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Is it normal/legal in Germany for employer to withhold salary until work equipment is returned?
Yes, this is legal.
I don't know whether it is normal, but since you seem to have some problems with your employer and apparently did not arrange the return of your equipment in time, it seems the ...
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Extremely high expectations from my employer but extremely low salary, how do I deal with this issue?
Initial agreements are hard to renegotiate
First negotiations are a big deal when working at a company. Choosing to have a the hard conversation at the start of the business relationship establishes ...
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Extremely high expectations from my employer but extremely low salary, how do I deal with this issue?
You took a new job and made some mistakes at the start, it happens.
While, as other said, you shouldn't try to use your coworkers salary as leverage, you can try to find the differences between you ...
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Extremely high expectations from my employer but extremely low salary, how do I deal with this issue?
Right off the bat - don't use other people's salary as leverage. It's fine to compare to get an idea for how your compensation stacks up, but making that comparison with your employer will usually not ...
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Extremely high expectations from my employer but extremely low salary, how do I deal with this issue?
You were new and had no idea what your worth is. It happens, good lesson to learn. Now that you have a good comparison of someone else in your role at your company, you should go to your manager, ...
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Salary at workplace
Each individual is providing a value exchange with whomever they choose to work with. In the same way people can sell things online for different prices, workers can choose to offer their services for ...
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Salary at workplace
Depending on the Factors, it can be fair
At the heart of the question is whether or not the additional tenure grants the employee in regards to the employer any advantages.
Consider two jobs:
1: a ...
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Salary at workplace
Compensation should be based on the value the employee brings to the company. This can be based on experience, skills, market and job functions.
If two people are doing the same job but one has more ...
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Salary at workplace
Sometimes it's fair, other times it's not, but fairness is not a business need. Life in general is often unfair. Length of tenure is only one of a number of unfair factors which vary from locale to ...
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Salary at workplace
Yes it's definitely fair in an economical sense..
Consider one aspect that hasn't been mentioned:
There are economical mechanisms called inflation and wage growth - both can stimulate each other.
This ...
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Salary at workplace
I would define "fair" as "paid according to the value they bring to the company" - hence if two people are doing a job at the same level, they should be paid the same.
This is much ...
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Salary at workplace
Businesses are not there to pay fair wages/salaries - apart from not having objective criteria for fairness, businesses try to get their work done for a minimum amount of money, either to maximize ...
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