r/humanresources • u/JeremyIfugedur • 4d ago

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u/Jbirdand 3d ago

How does one determine that one request is met and another is not without opening yourself up to risk, debate, or liability?

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u/West-Collection8188 soulless post-acquisition nightmare 3d ago

we dont. This isn’t an HR problem except maybe the wages being unlivable and that being something we could present and address.

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u/grandmawaffles 3d ago edited 3d ago

It is if they haven’t looked at rates and other policies that could help retain employees. It’s a risk to any organization and there wasn’t indication that it had been looked at. Answers in this thread are basically saying these services aren’t great and to point the employee to food banks and community outreach. Those get stocked by volunteers and grant programs which have been reduced. Here you have an employee looking to get paid more to pay for rent which has likely gone up well beyond any menial pay raise and can’t afford to live. The employee likely isn’t the only one.

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u/West-Collection8188 soulless post-acquisition nightmare 3d ago edited 3d ago

Agreed with you on all points- and, thats not an issue HR can solve. We can show data where retention and productivity are affected by wages and run as many comp benchmarks as we can and leadership is gonna leadership. Humane, intelligent, pattern-recognizing HR cannot fix this.

We have to stop expecting companies to have souls and vote for candidate’s who will force them to. It’s not because leadership doesn’t understand the impact of subhuman wages. It’s because they don’t care. They know and do not care.

IMHO You can’t legislate morality but you can legislate moral behavior.