...Negatives of a Pay Raise Cap Andrew Cursi 215 July 14, 2014 Daria Woodside Negatives of a Pay Raise Cap While the potential money saved by putting a cap on military pay raises might seem appealing, it would have a negative impact on the Armed Forces and their members. Putting a limit on military pay raises could and more than likely will affect how well the military recruits and retains members. Not only that, but it will have a direct impact on military members now and in their future. When a potential soldier, airman, sailor, or marine steps into a recruiter’s office, it is essentially like stepping onto a car dealer’s lot. They immediately start trying to sell the military to the potential recruit, informing them of all the pay and benefits that come along with being in the Armed Forces. One of those benefits is a steady pay raise each year to account for the increase in the cost-of-living. According to the Social Security Administration, the cost of living for the past three years has increased by 1.5%, 1.7%, and 3.6% for the years 2013, 2012, and 2011 respectively (Cost-of-Living Adjustments, n.d.). In the past, Congress has taken that increase in the cost-of-living into account and increased military pay accordingly. The military pay increases for the past three years were 1.7%, 1.6%, 1.4% for the years 2013, 2012, and 2011 respectively according to Navy CyberSpace (U.S Military Basic Pay History, 2014). So, with the exception of 2011 where the pay increase was...
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...programmes, wage incentive programmes and structured pay scale, the compensation task is even more difficult and challenging for an HR specialist. Employee compensation can affect their productivity and their tendency to stay with the organisation. The HR manager must ensure that the compensation policy does not lead to high staff turnover. Employees need for income and their desire to be fairly treated by the organisation make developing HR programmes important for Human Resource Department (HRD). Compensation of people at work has become one of the most demanding problems facing management in South Africa (SA) today. In the past, payment for work performed was simple and straightforward. Paying for work not performed, such as vacation was simply unheard by the management. For most parts the employer displayed a take it or leave it attitude when making pay offers to employees. Today the almost automatic increasing of employees’ salaries every 12 months or so is common practice. Although thing has change substantially, new and better ways of compensating people are needed in Human Resource Management (HRM). To understand the utility of broader construct for considering military and civilian pay comparability, it is necessary to consider how military service differs from employment in the civilian sector (Asch & Warner, 1994). A primary goal of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) compensation is to enable its military to meet its manning objective for the force size...
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...XIAMEN AIRLINES: PAY FOR PERFORMANCE Company Overview: Xiamen Airlines was established in July, 1984 jointly by CAAC and the Fujian Provincial government. By December 2013, its shareholders were china Southern Airlines Co. Ltd., Xiamen C&D corp. Ltd. And Jizhong energy Resources Co. Ltd with 51%, 34% and 15% of shares respectively. They are the only Chinese Airlines featuring all Boeing fleet, operating 102 fleet with 16,650 seats on 218 domestic routes and 26 International and regional routes. They are known for its excellent customer service and extraordinary safety performance. In 2014, Xiamen Airlines employees 11,000+ employees including 1000+ pilots. Airlines Industry in China: Strengths | Weakness | * Highest population in the world * Permitting the private sector to enter into the industry * Increase in Passenger traffic * Steady increase in the need for transportation within the country * Regulation for pilots to avoid them from switching the companies | * Huge investment * Very less players in the market | Opportunities | Threats | * Industry is growing 10 times faster than USA * The revenue passenger kilometer increased by 12% | * Hugh speed rail system development * Pilot shortage | Challenges faced by Xiamen Airlines: * High attrition rate of the pilots and switching to other airlines * Unequal pay system i.e. more pay for the foreign pilots and relatively lesser pay for the domestic pilots * Lack...
