Pension Plans, Overtime Pay, Basic Wages & Deferred Pay
specified to address the many obstacles employees faced with pension plan
funding? How did the Pension Protection Act add additional requirements to the
protection of these plans?
2. Why has weighted deferred wage increase averages
continued to fall since the 1990s? What is your opinion on the fact that unions
had little in the way of bargaining successes in this new era of hard times for
labor?
3. What are the standard rules of overtime pay? Provide
examples of why it is not always simple to administer. Address issues such as
double pay, pyramiding, compulsory overtime, and fair distribution.
4. What is the concept of comparative norm in determining
the basic wage rate? Why there are limitations to this approach? What has led
companies to grant various forms of individual treatment to companies?
Sloane, A. A., & Witney, F. (2010). Labor relations
(13th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.





