Hi Sridhar,
I know you are the right person to ask all my queries regarding wage and salary administration. Generally, our approach is to design a structure that is best for the employee as well as the organization. To maintain uniformity at different levels, we do set standards, for example, the grade system.
What factors should we consider while designing the salary structure? And what are the latest permissible limits of various allowances? I don't know how to write all my queries; in one line, I will say, consider me a layman and please explain in such a way that I can say I am confident in this field.
While I was in India, I never had any stress as we had preset standards to fix salaries at various levels, and we just followed that chart. But the important issue is how to do all this and that too without committing any legal violations.
Thanks,
Bibhutosh