Box 2

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Sample recommendations for salary increases and salary "action tickets," with memos and examination of salary scales elsewhere for comparable work

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Debates, advice, and legal opinions regarding compliance with minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act and who was exempt. A tabulation of all Chicago Tribune employees below the administrative level, by department

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Documents and newsletters regarding complance. Special problems that arose

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Correspondence 1970/1977 regarding vacations for part-time employees, and during 1980 for re-hired employees

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Turnover audit: analysis by department of the rate of employee turnover and the reasons for it

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Analysis of reasons for recent terminations and eligibility for severance pay. Examples of termination notices

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Employee relations files, chiefly job applications and routine "tickets" for salary increases. Only a sampling of the available materials was brought to the Tribune Company Archives for preservation. The principal interest of these materials lies not in the individuals, but in company policies and procedures with respect to such things as salary determination, salary increases, severance pay, vacations, time cards, pensions and other retirement benefits.Members of the employee...

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Lists of employees working part-time after age 65, with information on pensions

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Monthly reports on the activities of the compensation division. Index of files. Office organization. Miscellaneous correspondence about the handling of subpoenas and other matters

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Memo about its performance

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Including memos among Hunt, Lifvendahl, Clayton Kirkpatrick (editor and then president of the Chicago Tribune), and Ron Musil regarding the procedure for approving salary increases