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...Army’s Method for Setting Pay and Granting Pay Raises Christine Rollins Webster University Abstract This paper explorers the methods that the Army uses for setting pay and granting pay raises. The basic pay that is received is based off of two things, the amount of time one has been in the service and the rank at which one hold. Outside of the basic pay there are also allowances and special pay that are included in the total compensation package. In regards to pay raises, there is an annual increase percentage which is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Cost Index and growth in private sector wages. Also, possible impact from the economy, along with possible recommendations for improvements for pay will be discussed. The Army’s Method for Setting Pay and Granting Pay Raises Army Pay There are several factors that are involved when exploring Army pay, such as whether Soldiers are active duty, reservist, national guard, or a retiree. For the purpose of consistency, this paper will focus on active duty pay, although most of the methods are used for all categories, except for minor difference. The Army is considered having two categories for pay: military pay and military allowance. First we will discuss pay. Pay provides Soldiers with the fiscal foundation of their military career. Pay is a monthly income that Soldiers receive based on the Soldier’s rank or pay grade and time in the military. There are 24 pay grades, which are broken down...
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...Military Compensation What is the Total Compensation? Before I take this course, I never even bother to try understanding the total compensation. While I am taking this course and learning the materials, I started to view and understand what could be the total compensation as part of the organization’s strategic planning in human resources management and operations. There are many ways to pay the compensation to its employees. Many people, especially the soldiers care about their base pay. If a soldier’s base pay is $18,000 a year then is it really less than a civilian who gets $20,000 a year as an individual’s total compensation? Most of soldiers and include myself didn’t understand the concept of “what is the Total Compensation.” After I learned this course, I started understand the total compensation and wanted to find out what actually the soldiers getting for their total compensation. The U.S. Army was established over 200 years and increased its size since then. The U.S. Army was founded on 14 June 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year. Active duty soldiers and activated Army Reserve soldiers earn Army basic pay. Basic pay is the soldiers’ base salary as a soldier on active duty and it counts only as part of your total income. It is distributed on the 1st and 15th of every month, similar to many civilian jobs. The Army’s basic pay is depends on how long the soldier enter the Army...
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...CONTENTS Your References ....................................................................... i Pay and Allowances ........................................................ 1 Basic Pay .................................................................... 1 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) ...................... 1 Housing Allowances .................................................... 2 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) .................... 3 Transit Housing Allowance (BAH-T) .................... 3 BAH Partial .......................................................... 3 BAH Differential (BAH-DIFF) ............................... 3 Family Separation Housing - BAH (FSH-B) ......... 4 Overseas Housing Allowance (OHA) .................. 4 Family Separation Housing - OHA (FSH-O) ........ 4 Assignment Incentive Pay (AIP) .................................. 5 Hardship Duty Pay – Location (HDP-L) ....................... 6 Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) ................................. 6 CONUS Cost of Living Allowance (CONUS COLA) ..... 6 Family Separation Allowance (FSA) ............................ 7 Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance (FSSA) . 7 Dislocation Allowance (DLA)........................................ 8 Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA) .......................... 8 Temporary Lodging Expense (TLE) ............................. 8 Adoption Reimbursement Expenses ............................ 9 Dental Insurance ......................................................
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...Nov. 4, 2015 Military recruiting in public schools Military recruitment has become an important issue. Often in the past some parents and teachers have protested about military personnel visiting schools to talk to students about the armed forces. But since 2001 the No Child Left behind Act has meant that US schools which receive government money must allow the military in to talk to students (Paton). One of the more common proposals is to ban military recruiting of those that are under 18, which would severely limit the ability of recruiters to operate. In the past years the USA and its allies have been involved in major conflicts. There are a lot questions and conflicts with this issue. The positive outcomes of recruitment will be strongly discussed. Do military recruiters provide valuable info? "Douglas Smith, a US Army spokesman, said the job of recruiters is not to make promises but to show...
