know that Obama wants a cap on Flexible Savings Accounts that many use to pay for care for their special needs children?
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You get tremendous job security, a flexible schedule, intellectually stimulating work and decent pay.
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And use your employer's flexible-spending benefit, so you can pay for uncovered medical expenses with pretax dollars.
The OER Foundation, Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand), the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada) are collaborating in this project as founding anchor partners to provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit.
If his department had to pay for those lost sales it would be amazing how flexible inspection hours would become.
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The top 20 or so funds, including Citadel, have the reputation (and pay big enough fees) to negotiate hard for more flexible financing arrangements.
During the debate, QC and independent crossbencher Lord Pannick branded the scheme "unrealistic" and warned it would be "damaging to industrial harmony to allow employers to buy off basic employment rights" such as the right to statutory redundancy pay and the right for parents and other carers to request flexible working.
Under normal circumstances (meaning reasonably flexible markets and reasonably high employment), employers gauge how much they are willing to pay someone to do a particular job.
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Those jobs not only boost their pay sharply, says Mrs Davis, but also provide better health insurance and schedules flexible enough to let them care for their children more easily.
Encourage flexible Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) so that someone making the decisions Androes made will have cash available to pay for care when they decide the cost is worth bearing.
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The consortium said it wanted to provide an affordable pay, terms and conditions system that recognised and rewarded performance, while promoting greater productivity and creating a flexible workforce that was "fit for purpose in the modern NHS".
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