Saw these meetings pop up on my section head and supervisors calendars. Haven’t seen anyone mention them yet, is this prep for lower than expected raises or just a general prep on how to deliver it? Genuinely curious
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Discussing salary and working conditions with your co-workers is protected in the US by the National Labor Relations Act. If your supervisor tells you not to talk about your raise or salary, tell them they are violating the law. No idea if the same protection is offered in other countries.
You forgot the most important step. 4. tell the employee not to discuss their raise with anyone. If we get raises it would make a good post on this board.
One has to love the official sticky note presentation
Instructions:
- Write the increase amount down on a sticky note
- Write the new salary down on the same sticky note
- Hand it to the employee
This year supervisors were not directly involved in salary planning. These meetings used to happen September/ October to inform supervisors. This year supervisors have no control on raises all decided by HR and formulas.
Yeah the have to keep the monkeys/inmates calm. Otherwise we will have planet of the apes rebellion. Riots, rebellion or unrest they don't want. So get ready for the lies and story about the company still recovering. Unless you are a fav or High performer.
I attended the meeting. It seemed to have a few purposes:
- Create consistency in the message given to personnel (fair enough)
- Allow supervisors with a heads up to prepare for expected conversations (the salary treatments are expected to be ready around Dec 1, so communication prior to the holiday, and the effective date of Jan 1, would need to be soon thereafter)
- Provide supervisors with the background for how "the numbers" were chosen, e.g. benchmarking, percentages for US/DS/GSC, performance impacts, etc. (hopefully every supervisor shares it with their team)
But surprisingly with all the communications to the supervisor, in most cases your supervisor just come to you and tell you your increase (unless 0%, then they will not communicate it)...there is no further explanation...so what a waste of time of supervisors attending all those sessions...(maybe pretending to be busy)
It is difficult to figure out how to communicate, so it’s always good to have a prep meeting
This is an every year thing. They always try to make sure the message is consistent coming from the supervisors / managers.