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...in a Las Vegas poker game. In the national debate to date, some assume that immediate cuts will yield huge savings with little risk while others say that no more savings can be made without endangering America’s security. You need to frame this debate in a way that relates potential savings to capabilities and advances the nation’s understanding of national security in the coming decade. Recommendation: You should frame the debate as between two choices for U.S. defense policy. One approach would pursue relatively modest savings from additional efficiencies but stay within the parameters of existing national security strategy. The second approach would change that strategy in important ways, or otherwise seek fairly dramatic changes in how the Department of Defense goes about implementing its global responsibilities. Within that framing, you should argue for the first approach that, while difficult, is worth attempting given the nation’s fiscal plight. The risks associated with the second approach would not be worth the benefits. Background: The 10-year cuts already mandated from the 2011 Budget Control Act will reduce the budgets of the armed forces by $350 billion. These figures do not include war costs or Veterans Affairs budgets. Sequestration, like the Simpson-Bowles and Rivlin-Domenici deficit reduction commissions of 2010, would cut another $500 billion or so over ten years. Your administration’s current military plan incorporates those assumed cuts from the...
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...Equality: Too Much to Ask For? The Equal Rights Amendment has been the source of much debate for almost an entire century now. Since first purposed by Alice Paul in the 1920s one’s stance on the potential amendment has been a dividing factor in the political sphere. Though the amendment was shut down in the 1920s there has been discussion about adding the Equal Rights Amendment into the constitution today. If the potential amendment was to be brought back up my stance on the debate would be in support of the amendment. For some background on the debate on the Equal Rights Amendment it would be good to look back and see where activists in the past were split and what about the Equal Rights Amendment has divided them. The Antebellum era gave two different types of women activists, the true women and the Early Feminists. The True Women argued for gender distinctions, separate spheres, domesticity, and women as moral guardians in their natural role as a mother. The True Women would be the women who be apposed to the Equal Rights Amendment and would be active in the fight against it. Arguing against the True Women were the Early Feminists who stressed gender equality, suffrage for women, equal education, human rights, and saw women as rational beings. This group of activists would be in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Next would be the Progressive era where the two parties in the debate would be the Early Feminists and the Female Reformists. The Early Feminists argued for...
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...The increasing national debt is of great concern to our economy and to our nation. There have been debates about which tax policy to use and I believe that the progressive tax that we have is the right option. Besides the tax policy, government spending is also a major factor that increases the national debt. We have to choose where the money should go to make sure we keep the debt down. Last year 53.71% of the discretionary spending went to the military and I feel that we need to reduce that and put the money towards education. I believe that the public would agree with my plan to go with the progressive tax and also my plan of decreasing spending on military to increase spending on education. The progressive tax policy takes a larger percentage of income from high-income earners compared to low-income individuals. This tax will help our economy by making sure that even low income earners will have income left behind to spend on goods and services. The consumption tax would lead to less demand for goods and services which would not help our economy. When consumers see that the product price is very high they would choose to save instead of spending their money. Flat tax is an unfair way to tax the public even though it proposes that everyone pay the same rate. This would hurt low income earners because...
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...physically straining. When a country goes to war it depends on its military to be up for any challenge war has to offer. 50 years ago the thought of a woman joining the ranks were laughable; today it is a reality. Women have proved that they can doubtfully be called the weaker gender, and recently have been able to serve in combat roles. Combat roles are the most dangerous and physically demanding roles the United States military has to offer. When a soldier signs up for this role they understand that they will be put on the frontline and in the line of fire from the enemy. Nature has made women physically weaker and less durable than men. A highly trained woman cannot match a man in physical strength. I served proudly alongside women for ten years in the military, but I strongly believe that they should not be able to serve in combat roles in the United States. Having them serve in such roles can have negative effects on them and the men that they serve with; lower standards, health issues, and possible harassment situations. When women were allowed into the military many of the army standards were either lowered or vanish completely. According to head officials at West Point Academy, Cadets no longer run in boots due to the fact women were suffering from a high rate of injury (Knight, 1991). Physical training test scores were adjusted because women could not meet the basic physical requirements to stay into the military. Due to the decrease in standards today’s soldiers have become...
