HR Besties: Pay Transparency
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Listener Bestie story
- Cringe corporate speak: Thought Leader
- Hot topic: All things pay transparency
- What does it look like?
- Consequences, consequences...
- Pay disparity
- Pay transparency can benefit the organization
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | I have a story from an HR Besties listener. |
| 0:08.0 | This listener thought that we would love this story. |
| 0:12.0 | And actually, she corrected and said, well, probably not love, but it's one of those HR nightmare experiences. |
| 0:19.0 | So in her previous role, and I'll just switch to I, I was head of people |
| 0:23.6 | for a startup. Red flag number one, I know. And those who have been in that role will know. |
| 0:29.3 | I was on maternity leave with my first child, which was six weeks that I had to lobby for. |
| 0:34.7 | When I got a call from some of my department heads that the CEO had announced |
| 0:39.6 | company-wide layoffs, which is quite the surprise when you're head of people and you're on |
| 0:45.0 | leaving. You find out after this happened, right? As the HR bestie I am, I emailed the CEO and |
| 0:51.6 | COO that I would like to come back early from leave if they were going to do layoffs to aid the teams and put together severance packages. |
| 0:59.0 | I think this HR bestie is Jamie, right? |
| 1:01.3 | Oh my God. |
| 1:02.5 | The CEO then set up an eight-minute meeting with me. |
| 1:06.1 | Eight minutes. |
| 1:07.0 | That's all they had. |
| 1:08.6 | Eight-minute management and laid me off. Instead, with no severance, no insurance. |
| 1:15.9 | While she was out on leave. |
| 1:16.9 | No insurance continuation. And truly no empathy for the breadwinning four-week postpartum |
| 1:23.4 | mother that she just shocked with the news. That alone is a nightmare, but then the CEO proceeded |
| 1:29.1 | to lay off other staff members and go to a conference to speak about how the company had to |
| 1:35.2 | eradicate the toxic cancers of the organization. Oh my God. When truly, all layoffs were high-performing |
| 1:42.2 | employees. Not done yet. after ramping up my social media |
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