PAY & BENEFITS • Mar 2019 • Volume 8 / Number 5
Compensation trends into the 21st century
During the Second World War, the War Labor Board controlled increases in cash wages in order to limit inflationary pressures from competition in the labor force.[1] This encouraged employers to use employee benefits as a form of noninflationary compensation.
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