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...Policeman of the World Laura Ortega Strayer University LaRonda Pondexter Contemporary U.S History 12/21/13 Policeman of the World It is common knowledge that by the 20th century, the United States had become the dominant force in international relations. Some have argued that the United States' military functions as the world's police. For centuries United States has been found as the world's policeman regardless if they were asked for the help or not. In this paper I will highlight two instances in which United States intervene in an international matter. Also I will identify what prompted America to become a dominant force after World War II and what were the differences in the foreign policy before and after the war. Throughout the history United States has come across a lot of different situations in which we are either pushed to declare war against another country because we were threatened or we do it because we feel the necessity to save that other country from their enemy. Probably one of the biggest instances was after the September 11 terrorist attack in New York city. After this happened president Bush sent out troops to Afghanistan and declare war against them. In another note a more recent event was the Libyan attack known as: Operation Odyssey Dawn. It's only purpose was to enforce a no-fly zone and to prevent the Libyan's from attacking their own citizens. In 2012 troops were deployed to the border of Jordan and Syria to help contain the...
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...| Debate Paper | Are professional athletes overpaid compared to other leading occupations? | Joe Harris | XBCOM/275 | 5/19/2014 | Introduction A. Are professional athletes overpaid? B. Professional athletes are not overpaid Body A. Comparison of athletes salaries to that of other major professions B. Professional athletes are making too much money (Opposing Argument) C. Reason #1 D. Reason #2 E. Reason #3 Conclusion A. Conclusion B. Restated Argument C. Lead-out Everyone loves to watch sports, well almost everyone. I know that I do, but it seems to me that fans debate on who the best teams and players are, in any of the multiple major sports associations, year in and year out but the one question that has never been answered is, are these athletes being overpaid? Now for the sake of this particular debate I have chosen to compare athletes in all of the major sports compensation to that of someone who is considered to hold a more prestigious role in society. Professional athlete’s compensation does not just stem from the money that they receive via contract from their leagues, but also from the endorsement deals that are signed with other companies. Keeping that in mind, here is a list of the top 5 highest paid professional athletes: 1. Tiger Woods (Golf) with an annual salary of $78.1 million, in which $65 million comes from endorsement deals and $13.1 million from his respective employer the P.G...
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...law and subject to the same laws as all other adults. They can vote legally or sign contracts and even join the military as a matter of fact they can do anything any other adult can do except for drinking alcohol. Because of the high death rate associated with alcohol among people in the age range of sixteen to twenty year olds, lawmakers began discussing adjusting the minimum age. The idea was not welcomed by everybody however, "It just doesn't sit right with me that people [at the age of 18] have the right to do everything else, including serve their country, but don't have the right to consume alcohol," state Rep. Richard Marron said. "It's a form of age discrimination."( Chiappetta, A. 2005.) Is it fair that they can be an adult, fighting for our country but not be able to drink like one? In this paper I give my personal experience and view both sides of the issues in the subject of soldiers drinking alcohol under the age of twenty one. Either way that you look at it, the current laws prevent under age drinking of alcohol in the military as a standard rule. In the early eighties though it was not the same as it is now and the laws were different. Before the national campaign against drunk driving was put into place the legal age for consumption of alcohol was different in each state with the lowest age being eighteen in some states and the military rule was that the soldier would comply with the state laws or host country's consumption laws. When I was a teen...
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...which will result in a negative outcome. Today we are faced with many ethical dilemmas that force us to examine the situation and surrounding events in depth to discover a better way of doing things. One such ethical dilemma is the legal age to vote in elections. The Constitution The twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees every American “the right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age” (The National Constitution Center, n.d.). In America the legal adult age is considered 18 years. As an adult, an 18 year old will pay taxes on income he or she has earned. They pay sales tax on items they have purchased. They are old enough to drive a car and to join the military. These are the arguments many have given in favor of lowering the voter legal age form 18 years to 16 years, but there is another side to the story – one of opposition to lowering the age and in favor of returning the legal age to voting rights to 21 years of age as originally set forth by the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution was adopted in 1789, at which time voting was reserved for male property owners ages 21 and older. The Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870 gave voting rights to all males over the age of 21, while the 19th Amendment finally extended voting rights to women. In 1971 the legal voting age was dropped to 18 by the ratification...
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